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Win7 very slow and getting worse, what to do??
I have Acer Aspire 5742 with win 7 64 bit with 6 GB RAM and i5 M480 processor. 640 GB HDD and about 120GB left free.
The computer is getting very slow, to the point that I am thinking to wipe everything out and install Win XP since I have PCs with Win XP few years old and they never got this bad but if I can improve win7 on this PC and learn something in the process it would be great. I first noticed that Internet explorer is getting slow and freezes sometimes but now starting and running anything is slow, even stuff like 'My Computer' takes while to start up and is slow while running as well.
I have Avira Antivirus and Malware Bytes and scans are done on regular basis as well as defragmentation done once a week.
So far I have also tried to do selective boot up with only Microsoft services starting to see if any of the background programs causes the issues but it did not make any difference. I have also tried using Google Chrome to see if maybe this wold run faster but it is slow too.
Can anyone give me some starting points what to look for or maybe which software tools to use to give it better performance?
Thanks in advance for your time.