Slow running machine... :(

Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a marked slow down in my laptops performance. Just a bit slow to load programs, longer to boot up, occassionally it’ll get stuck in a loop for a few moments (luckly it hasnt been freezing or anything that severe). Now none of this is out of control, but DENFINITLY noticable. I havent changed anything major with the comp recently, and I’ve tried everything I can think of: disk defrag, system clean up, Norton System scan (I have Norton Internet Security 2004), and Ive used a few different software aps to locate and remove any spyware…

Is there anything else anyone would recommend?? Thanks.

Peace

try opening up the task manager and seeing if you can notice anything draining the memory

run it in safe mode when i did i fpound out thta i had like 15 things that i din’t need running