Windows 7 very slow opening programs

All programs stop running and show program not running then flicker and starts. I have 3g ram. It is hard to run a diag. The computer is not new so any issues with the system may be causing it. The drive is new and was formated and part.

Only thing about install I had to do it twice to get it to take. It took the incomplete win 7 install and put it in the old sys. Any ideas? What win7 is it 32 or 64 bit.. Are you running added peripherals - make sure you update the drivers and the OS first. Go into Windows settings and make sure you're checking for new drivers as well as software genrally. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?

Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. But fortunately, we can solve this problem with defragmentation. The purpose of defragmentation is to reorganize scattered files together continuously to improve the seek speed of the computer.

Step 1. If you don't like defragging hard drives manually, you can set a schedule defrag so that your hard drives can get optimized daily, weekly, or monthly. The fan on the computer CPU is used to dissipate heat, but it attracts a lot of dust due to static electricity.

If it hasn't been cleaned in a long time, dust will accumulate in the air outlet, causing the Windows 7 running slow. You can frequently clean up the dust to improve the computer's heat dissipation efficiency. If your system partition is getting full, Windows 7 will run very slow, in this situation, you should extend your system partition. It is a professional disk management tool, the functions of extending system drive and Partition Alignment can help you improve the performance of your PC easily and quickly.

And it also supports creating, shrinking, moving your partitions for managing your disk more flexibly. Then, all disks and partitions will appear on the main interface. Step 2. In this demonstrator, there is unallocated space behind the C drive. Then, right-click the partition here is C drive you want to extend and select "Resize Partition". Step 3. In the pop-up window, position the mouse pointer on the right border of the partition and drag the border rightwards to extend the partition.

Then click "OK". If there's no unallocated space beside the partition, you could not drag the border. Step 4. Then it will back to the main interface and you could preview the C drive that has been being extended. Click the "Apply" on the toolbar to commit the operation. Partition misalignment is another very common reason why Windows 7 runs slow.

It causes slowdowns in performance.