My Dell Inspiron 1505 is only about a year old but it's started acting up on me the past few days and I am totally stumped as to what to do so I thought you guys might be able to help me out.
Specs... 2.0GHz C2D, 1G RAM, 120GB HDD. OS is XP Media Center Ed.
The symptom is the fact that it has now become horribly slow. The "Windows XP" startup screen displays and loads for around 4-5 minutes. Upon logging in, even the startup "song" is played choppy like the computer is too slow to play it. Accessing large things takes forever as does opening certain programs.
I first ran a virus scan (Avast), came up clean. Ran SpySweeper scan, clean. And Yahoo Toolbar Spyware scan, clean. Did a system restore to a week earlier and the computer worked fine for about 2 hours or so... programs, internet, songs, etc. perfectly. Then Firefox became unresponsive and it started all over again. I have not installed any new programs within the past month or so I would guess. I don't download music for fear of Spyware, and the most demanding thing I do is play CSS for a couple hours a few times a week on medium settings.
I can still get to all of my files and such so I'm trying to back up as much as I can.
Does anyone have any suggestion on what I can do?
As of right now I'm planning to do an OS reinstall with the Dell CD if nothing else.
Thanks.
Specs... 2.0GHz C2D, 1G RAM, 120GB HDD. OS is XP Media Center Ed.
The symptom is the fact that it has now become horribly slow. The "Windows XP" startup screen displays and loads for around 4-5 minutes. Upon logging in, even the startup "song" is played choppy like the computer is too slow to play it. Accessing large things takes forever as does opening certain programs.
I first ran a virus scan (Avast), came up clean. Ran SpySweeper scan, clean. And Yahoo Toolbar Spyware scan, clean. Did a system restore to a week earlier and the computer worked fine for about 2 hours or so... programs, internet, songs, etc. perfectly. Then Firefox became unresponsive and it started all over again. I have not installed any new programs within the past month or so I would guess. I don't download music for fear of Spyware, and the most demanding thing I do is play CSS for a couple hours a few times a week on medium settings.
I can still get to all of my files and such so I'm trying to back up as much as I can.
Does anyone have any suggestion on what I can do?
As of right now I'm planning to do an OS reinstall with the Dell CD if nothing else.
Thanks.