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Windows 7 gets slow even after formatting.
Ok, I got quite a big problem that's been going on for quite a lot of time now (more than one year probably). My PC looks fine for like 1 hour of formatting, after that, it gets slow "in the same way".
Like it will lag a bit when I open a program (or switch between programs), it will get real slow when I boot it (around 3 mins with just avast internet security launching during start-up).
Another slow happens when I launch outlook.com to check my mails, it will 'load' for like 10 seconds after the page has actually loaded before I can start checking my e-mails, and this is not an internet speed problem, the page loads, but seems to kind of be getting ready to load the e-mails, which doesn't happen in that 1 first hour after I've formatted my PC.
Then, when there are flash contents in my firefox, firefox gets totally slow.
Another big problem is multi-tasking. If I'm installing something, it will be almost impossible to do something else.
I installed ubuntu a couple of months ago, and I only kept it for a week, but it never got slow, while with windows 7 it gets slow almost immediately. Now I could try to test dual-booting with XP to see if XP will get slow or not, because honestly I'm clueless as to what could the problem actually be.
During hard work, my (CPU I think) will make this 'grgrgrgrgrgrgr' noise which makes it look really stressed.
I would like to say that my pc is 'a bit' old (bought it almost 4 years ago), but when I first bought it, none of these problems happened, and I used windows 7 back then, so maybe it is from old age.
Bottom line, anyone got any ideas or suggestions to try, I'm out of ideas and I don't think it's normal for a PC to be that slow, given that it was not like that when I first bought it.
I'm posting a SS below with how my CPU is working during an installation and my PC basic hardware info.