Hi there,
I recently purchased an HP pavillon dv3
-CORE i7
-Windows 7 premium
-300GB Harddrive
-2GB RAM
PROBLEM:
The whole system slows down exceedingly everytime I use it. I think it's a virus because it started happening when I loaded a lot of files from our previous computer into my laptop. The most obvious symptom of it slowing down is when the music I'm listening to starts to crash (at first I thought the speakers are the problem). Even if there's only one application opened, the laptop is still very SLOOOOW. It doesn't stay slow all the time though; sometimes the system speed will go back to normal....then SLOW DOWN again! When I restart it, it will mostly go back to it's proper/normal working condition; but after I think 10 minutes or so,,well it will most likely SLOW DOWN AGAIN. I've scanned the whole system but it didn't help a bit(it did detect some viruses but it's all fixed). I've dEFRAGMENTED, SYSTEM TUnED-UP, and ResCANNED again. Nothing happened.
IS THERE REALLY A VIRUS THAT SLOWS/CRASHES A SYSTEM THIS MUCH?!
WHAT CAN I DO before I finally contact HP? (who would probably tell me that they will reformat my laptop)
DO I NEED A REFORMAT?!<no please, no>
HELP!!!!