First off, here's my Laptop specs

Compaq Presario
AMD 2.0 Turion (Solo), 1 GB Ram
80 GB, DVD-RW, Geforce 2
Vista Home Premium

I've been noticing this since last week but last night it was plain bad.

Basically, for no particular reason, my laptop suddenly acts up practically clogging the computer preventing me from watching my dvd and I had to wait a good 10 mins before it goes back to normal. In addition to that, it eventually cloggs up the performance once again.

Aside from Indexing, are there any other solutions?

Thanks.

Home Premium.

I've already done a Check Disk and a Memory Test through Recovery manager and it found nothing.

Disk Defragging actually helps?

Basically, it slows down big-time. For example, I was watching a dvd and all of a sudden (my power meter gadget for RAM shoots up to 99%), practically freezing up the laptop for a good 10 mins. After it resumed only to happen again 10 minutes later.

Assuming the above suggestions fail.

How about reverting to a system restore point? Or re-formating the laptop back to its original-box form and re-installing everything? And what about Indexing?

Would that fix up the laptop clean-slate style?

Thanks again for all your help!

Then you can disable most of the services - if you request I'll send you a list - which will free up LOADS of RAM.

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Mike