I have a Toshiba Satellite with a Core i7 processor. It has worked fine so far until one day it has slowed down to a crippling speed. Many simple tasks like searching, showing the popup of the notification area or even pressing Windows key can take 5-10 seconds to respond. After that it runs smoothly again until another minute or two.
I fired up Task Manager to see what is going on, and nothing is eating the CPU (I did check "show all users"). As a matter of fact Task Manager also freezes during the 5-10 seconds delay.
I'm thinking maybe is the HD insanely busy, but then I can't explain why I don't hear much activity of it, nor is it anywhere near full (25% used).
Can someone recommend tools that can record such abnormal activity? Could drivers be a problem? It was bought about 2 months ago, and it hasn't been reinstalled since.