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PC "Not Responding" - Blue spinning circle
New member so sorry if this has already been discussed.
I've been all over the internet looking at how to resolve intermittent (every 2-3 minutes) slow responses on my Acer laptop that I've had for over a year. 4 weeks ago I had no problems with it. Since then, the internet window I'm on freezes, goes white and says "not responding". I thought it was Firefox at first so I uninstalled but it's the same with Chrome and IE too.
Equally if I browse photos, they take forever to load.
I hadn't installed anything new or updated anything when the problem occurred so I have done the following to try and resolve (all found on the internet)...
- Checked the processes running... max cpu 1%... memory 30% - nothing out of the ordinary at all
- Rolled back to the previous system restore point - no joy
- Updated my Intel graphics drivers
- Checked that there were no issues in device manager
- Run check disk and other tools to confirm drive is sound (it is)
- Defragged the drive
- Done a virus scan and spyware scan
- Run several regfix tools that allegedly speed up your computer (free and purchased)
- Reinstalled firefox and set max network connections to 42 (from 255)
- Stopped everything from starting up in MSConfig (eg spyware and virus checkers, adobe etc etc etc)
- Searched and removed a particular string in the registry (though I cannot remember what that was - sorry - but it did make sense at the time
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Alas nothing seems to work. I have seen reports of this all over and have tried everything I can find. The only thing I haven't done that has been suggested is an install/repair as I haven't the disk to do it with (the OS is OEM on the drive and you can only do a full restore which is a last resort).
Has anyone else got some ideas. I have checked the threads but most seem to point at failing drives which is very unlikely as I cannot find an error.
Many thanks in advance!
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