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Windows 7 SLOOWWWWWW please help
Hi all, so ive been searching my butt off for the last few days on ho to fix this problem and ive tried many many things that people have done that fixed what seemed to be a similar issue but to no avail myself.
first heres my setup
HP dv2025nr
500gb hd
512MB ram (447MB useable)
AMD 64 X2 1.60GHz
Windows 7 pro 32 bit
(i think thats what u needed...)
First off im not computer savvy at all so please use stupid people terms cuz thats what i understand :) thanks
bare with me here its a long story...
thanks
So heres the problem, i bought the computer in 2006, had windows xp worked great for 3 years then i got a virus that fried my hard drive. So i got a new hard drive with 500GB and had an OEM Windows 7 disk installed, it never let me register it with the key that came with it im assuming because its an OEM disk. But it ran fine for a few months any way it just kept sayin "not a genuine copy please register" or whatever. Any way like i said it worked fine i had no problems with it at all and randomly one day i pull it out and turn it on and it takes about an hour and a half to get past the "Windows Starting" and "welcome" screens and to get to explorer, once it was up it took for ever to do anything. i click on "start" and it takes 25 seconds to pull up the menu, then i click on "control panel" and it takes another 25 seconds or so to open it up and show the contents, and this happens with every single program i click on or try to open. So i tried restarting it and again it took an hour to load up. so what i ended up doing was trying to reinstall windows 7, which i did, but still had the same issue, so i tried having a buddy come over and install a different 7 disk but it couldnt even get through the installation and kept cancelling, tried that 3 times, then we tried my disk again, did the same thing it couldnt install, so we loaded windows XP and it worked but then as i was installing drivers it came up with some blue screen "registry problem" i think and shut down, tried to restart and got the same message and it shut down. So i got my oem 7 disk again and tried one more time, it worked! it loaded up but was still just as slow!... so i tried using a different disk of xp and it loaded up just fine and was running smooth other than the fact that it didnt install any drivers and so i couldnt do ANYTHING with the computer, not even get online to download the drivers... so i once again reinstalled windows 7 and ever since ive been having the same problem. i mean the computer works, im using it rite now to write this on here but its just slow as all hell...
Any one have any ideas of why it might be running like this?... im completely at a loss.... i have no idea what to do...