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Old July 31st, 2017, 05:59 AM
wanness wanness is offline
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Extremely slow computer

Running Win 7 Ultimate, today, my computer is extremely slow. I have run Housecall, it indicates no problems. any suggestions? Thanks.
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Old August 1st, 2017, 03:57 PM
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See if these steps help: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...er-performance

One change, however. Run Disk Cleanup (or clean with CCleaner) before defragging your hard drives. It makes no sense to defrag a hard drive with potentially 1000s of tiny temporary files on the disk.
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Old August 1st, 2017, 05:10 PM
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Did as you suggested, worked like a charm. Thanks, Bill
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Old August 1st, 2017, 05:31 PM
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Super! Glad it worked. Thanks for posting your followup!
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