Trevor Price
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Hello
I wonder if anyone can help me out -- I'm pretty new to computing.
I've got a Packard Bell laptop used for business at home, running Vista. I've got broadband, but I don't leave this on when I'm not using the computer, which I hibernate. I've got Microsoft Security Essentials, kept up to date, and I've recently run a full scan without any result.
The problem is that the hard drive will start working very hard, so that explorer, or any other program, will run slowly, or even freeze. This happens at quite random times and doesn't seem related to anything I'm doing on the computer. It lasts up to five minutes, though it is often less. Afterwards, the computer runs as normal, but sometimes, email addresses, which appear automatically in the mail web page (for tiscali and yahoo mail), will disappear.
Sometimes Microsoft updates appear, so I presume this making the hard drive work too, but again, this is only rarely the case.
My queston is -- is this some kind of Vista housekeeping going on in the background? Or is the computer being hacked.
I wonder if anyone can help me out -- I'm pretty new to computing.
I've got a Packard Bell laptop used for business at home, running Vista. I've got broadband, but I don't leave this on when I'm not using the computer, which I hibernate. I've got Microsoft Security Essentials, kept up to date, and I've recently run a full scan without any result.
The problem is that the hard drive will start working very hard, so that explorer, or any other program, will run slowly, or even freeze. This happens at quite random times and doesn't seem related to anything I'm doing on the computer. It lasts up to five minutes, though it is often less. Afterwards, the computer runs as normal, but sometimes, email addresses, which appear automatically in the mail web page (for tiscali and yahoo mail), will disappear.
Sometimes Microsoft updates appear, so I presume this making the hard drive work too, but again, this is only rarely the case.
My queston is -- is this some kind of Vista housekeeping going on in the background? Or is the computer being hacked.