So there may not be any concrete answers for this question but any guidance would be appreciated.
My laptop uses windows 7(Intel i7). It is roughly 5-6 years old. It was still working good up until about 3-4 days ago. It just started choppy for interval time frames. Example I will be watching a video on itunes or windows media player, I could be watching Netflix, or simply typing a paper in word and it will freeze and run slow, then normally then freeze again and run slow. Does this off and on for like 60 secs(when it freezes). So it may run normal for like 5-10 mins then freezes for 60 secs. Now at first I thought I might have gotten a virus, but I am very careful on my laptop. I never go to any unsafe sites or download things(at least not in a very long time). I mostly go to my School website(college stuff), Netflix, Hulu and youtube. I did transfer a ton of downloaded videos from an external hard drive from a trusted source about 2 years ago. I can't imagine if there were any issues from that, it would take 2 years to take affect.
I am wondering if my laptop could have just started having issues out of the blue, because it is 6 years old? I have about 60 gigs free/left out of 500 gigs.
I do updates on my anti virus software webroot and spy bot weekly, not sure if that would cause any issues.
Any ideas what the issues could be? Or any suggestion on how to make it better? Do you think I just need to update to another windows OS or get another laptop?
My laptop uses windows 7(Intel i7). It is roughly 5-6 years old. It was still working good up until about 3-4 days ago. It just started choppy for interval time frames. Example I will be watching a video on itunes or windows media player, I could be watching Netflix, or simply typing a paper in word and it will freeze and run slow, then normally then freeze again and run slow. Does this off and on for like 60 secs(when it freezes). So it may run normal for like 5-10 mins then freezes for 60 secs. Now at first I thought I might have gotten a virus, but I am very careful on my laptop. I never go to any unsafe sites or download things(at least not in a very long time). I mostly go to my School website(college stuff), Netflix, Hulu and youtube. I did transfer a ton of downloaded videos from an external hard drive from a trusted source about 2 years ago. I can't imagine if there were any issues from that, it would take 2 years to take affect.
I am wondering if my laptop could have just started having issues out of the blue, because it is 6 years old? I have about 60 gigs free/left out of 500 gigs.
I do updates on my anti virus software webroot and spy bot weekly, not sure if that would cause any issues.
Any ideas what the issues could be? Or any suggestion on how to make it better? Do you think I just need to update to another windows OS or get another laptop?
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