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PC sooooo slooooowwwww

Is there anything I can do?
It's a dell PC, defo no virus etc, not overloaded with stuff but recently its taking an age?

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  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    Not a lot to go on here. But sometimes pc's get cluttered with software you dont need or temp files

    Get ccleaner for a start to clean temp
    Uninstall anything you never use
    Defrag your hard drive
    Possibly get more ram you will have to check you get the right sort
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    Check the amount of RAM installed too. Flying Windows key + Pause Break
  • iviv
    iviv Posts: 572 Forumite
    Are you running Norton Antivirus/Internet Security?
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