1. Is the HDD giving you signs it has an issue? Last year I ran into a lot of failing Seagates.
2. Memory Leak. Rare. What made you think this? Keep in mind that by design a Virtual Memory OS should have very little free memory and since your PC only has 4GB that's slim for today.
3. Malware. Try Grif's list at http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/how-to-remove-pup-option-603542/#post-f742c795-5881-433b-a29b-6d758efe5cd3
What I see looks to be an older PC. It won't be as fast and may feel downright slow to today's machines. It only has 4GB, has a HDD rather than a SSD and then we don't know about its age or if the owner kept up with maintenance. For laptops I'm advising 1st of the month canned air on the vents. Desktops, every other month. If the machine is past 2 years we want to check fan health and if older consider replacing heatsink compound.
If it's some OS issue a factory restore will put it back to as new operation after the updates install.
Hi, I have a desktop with the following specs: Windows 7 64 Bit Intel i5 3.20Ghz (4 CPU) Nvedia 320 GT 512GB 4 GB DDR2 RAM 1 TB HDD Acer Aspire X5900 The said desktop is almost 7 years old.
I have faced a combination of the following issues: - Black Screen upon log in - Successful log in, only for computer to freeze (alt-tab-delete not responsive after 10-15 min - If it doesn't freeze, the computer is really sluggish in general. (freezes unbetween firefox tabs)
Here is what I have done so far: - Defrag/Disk clean-up of C drive - Ran chkdsk.exe - Ran sfc/scannnow in safe mode - Ran Malwarebytes, Trend Micro Maximum Protection, in normal and safe mode (both came out clean) - Plugged out and reconnected the HDD cable (since the connection might be loose for older PCs)
chkdsk gave my computer some reprieve in the sense that I am able to long in and use despite the sluggishness. But I do get black screens upon log in at random.
I suspect it might be: 1) Some kind of HDD failure 2) Memory leak - although im not sure how to verify this 3) Malware - but the tests came out clean
I have run out of troubleshooting options. Could really use some help from you guys here.
Thanks in advance!
Prior to this I realised the Base Filtering Engine was absent in my registry. I added it back, thats when it started. But I am not sure if it is related.

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