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General poor performance, pinwheel of death, freezing
I've had my laptop serviced a couple of months ago, and last week ran a full Defraggler scan.
However my computer continues to have poor performance. The only programs I have running are:
Kaspersky Total Security
Malwarebytes Premium
CCleaner
Misc. Toshiba/Microsoft background tasks
I only have two programs running at any one time, which 9/10 is Photoshop Elements and a Windows Explorer window, maybe one Firefox tab. Otherwise I run Outlook, Microsoft OneNote + Word, OR Adobe Acrobat DC Pro + Word. I never have any of these running all at once. I also scan documents and comics/art a lot with my Canon flatbed or my Brother duplex scanner. I do use iTunes often for my Apple stuff but nothing else is open at that time.
Regardless, if I try to highlight a folder or an item in a window, I get the blue pinwheel of death and my system will hang or freeze for perhaps five minutes before it will let me delete, copy/paste, or do whatever to the highlighted item. It will also hang during boot up and sometimes I have to force-shutdown or my computer will never actually boot up.
What can I do to fix this? Do I need to post my system's specs? I have no viruses, trojans, or malware. I don't do heavy things like gaming, video editing, or website/flash/illustrator design.
My Toshiba laptop did have 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD when I initially bought it a year ago.
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