Ok I have been give a laptop to look at that seems to be running slowly, I don’t have the OS disc (winxp) or the drivers disc so at this stage a reinstall is a non goes, I have scanned the drive using the latest norton and the trend online scanner, both game up with nothing. Adaware did not find anything either.
Apparently they had a virus a while ago and that’s when the slow up’s started. It’s a fairly modern IBM laptop and runs a 2.4 Intel with 256 meg of ram, the cpu usage seems normal although the ram usage using some freeware software seems to be in the 90% all the time, although how good that software is I don’t know.
Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this? Also any good free diagnostics programs out there that can test the laptop for performance and usage?
Could a virus be using the memory?
Anything would be a help


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