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How to diagnose a sluggish or unresponsive machine

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My work laptop that I've had for about six weeks has suddenly become much more unresponsive. It is not generally slow, as when it is responsive, it's speed is comensurate with a Core2 Duo 2GHz with 2GB ram running VS 2010. The OS is Windows 7 Enterprise, and the anti-virus is ESET NOD32. That has b…

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Fix for: How to diagnose a sluggish or unresponsive machine

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The very first thing to do (always) is to go Event Viewer and to see the recent events. Some may give you a hint of what takes so much resources. For example, it can be a Windows Update which checked for new updates, or Outlook which started to rebu…

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