My laptop started acting up, please help!

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Gyula_Torok01

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 that I got second hand 2 years ago. It had no issues up until now. Currrently, after 2-3 hours of use it slows down to a crawl and most of the time I have to restart the laptop to get it running good again. Sometimes even restarting doesn't fix it. I don't think it has anything to do with the sofware as I have defragged the laptop, run CCleaner and also a virus search and it found no viruses.

All the details you might need:

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1545 (manufactured between 2009-2010)
CPU: Intel Pentium T4400
RAM: 3GB DDR2
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (installed 6 months ago)
500GB WD HDD

If you need any more info I will post. Any help will be appreciated.

 
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ok .... that is way too high .... i presume you weren't doing anything that was really making the computer work at the time. Clearly there is a background program running out of control.

I Wonder if it isn't hung up on looking for updates - lets turn updates off and see. can you

1) type services.msc in Cortana/Search box and click on the 'Services desktop app' that will appear under 'Best Match".

2) scroll down the list of services that will appear and find 'Windows Update' in the services list (it will be near the bottom of the list).

3) Double click Windows Update and in the Windows Update Properties Window, select ‘Disabled’ in the Startup type list box.

4) Click Apply and Ok.

5) shut down your computer and then restart it...