HP Pavilion g6 runs slow and freezes

[caf3101]

Hello

i have had my HP for awhile now but it runs really slow sometimes and even freezes on me.  it is a i5 processor and has 4gb of ram and most of the 500gb hard drive is not tused.  i do not play games on it all i do is download and read emails really and use it for abit of web browsing but it is always running hot and running slow.  take for instance i have it running right now and on the and i only have facebook open working on firefox and the ram being used is 3.73gb of total i dont see how this is possble can someone help please.

[Dragon-Fur]

This might be just what you need -- at least, it is where you need to start:

Dust and "Road Dirt" -- Dust Bunnies in the Vents

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Another approach:

Reducing Heat and Fan Noise by Cleaning Air Vents - notebooks

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General Cleanup

Another place to look - there might be "stuff" on your system that does not belong, either by design or because it is just accumulated "junk" that needs clearing.  This document will help you sort out what is going on and provide ways to make things run faster and more efficiently:

Windows 7 Stops Responding or Becomes Very Slow After Connecting to the Internet

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Rogues and "Things That are Stuck"

There might be something running on your computer that should not "be there", at least in the sense that the program that is running is maybe stuck in a loop and hogging your resources.  This can happen when ordinary programs "go rogue" due to an error in the Operating System, when there is a "bug", when there is a mistake in the code that makes up the program itself.  Stuff happens and things get stuck.  When this happens, your computer can act like it is working real hard and your are not even doing anything -- anything that you know about, at least.

How to use the Resource Monitor in Windows 7

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I hope this helps!

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[caf3101]

thank you for your response this laptop is less than 6 months old and i have checked the fan and it is is all clean.  as i said before i think the main problem is the ram running at a very high rate evn when it is not being taxed by other programms also it has always been slow since i got it

[UniProg]

Hello caf3101,

Your notebook is still in warranty if it is only 6 months old.  Call in to HP and speak to a rep, who will help you.

If you live in the US, contact HP Here.

 If you are in another part of the world, begin Here.

Good luck!

[JJeter66]

Hello,

I realize this is an old post, but I am having the exact same issue with my Pavilion G6. 

I checked the fan to make sure there was no dust, and it is quite clean.

The warranty is currently up, so that option is not available.

I've actually gone through quite a bit of trouble trying to find the problem, but to no avail.

What I've done:

1. Restart

2. Run Malwarebytes

3. Reformat (including completely deleting each partition) from windows 7 to 8.1

4. Run diagnostics on Memory

5. Run diagnostics on Hard drive

6. Ensure ram is properly seated

7. Run Malwarebytes again

Would you happen to have any other advice?

Thank you