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Win 7 64bit - slow/unresponsive

Four of a kind · 2011-03-14 14:54:14

Hey guys, I've noticed the past day or two that my PC has started to become unresponsive/slow and basically freezes for about 5/10 mins before coming back to life. It also takes about 5 mins to start. I've worried that there could be a virus or something so could someone give me a few steps to resolve or identify what the…

14-03-2011 2:54pm

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Hey guys,

I've noticed the past day or two that my PC has started to become unresponsive/slow and basically freezes for about 5/10 mins before coming back to life.

It also takes about 5 mins to start.

I've worried that there could be a virus or something so could someone give me a few steps to resolve or identify what the problem could be?

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Have you installed any new software in the last 2 days?

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#3 14-03-2011 3:36pm

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A new ati radeon driver update, but that was after I got a shockwave flash problem, which suggested to update my driver.

There is definitely some problem as it's becoming unresponsive all the time now...only the mouse can move around.

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#4 14-03-2011 4:48pm

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Start the pc in safe mode with networking (press f8 on startup) if you have malwarebytes installed update it and run a scan,if not http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5756.If that dose not help try rolling back the ATI driver.

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