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Hi all i hope someone can help me, i recently bought a laptop 2nd hand but it was fairly new and all was good, now it takes about 15mins to boot up and is very slow responding, anyone any ideas?

Cheers

Virus?
Trojan?
Full of rubbish? remove unneeded programmes
How much free disk space is left?
Memory sticks OK? More memory?
Laptop spec vis software match ?
Defrag?
Check cancel hungry programme running processess? try downloading winpatrol

Reformat & start again with a complete fresh install of the OS & applications.


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