My Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, on occasion will slow to a crawl. Apps take minutes to come up and then can't be stopped as they aren't responding. In this state the machine won't close down properly either. This happens intermittently - it can run for days without a problem.
According to Malwarebytes and Avast! there is no malware on the machine.
In this condition, both my cleaning programmes lock up at the 'deleting temporary files' bit, but after a reboot they may well run and delete the temporary files after which the machine behaves normally - until next time. I noticed in some forum or other that deleting temporary files can clear a slow machine. I thought that this may be the problem, but now I'm not so sure.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Cheemag
According to Malwarebytes and Avast! there is no malware on the machine.
In this condition, both my cleaning programmes lock up at the 'deleting temporary files' bit, but after a reboot they may well run and delete the temporary files after which the machine behaves normally - until next time. I noticed in some forum or other that deleting temporary files can clear a slow machine. I thought that this may be the problem, but now I'm not so sure.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Cheemag