Everything slowed! HELP!

[awould]

I have a real crappy eMachines that I use for work, just basic Windows Office apps mostly. It's worked fine for everthything until last week. All of the sudden it is chugging slowly. It takes a while to switch between applications and render web pages. For instance, when I click my 'Favorites' button, it opens up the panel and the list of favorites takes about 2 seconds to appear, and they appear in chunks from top to bottom.

I wonder if it's that the video card has gone bad. I know it's no virus or spyware because I'm very careful with what I download and I've scanned it 8 different ways.

Suggestions please!!

Thanks!
Adam

 

[Tmagic650]

Your hard drive is probably dieing... There are many other possibilities, but with any Emachines, who really knows where to start. Good luck!

 

[G Ray88]

Have you ran your Anti-virus and spy-ware programs in safe mode. Is your ISP working fine?
Good Luck
Try checking here: https://www.techspot.com/community/...lware-removal-preliminary-instructions.58138/