[shed]

Hi, can anyone help. Recently programs are taking a lot longer to load from the hard drive than they used to do. If I put on something new it takes longer to do as well. Wasn't sure if my hard drive was starting to fail or would it just stop altogether. It is over 5 years old and until recently was fine but seems to be getting slower as time goes by. It also makes more noise than it used to do. I have reinstalled windows recently to get rid of a lot of the rubbish that gets on there but it is still slow. Thanks for any help you can give.

[Hybr!d]

Hard drives tend to either work or not. Slow systems that were once fast tend to be down to software issues rather than hardware.

When did you do a re-install, did you put all the correct drivers back?

Also are you running Norton software or McAfee?

[thingie2]

Try taking a look through this topic, see if it makes it any faster.

[shed]

Hi, thanks for the replies. It is about 6 months since I last did reinstall. I used to have Norton but after 4 years I decided to try AVG and it is a lot better and cheaper ie, free. The last time I reinstalled windows the things took longer to to put back on which is why I thought it could be hard drive. Some things also don't seem to run as well as they did in the past.