[Vista] Whats going on, Im not sure where to start?

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Nazcar
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Two nights ago, I left my laptop on all night, a useual thing, when I woke up the next day, the screen was black and system was froze up. I had to literally unplug and take out the battery to turn this thing off, then it would not turn back on at all. After a couple hours, it turned back on but now run's really sluggish. Yesterday, I did a sys restore to 3 days prior of the incodent. It has not froze up again but it continues to run real sluggish. Imnot sure where to start, I have a post over in hardware but thought I might get some input here also.

Here are a couple pix to get started.

This is with IE 9 / 2 tab's / this page and Facebook ( home page )
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{ UPDATED , ADDED CPU PIC }

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izy
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Go to the processes tab and sort the columns by CPU.

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Nazcar
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said by izy:

Go to the processes tab and sort the columns by CPU.

Original post updated, added cpu pic.
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izy
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IE is definitely the culprit. Run a malware scan lately?

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Nazcar
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no I haven't actually, I take it forgranted that it is running in the background that my system is safe. I will give it a full scan tonight though.
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Oedipus

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Vista on 1GB? Good god, man.

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Paolo
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said by Oedipus:

Vista on 1GB? Good god, man.

is that good or bad?

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izy
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It's the minimum required. Memory is so cheap these days may as well upgrade it though. 2GB is nice, 4GB would be ideal.
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Nazcar
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Got it going again, it was actually a simple fix, a stick of ram fell out of its holster. 2 Gigs now, running pretty good now.
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psafux
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said by Nazcar:

Got it going again, it was actually a simple fix, a stick of ram fell out of its holster. 2 Gigs now, running pretty good now.

Memory doesn't simply fall out.

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Razzy

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Nazcar
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said by psafux:

said by Nazcar:

Got it going again, it was actually a simple fix, a stick of ram fell out of its holster. 2 Gigs now, running pretty good now.

Memory doesn't simply fall out.

Well in this case, " it fell the F out " , a pre-owned machine also.
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[Vista] Whats going on, Im not sure where to start?