AboutShot Expertise I can answer most questions concerning Microsoft operating systems from DOS through Windows 2003. Hardware or software questions welcome. This is what I do for a living, and I love it! So instead of giving extra to Uncle Sam, I decided to give a little for free. Fire away!
Experience I have been working with computers for over 20 years, currently hold a full time job as a Network Administrator for large financial institution, and run my own PC/Network consulting company since 1998.
Education/Credentials Microsoft Certified;
Novell Certified;
Comptia A Certified;
IBM Certified Business Partner in Desktops/Laptops/Servers;
HP Certified Technician Desktops/Laptops/Servers;
Toshiba Authorized Service Technician;
Question For two weeks now my laptop has been very slow. I figured because I have a lot of software but it should cover because it's supposed to have plenty of space. I have noticed that when I put music on the media player it sounds funky, like in slow motion or broken. I tried putting a new cd and it doesn't work either. The computer sounds are weird too. I don't know if its the sound card or what. I uninstalled software I wasn't using and did a difragmentation, disk clean up and it is still very slow and making funny sound when it plays any kind in general. IS someone familiar with this? What do you recommend?
Answer Hello Viviana, since you've already ran the defrag, I'm assuming you should have at least 15% of your hard drive free. Do you know how much free space you have? You also might want to try temporarily disabling your antivirus software to see if that's causing the slow down. Does it do this when running on battery, plugged in or both?
