Posts by JP11283

Did the above with no change in performance. Even scrolling through the message list on the forum is sluggish with a delay from the time I move the scroll wheel to the time the screen starts scrolling if I have another tab open and...

I ran chkdsk again and it returned no errors. Safe mode didn't seem to make much of a difference. Below are the processes that normally are running:  

I've run chkdsk multiple time with no errors. I'll try browsing in safe mode when I get off work this evening and post the results.  

I removed Avast altogether, with no change in performance. Could a hard drive be going bad even though diagnostics say it's ok? It seems to be the most sluggish when the hard drive is reading/writing a lot. I can actually hear it from...

I just found two ATA Channel 0 entries and an ATA Channel 2 entry under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager. Both Channel 0 entries have the DMA box checked under advanced setting in properties. Channel 2 does not have a DMA...

Internet speeds are fine. I'm consistently getting 50 Mbps download speeds and 20 Mbps upload speeds. Both Flash and Java are the latest versions. No browser add-ons or plug-ins. Backgrounds processes area clean and no bloatware since...

I'm using my MIL's old Dell Inspiron 1520 after my year and a half old M5010 died. It has an Intel 1525 1.5 Ghz processor, 4 GB of memory (recently upgraded from 2 GB), and a 150 GB hard drive. I did a clean install of Windows 7...