Pc is soo slow!!!!!!

[alexoo]

Hello, I just came in today and I turned my computer on and I takes ages to boot up, I play some game surf the web and it is really slow jet I have a good.
computer.
Case PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X4 QUAD CORE 970 (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3)
Motherboard ASUS® M5A78L-M/USB3: M-ATX, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)
Processor Cooling STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor NONE
2nd Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables NONE
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse NONE
Mouse NONE
Speakers NONE
Webcam NONE
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Cable Tidy NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Home Installation NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days


Can anyone help me?

 

[Fear]

Have you added any new hardware or programs ? is everything up to date drivers etc ? you could try restarting see if it sorts itself if not run a virus scan just incase you have a nasty on there.

 

[alexoo]

I turned it off than on and the shutting down took 3 mins ! And its wierd because it said microsoft security essentials stopped working so there might be a virus ill check now just have to wait through to terrible boot time

 

[Fear]

Yeah let us know how you get on.

 

[alexoo]

hmmm now when I boot it up nothing comes up it doesn't do the windows logo swirl and stuff.... Still taking ages installed the anti virus and scanned nothing there. Hmmm what drivers could be doing this ? they are all installed properly

 

[Fear]

That was a very quick virus scan have you not got anything on your HDD apart from your OS or have you only done a quick scan ?

 

[alexoo]

It was a quick scan because I haven't downloaded anything except from minecraft and google chrome. It seems to of gone to the normal speed now yey but still no windows swirl on the boot Thanks for the help mate

 

[Fear]

Very strange but sounds like something might be going faulty juse see what happens, if it goes slow again seen as you don't have much on there you could try a clean install.

 

[dodge83]

May i just put my two pence in there?

You should Boot in safe mode with networking and run MSCONFIG:
there you can google all the programs listed in the startup and see if there are any unessary programs that might be slowing things down and prevent them from launching when you boot windows in normal mode. (i normally limit the start up to graphic card drivers/programs any sound card drivers/programs as well as firewalls and anti virus software by unchecking everything else)
i have spotted a few nastyies here before even running a virus scan!

once you have done that DEFRAG (i recomend MYdefrag or jkdefrag) your hard drive (BEFORE ANY VIRUS SCAN)
this will help the hard drive run faster (by rearranging and organising the files on your hard drive)and will prevent any hard drive based slow downs and will also speed up your virus scan a bit too

Next you should run your virus scan this should be a boot time scan or a full scan and they should be set to full sensitity!
(if you have avast i recomend using a boot time scan this will scan your hard drives before windows boots fully thus preventing the nasties from relocating themselves)