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Strange behavior with mom's computer
Hey all,
My mom was having regular troubles with her computer over the last few months. It was always running very slow, like when you would click on the internet browser icon it would take about 30 seconds to open the browser. I did every scan possible and found nothing and finally just decided to take it home and reinstall Windows 7 from scratch from the recovery partition.
This went just fine and I followed it up with removing all of the extra unneeded software that came with the computer 4 years ago and installing anti-virus. Got that all done, did all Windows updates and it ran fine. Later that day I ran it over to her house and got everything hooked up and guess what? It dragged butt again just like before. I checked the task manager and at times it showed 100% CPU usage with no additional applications open.
So I decided to take it back home and do some more investigating. Well when it get it connected up here it runs just fine. So it seems that there is something strange going on when it's connected at her house, but what could it be? Her internet is wired, mine is wireless, and I am using a different monitor and mouse here but could any of that make a difference? Could lower voltage at the outlet cause this? Her computer was fine for years though with all of the same devices connected though.
Any ideas what to look for?