serious computer problems

[will641]

my computer is pmsing and has gotten progressively worse. last night it was just a complete piece and wouldnt work hardly at all. i did a virus scan, no virus found. i defragged it over night. i deleted most of what i thought was the problem (my d:\) so i deleted most of its contents, and that wasnt the problem. last night it took more than 5 minutes to start up, and now it is much better. it is functional now, but not the way it was a few days ago. i still can't really listen to music as it is incredibly choppy and it makes me want to put a bullet in my brain. overall the performance of my computer makes me want to put a bullet in my brain. any suggestions as to what to do now? i cant fucking play poker because of this nonsense. my intuition tells me it has something to do with either itunes or poker tracker.

[Frink]

When was the last time you opened the case and thoroughly cleaned the innards?

[will641]

When was the last time you opened the case and thoroughly cleaned the innards?

its a lap top

[AHiltz]

Open the task manager and see what process is taking up all the cpu time. If it won't let you open the task manager, it's a virus. Tell us what the process is.

[Frink]

When was the last time you opened the case and thoroughly cleaned the innards?

its a lap top

Bleah... that makes things difficult. You may need to have a specialist clean the insides.(even laptops get dirty and clogged inside)

[jyms]

Download Adaware and Spybot search and destroy. You have probably hundreds of programs running. How many process are running when you open task manager, (ctrl alt delete)

Vista or XP

[will641]

so i got systemsuite 8, and i ran an easy update which essentially gives up-to-date virus patterns or something, and after i ran it, my computer has been running as well, if not better, than it was before. i dont know what caused it, but thank god!!

fwiw, i opened task manager before and there werent really that many problems with a bunch of programs running, at least ones that took up a lot of space.