Computer slow to respond to mouse clicks windows 7

Open the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter. Note: If your computer is having problems with a recently installed device or other hardware, try using the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter to fix the problem.

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I have the same question Restarted but now incredibly slow responding to mouse clicks. Clicking 5, 10, 20 times to get any response. New batteries in mouse. I don't think the Mouse is the problem. Ran a system security check all drives, nothing found.

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Thank you so much. Sorry to reply incorrectly! I am online for a while. Appreciate your efforts. Not urgent. I don't remember McAfee even though computer not old. Screenshot Sorry, managed to get a bit more screen capture re McAfee after all.

I will do the same for you. Will do re calling a day. Mate, bit dumb here. Notifications area? Can't find??? Cannot find McAfee icon anywhere. Because the file storage sectors are not continuous, the reading time will become longer, so Windows 7 will run slow.

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".