I own a Dell studio 17, with dual core, 3gb RAM etc. iv had it running windows 7 64bit for a couple of months now and havnt had any major problems until now.
For no apparent reason the last couple of days its been driving me mad. Recently its just been having really random slow downs, i cant tell if its program related or not as nothing seems to trigger it off. This evening its gotten notably worse, any mention of clicking on the taskbar will cause the CPU to jump to 100% and windows explorer crashes. As i said, this seems to be the only fool proof way of replicating it on a regular basis.
As far as i can tell iv not installed anything in the last few days which could have triggered this. The only program iv installed is batterybar and iv removed that now.
Aside from this the only real programs iv got on there are a couple of engineering ones, ms office and the standard windows 7 software.
Has anyone ever gone through something like this before? Or have any ways to sort it out? Iv got updates etc all enabled, AVG running and i am very carefull with what i download etc.
thanks guy
(excuse typing, posted this via phone after explorer crashed twice)