Death by Computer
The marathon running machine I call my laptop has recently decided it would rather walk than run. In laymans terms, it slows down to an almost unusable state. It gets so bad it cant even restart itself, complaining that it does not have enough resources. This prompted me to investigate in PC tuning solutions and from previous experience, I re-installed and completely tweaked my PC for best performance using Auslogics Speed Boost. Did it help? No. Did it make my Windows 7 look atrocious? Yes.
That was to be expected however so I am in no way rebuking Speed Boost. It’s actually an extremely useful application and I recommend you try it out. Anyway, thats not the end of my story because as of yet, what I’ve said has nothing to do with the topic. As my computer still decided to take a nap while it was awake, I realized this is not a matter of fragmented disks or overabundance of internet cookies and cache. I started investigating the applications I was using. Apparently FireFox 3.6 has a memory leak which can cause the exact same results that I was experiencing. I swapped to Google Chrome. Did it help? No. Final thought, it must be some sort of virus! (more…)