Win 7 slowed to a crawl


  1. Posts : 6
    windows 7
       #1

    Win 7 slowed to a crawl


    My system has slowed to a crawl (and rebooting makes no difference). Every mouse click takes anything between 10 and 60 seconds

    to get a response and most programmes state 'not responding'.

    When I boot into Safe Mode it's fine, so I'm guessing it's not a hardware problem. I tried rolling back to a system restore point

    just before some software and updates were installed (they were updates to Acrobat Reader plus installs of a You Tube downloader

    and a Video Format Comverter) but it makes no difference.

    I tried looking at the Event Viewer but couldn't make much sense of it.

    Presumably, if I can start in Safe Mode and then gradually add whatever else loads I can find the culprit - but how do I go about

    doing that?

    Don't know if it's relevant but Windows Explorer keeps falling over (which it seems to do a lot) and Kaspersky Anti_Virus was

    reporting a database corruption, but it now seems to have recovered form that since I rolled back to the restore point - though

    unfortunately it wont run in safe mode.
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Run a anti virus scan.

    Download this and run it, too


    Malwarebytes.org

    Then try a repair install, I will get you the instructions from excellent tutorial collection.

    Repair Install

    If you can get to this point, this will be a big help. But try the above first

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
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