forever to load

My computer of late is opening slow about 80% of the time. But also once its
on and running other sites i go to open slow to, like i just tried to go to
boost.com it kept saying sending information to boost.com for like over a
min. I had adware on here but got ad-aware se and i dont see the ad pop ups
anymore its great. So do i need a different program for malware as someone
said i may have it and is malware same as adware. Slowness is such a common
thing i think on puters that its hard to know what to do, sorry this was
long,

Could be:
-anti-virus doing a scan in the background?
-browser cache full?
-fragmented disc drive?
-problems with internet connection in your area?
-virus or malware?
-hard drive failing?


"m" <m.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My computer of late is opening slow about 80% of the time. But also once
its
> on and running other sites i go to open slow to, like i just tried to go
to
> boost.com it kept saying sending information to boost.com for like over a
> min. I had adware on here but got ad-aware se and i dont see the ad pop
ups
> anymore its great. So do i need a different program for malware as someone
> said i may have it and is malware same as adware. Slowness is such a
common
> thing i think on puters that its hard to know what to do, sorry this was
> long,