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Laptop suddenly having terrible performances - very slow
Hello,
as of Sunday morning, my laptop has been performing terribly and running rather slow as compared to last week.
I woke up Sunday morning, played a few games and noticed a few freezes, which prompted me into restarting my laptop. I was confronted with a hanging welcome screen which lead me to booting it up on safe mode & scanning with both AVG and Malwarebytes.
Nothing was found fortunately so I booted it up normally but instead of a hanging welcome screen, there was a black screen with just a moving cursor after the login screen for about 15 minutes.
I thought I'd be fine afterwards, but my laptop was performing like it was Sunday morning. I couldn't watch a video for over 20 minutes/do anything without my browser freezing up/something later. I checked my task manager and nothing was out of ordinary - CPU usage was about 10% and physical memory was about 50-60% (basically how it normally is).
Intel Core i5 m560 2.67 GHz
Windows 7 64bit
4gb of RAM (was 2gb but I bought another 2gb stick)
-Currently scanning via Malwarebytes in normal mode-