Hi,
Over the last couple of days my laptop has been a little 'slow' so to speak.
Programs on it seem fine - e.g. Chrome, IE, Office programs etc.
However, it's the windows side that's letting me down.
Here's what I'm experiencing:
So everything is usable, but it's not right and I don't know where to be looking from here...
Any help is greatly appreciated folks.
PS... I doubt that this is related, but as it started on the same day it's worth mentioning... I use Outlook daily for work and since last Thursday (when the above symptoms started to happen) Outlook has been 'misbehaving'. As in, slow to visually send/receive emails (although i know they have been sent/received as they show on my phone instantly) and a couple of calendar reminders from that day keep popping up every time I open Outlook, even though they have been dismissed and deleted. Also search no longer works.
Over the last couple of days my laptop has been a little 'slow' so to speak.
Programs on it seem fine - e.g. Chrome, IE, Office programs etc.
However, it's the windows side that's letting me down.
Here's what I'm experiencing:
- When opening File Explorer, it takes a while to load everything within it, and the bar loading across the top seems to just keep going and going.
- I'm able to get into docs etc., but down the left panel there are no options under 'Libraries' and 'Favourites'.
- When opening 'This PC', it opens but nothing at all loads here.
- When going into control panel, nothing loads. (I can get to it though by going to 'System' from right-clicking start and navigating back to control panel where everything loads.
- Icons not always showing for files within file explorer - sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. i.e. i have a lot of Excel files - they open fine, but just have white icons half the time within folders.
So everything is usable, but it's not right and I don't know where to be looking from here...
Any help is greatly appreciated folks.
PS... I doubt that this is related, but as it started on the same day it's worth mentioning... I use Outlook daily for work and since last Thursday (when the above symptoms started to happen) Outlook has been 'misbehaving'. As in, slow to visually send/receive emails (although i know they have been sent/received as they show on my phone instantly) and a couple of calendar reminders from that day keep popping up every time I open Outlook, even though they have been dismissed and deleted. Also search no longer works.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Sony VAIO
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
- Memory
- 4.00GB
- Hard Drives
- SAMSUNG MZNTD128HAGM-00000