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Sudden, massive drop in RAM performance
Hello all!
I've had a fairly powerful Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit since christmas, but recently decided I'd like a little more power out of it. I followed a fairly routine number of minor adjustments to the appearance, startup programs, and background services, but found that when I was done, my hard drive was moving files at no faster than 5 megabytes per second, sometimes dropping below 1. I went through the changes I'd made, and not seeing anything that might have caused the problem, tried restoring the system to a previous point... unfortunately, there wasn't an available restore point far back enough, and when the deed was done, the problem remained.
I'm hoping this is something simple; something that I clicked and didn't intend to.
This is rendering a very powerful computer that I rely on in my day to day life nearly useless. Please respond quickly if you have any sense of what might be causing this.