I could use a little help isolating a problem

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Fazzar

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I've got an older Alienware computer that suddenly went to hell performance-wise. It can barely run any game and in fact hangs up when just opening a browser or any other windows program.

It's Vista and I've tried many troubleshooting ideas such as: scandisk, chkdsk, defrag, disk-clean up, multiple virus scans, ad-aware, driver cleaner, etc. I've uninstalled everything I can and tried all of the above again.

Any ideas on how I can narrow this down?

Thanks in advance.
 
Dodgy memory? I'd start with removing memory sticks and see if anything changes.
 
Vista is the first hurdle. You should dump that. this is the opportune time. otherwise i would do a fresh install, which model AW is it, i have a myriad of troubleshooting notes from all of mine, ive had em all since the giant Clevo brick 900 series..
 
Update the SSD's firmware.

Wait, did you actually run defrag on a SSD?
 
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