Its all gone slow!

[julianhj]

My machine seems to have gone on strike - any task seems to take forever - it freezes when I type, switch between different windows, moce the cursor - any and every operationtakes condsiderably longer than it should...

anyone got any idea what is wrong? Virus maybe? Some settings gone haywire? I've not changed/installed/downloaded anything recently.

TIA

Julian

[julianhj]

already have Spybot in place - can you recommend a free/trial virus checker? I don't have one atm! Am running zone alarm though.

[julianhj]

OK - fans all seem to be fine, processor is not hot to the touch.

Tried to install Grisoft's AVG only to be told it's 'not a valid Win32 application'.

Hard drive is constantly active. Zone Alarm no longer loads automatically on start up.

I'm going to format the drive and reinstall all the stuff I regularly use.. If that doesn't work, it's going on the bonfire and I'm heading for Dell's website...