Vista - Vista machine getting slower and slower everyday

Why is this? It's a Dell Precision laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit
and it started off being quite snappy when first installed and now it just
gets slower and slower everyday. It starts up slower and programs are
launched much more slowly than before.

I defrag the disk(s) regularly and there are 4GB of RAM so what could be the
reason? Yes, there are more programs installed and more disk space actually
used over time but why should that slow down the whole machine?

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http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Sounds like it could be spyware Quoll.
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Qu0ll" wrote:

What they said, plus...

Launch Task Manager.
Go to the Processes tab.
Click Show Processes from all users.
Go to View:Select Columns.
Make sure Memory (Private Working Set), Commit Size, Handles, Theaders, and
GDI Objects are on.

Now when things are slow -- who's piggishly out of line here? Using lots of
memory won't kill you ... to a point. Using lots of handles/gdi objects can
definitely cause bad performance.

Plus, hey Task Manager shows you CPU usage... =\

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"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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G'day Mick,

I did as you suggested and Spybot found no threats. I think this is because
I am running Kaspersky Internet Security Suite which I believe is excellent
in its defense level.

The problem is a gradual slow down of the machine over time. Each couple of
days or so I can notice that things are happening a little more slowly than
they were before. There don't appear to be any rogue processes running.
The machine starts up slower, shuts down slower, launches apps slower and
feels slower overall. I have run benchmarks using Sandra and it appears
that it's not the machine itself as those results have not varied so it only
leaves an OS-related problem.

Fragmentation would be the obvious choice but, as I said, I have defragged
regularly.

Any other ideas?

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And loving it,

-Q
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