I woke up yesterday, turned on my computer and waited ten minutes. Usually it can take up to 5 minutes to boot up completely from shut down. 10 minutes seemed excessive. Today, this morning, it failed to boot up twice. It succeeded on the third try but took 30 minutes.
Once it's booted things work mostly normally, but every so often, some program will work extremeley slowly. For example, browsing my photos it, took up to 1 minute to load some photos while others were loaded instantaneously as normal. These are pics on my hardrive, not online.
It took 20 minutes to open Adobe Photoshop.
Any given program seems to take 2-10 times longer to load than normal.
But once the program is loaded, it works as normal. Well, mostly. Occasionally programs now freeze for various amounts of time before continuing to work as normal.
The only change I made to the computer when this suddenly started happening was I uninstalled and reinstalled an audio editing software called NCH Mixpad.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
My computer was purchased new 3 months ago. Software issues are not covered by my warranty.
Once it's booted things work mostly normally, but every so often, some program will work extremeley slowly. For example, browsing my photos it, took up to 1 minute to load some photos while others were loaded instantaneously as normal. These are pics on my hardrive, not online.
It took 20 minutes to open Adobe Photoshop.
Any given program seems to take 2-10 times longer to load than normal.
But once the program is loaded, it works as normal. Well, mostly. Occasionally programs now freeze for various amounts of time before continuing to work as normal.
The only change I made to the computer when this suddenly started happening was I uninstalled and reinstalled an audio editing software called NCH Mixpad.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
My computer was purchased new 3 months ago. Software issues are not covered by my warranty.