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First off let me say sorry for posting before doing a thorough search. I tried searching several times and it kept bringing me to a blank page. So I will be more than happy if all you do is point me to a previous post if you feel it is applicable.
My computer is running slower and slower by the day. I would say it takes around 2 minutes from the time I hit the power button to the time that the OS is fully loaded and I am able to start using applications. It could be closer to 3 minutes though, I have never timed it. It takes another 30-45 seconds from the time I click on Firefox for example to the time that I am actually able to start using it. Most of that time is spent just watching a bouncing fox and a beach ball. Parallels 5 isn't of much use anymore either. When I first installed Windows 7 under Parallels it didn't run so hot but once I upgraded to a full 4GB of RAM it ran great. This was about 10 months ago and it is practically useless now. I have a 250GB HDD which is only 3/5 full so I don't think that could be a problem. I have run all the disk utilities that I could think of. I checked it for data errors and it found a few but fixed them. SMART says everything looks good and I also fixed all the permissions (btw what the **** kind of problem is that? Who is messing with my permissions?) but it is still really slow. I used Onyx to clear all the caches along with just about every other process Onyx is capable of doing. Right now I am running Memtest in single user mode for the second time but it didn't find any errors the first time so I doubt it will this time. I don't know where else to look. Can anyone suggest anything?
My computer is running slower and slower by the day. I would say it takes around 2 minutes from the time I hit the power button to the time that the OS is fully loaded and I am able to start using applications. It could be closer to 3 minutes though, I have never timed it. It takes another 30-45 seconds from the time I click on Firefox for example to the time that I am actually able to start using it. Most of that time is spent just watching a bouncing fox and a beach ball. Parallels 5 isn't of much use anymore either. When I first installed Windows 7 under Parallels it didn't run so hot but once I upgraded to a full 4GB of RAM it ran great. This was about 10 months ago and it is practically useless now. I have a 250GB HDD which is only 3/5 full so I don't think that could be a problem. I have run all the disk utilities that I could think of. I checked it for data errors and it found a few but fixed them. SMART says everything looks good and I also fixed all the permissions (btw what the **** kind of problem is that? Who is messing with my permissions?) but it is still really slow. I used Onyx to clear all the caches along with just about every other process Onyx is capable of doing. Right now I am running Memtest in single user mode for the second time but it didn't find any errors the first time so I doubt it will this time. I don't know where else to look. Can anyone suggest anything?