6 year old HP PC has become unbearably slow to load up.
Slower and slower, old hat stuff...
Once it loads (10 minutes or so), it is useable.
Uninstalled all old programs
Ran unhackme - no remarkable events
Ran CCleaner 2.4 - no remarkable issues
Ran MalWareBytes - no remarkable issues
Ran Disk defrag in safe mode - no change in slowness
Ran RegCleaner - no remarkable issues
Ran RegSupreme Pro - no remarkable issues
changed virtual memory to alternative drive that has nothing else on it- no real change
Upgraded memory from 512M to 1G - no real change
Moved all important files to a USB drive for backup
Ran disk defrag in safe mode - "disk does not need to be defragmented", but did it anyway...
Will upgrade to Win7, but trying to make this one work a little better first.
Only thing left I can think of is hard drive issues. Like peanut butter in the HD...
Anybody have any ideas?