Major Issues, pc slowed to crawl. Baffled.

[Brooga]

Not sure whats going on. Last night I gave my pc a quick clean out with an air duster after which it was running fine last night.

Today its behaving strangely, I noticed things which loaded up super fast before are now struggling and taking ages, if i load any of my games not only do they take an age to cache etc, but they are 2-5 fps slideshows.

Thought it may have been a bit of dust lodged in a port, removed RAM sticks and GFX card air dusted and replaced. Switched the ram sticks in the process. Now that knocked out my sound for some reason.

What to do?

 

[Brooga]

One other thing ive noticed is task manager showing explorer.exe using 95-99 CPU while idle. At the same time 'system idle proccess' is at 0.

 

[Didou]

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[Brooga]

Mm yes, sorry about that, didnt read stickys regarding posting logs.

 

[Brooga]

Fixed.

Deleted C:\WINDOWS\temp\a.exe

I always think its a bloody hardware issue lol. The glass is half empty kinda guy I guess.