My computer is lagging all of a sudden?

Question

It was fine before but now when I start it up it takes AGES for everything to load and it freezes for a few seconds now. When I double-click firefox it will now take up to 5min for the browser to come up. Before it only took 3 seconds. This goes with every other program. My whole computer has gone slow and has started freezing. Right now its freezing so badly that you can just see my desktop image and a firefox browser! No taskbar no desktop icons! I need help. I have to wait AGES for firefox and everything to load.

Answer 1

I just answer this for someone else.  Norton Systemwork, Fix-It Utilities, or System Mechanic.  You need to do a internet cache clean-up.  Also a good Anti-virus program.

Answer 2

virus. scan your comp.

Answer 3

This may be cause by a possible corruption of system files. Another reason is the viruses in your computer. have you tried scanning for viruses in your computer?If you can't get it on a normal start-up, you can do it in safe mode. but if safe still fails, i think you really need to reformat and install new OS again.

good luck!

Answer 4

you probably took a lot of memory from downloading a lot of things. i had the same problem went to get it checked and the expert sed therre was a lot of things downloaded. he cleared everything made it brand new and you get fast programs again