56k For Life
2[H]4U
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2001
- Messages
- 2,423
I bought an Asus A6NE last week and within the past two days, it's been extremely sluggish when starting up Windows (specifically, at the point where it says "Loading Your Personal Settings"). It will just hang there for about 30 seconds and then my desktop will slowly load. Norton Internet Security is completely updated and ran a virus scan. Windows Update is all up to date with security patches and SP2. The only other programs that I installed on this thing are Photoshop, Office XP, and PGP for security (it's a laptop after all). I even ran System Restore and went back in time to when the laptop was fast and it didn't work.
The only thing I can think of that could be slowing it down is that my PGP encrypted files are 5GB each and I have 3 of them for a total of 15GB. Could a 5GB file be slowing down a laptop like this? To make it even stranger, after it all starts up, it goes back to being the normal speed.
So what could be the problem? Anyone wanna take a stab at it?
The only thing I can think of that could be slowing it down is that my PGP encrypted files are 5GB each and I have 3 of them for a total of 15GB. Could a 5GB file be slowing down a laptop like this? To make it even stranger, after it all starts up, it goes back to being the normal speed.
So what could be the problem? Anyone wanna take a stab at it?