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It was just SOOOO slow with 40 tabs open in chrome. Nothing else running, either. 4 gb of memory, 2 fast processors, a pair of 7200 rpm drives, and the s.o.b. was slow as mollasses, taking 30 to 45 seconds sometimes to do simple things.
It wasnt virused, it was MS'd and Googled to death!
BTW, my linux box with the same exact 40 tabs plus 41 on facebook chatting and 42 on youtube playing a music video, and 43 here was running 19% of cpu and only 47% on memory, and this laptop has only 3 gb, not 4 gb like the windows one.
Quite a difference...
The real surprise is that I'm running SlackoPup 5.7.0, and I was able to get most of the games I wanted, and get it to play videos, and once my tweaking was done, I was able to back up the partition, and restore it and get it to work without much trouble on 3 other machines, too.
Anyway, thanks to those who wrote the code and those who helped me get it all working.
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