I have an Acer aspire 5741 laptop, which I use for web browsing, occasional Photoshop and Nikon photo processing. It has been grand, but last week it suddenly became really slow, painfully slow! Every minute a program would say 'not responding', long freezing and random programming closing.
I tried a few things suggested on other threads, namely reducing programme open on start up, general tidying of programs etc. I use norton , but also ran malewarebytes and spybot as others suggested. I quaranteened 8 issues. I backed up files, deleted a bit of stuff and ran disk defrag. No joy.
The start up is fine, about 2 mins and ready to go. After another 2 mins however, the HDD light goes from flickering to constant, and I have noticed the fan doesn't run either after start up. I open Firefox and a couple of websites then its like hitting a brick wall, its really annoying just to shut it down too!
I would really appreciate any suggestions. Oh and my last restore point is 2013, so not keen to go there but will try as a last resort if need be.