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

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

Have you ran your Anti-virus and spy-ware programs in safe mode. Is your ISP working fine?
Good Luck
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