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laptop always 'busy'

bright_side
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Hi, for the past couple of weeks my laptop seems to be constantly doing something in the background thus making it run very slow, it's driving me mad!! Does anyone have any idea what could be going on please? AVG hasn't picked up anything dodgy.
Some people see the glass half full, others see the glass half empty - the enlightened are simply grateful to have a glass :)

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  • stilltheone
    stilltheone Posts: 2,131 Forumite
    I'm so tired of reading these AVG threads....
  • bright_side
    bright_side Posts: 1,802 Forumite
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    That's not very fair :( If I had any clue what I was doing I wouldn't have come on here asking for help. Perhaps you could enlighten me as to where I should start in order to try to fix the problem??
    Some people see the glass half full, others see the glass half empty - the enlightened are simply grateful to have a glass :)
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 12 May 2011 at 5:44PM
    uninstall avg, install avast 6 free, full scan with malwarebytes and fix anything found before closing, post a hijackthis log. If it's XP - post installed ram figures along with commit charge figures from task manager, performance

    follow this

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

    See if it is always busy if you run on mains, without the battery in.

    check in task manager which process is hogging the cpu
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
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