I have a Dell Laptop with 1.7GHZ Pentium M processor, 1GB of Ram and 80 GB hard drive. It is running Windows XP Pro with all latest patches installed. Since past few weeks i am noticing slow down in my system performance. No matter what file i try to open, it takes more than 40 seconds to launch. This happens with file types like .doc, .xls, .pdf , or even a small .txt file. I dont think a text file should take 40 seconds to launch, right? No matter you double click or right click > open, it takes the same time.
I thought it could be virus creating the problem, but after running multiple spyware programs such as Adware and Spybot, all programs dint found anything suspicious. Any idea what is wrong and how can i fix the problem?
Many thanks.
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