Hi there
For the last two or three weeks my laptop has been running very slowly - particularly if I'm using Firefox or photoediting software like Photoshop Lightroom which I use for work.
I have Norton Antivirus installed which alerts me when a programme is using high CPU and I seem to be getting these alerts all the time now, even for things like Windows Host Services.
When I look on Taskmanager the CPU is almost constantly at 99-100% in use. At the top is usually System Idle Process, Firefox.eve *32, svchost.exe - all using up a lot of memory too.
I have run SuperAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes and CCleaner. I have checked to see if the disk needed defragging - it was fine. I have removed all the programmes I am no longer using including old updates and reinstalled Java and Adobe flash so I have the latest versions. I don't know what else to do.
I am abroad travelling at the moment so I don't want reinstall the operating system as presumably this will wipe all my current programmes and I don't have the disks with me to reinstall them all.
Can you suggest anything else I might try?
I am using Windows 7.