Aspire 1300 progressive slowing down

[deef]

hi! i'm a techspot newcomer, and i'm posting here my first problem.

I have a quite old acer aspire 1300 with win xp home installed. When it was new, it worked good. but since last year, it started slowing down. so i formatted it, and reinstalled the os. but it is still too slow.
and then, sometimes it shuts down suddenly; i think it's an overheating problem, but can this even cause the slowing down? and if not, what causes it?

please, help me... thanks before

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Overheating could likely cause your CPU to throttle, which, in essence would slow things down yeah.

If you feel that's what the issue might be, take a can of compressed air to the inside of your laptop .