Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
My comp's been having strange and inexplicable issues as of late that leave me entirely baffled, and thus I submit the matter to the attention of those far more learned than myself.

The thing is that once the machine's been running for a while (a few hours on the average) it starts becoming increasingly slow at doing anything, be it opening a folder, running a program, or even changing between open folders and suchlike. And there does not appear to be any perceivable cause for such slowdown; the temperatures seem okay, fans run properly, nothing odd about the paging file or RAM sizes or other memory-use things, ditto for processor load (there is a strange pattern where the load of the first core occasionally goes up to nearly hundred for a while and then returns to normal, without any running process showing any such processor consumption - but this happens more when the comp is still working smoothly). In other words everything should work without a hitch, but... doesn't.

To boot this is a very recent phenomenom, and I can't really recall doing anything that might have affected something vital.

Would this be a job for the Ghostbusters (or the repair man anyway), or are there do-it-yourself ways to try to track down and fix the matter ?
Hm, do you have processor with two cores? From your writing it seems. I'll say from my head, maybe one core doen't function well, and that cause strange hang up. Do you still have warranty?

[I'll talk with friend who has computer service, and sells hardware and software to see what might be can a problem.]