Seriously, this is getting crazy. I have an old laptop, it's an Inspiron 9300. It's pretty small since it only has an 80G Harddrive but it has 2 gigs of ram. The computer started running really slow about back in November and I made the mistake of taking it to the Geek Squad where all they could offer was to reformat it. So I let them. Now it worked great for about a week, all the drivers had been reinstalled and Windows had downloaded and installed all the updates, then it started all over again going real slow and the CPU capacity was going through the roof just by opening up a small file. Video would be slow and choppy, skipping and stalling on screens. So I took it back and they said they could do the same thing again. This kept happening for about 3 months straight and sometimes I would get the Blue screen of death. I thought maybe I was downloading a virus, but even when i only download the Windows updates, it keeps doing it after a week. It's almost like a week is the key point when it happens. I stop taking it to Geek Squad cause they can't do anything. I can reformat it myself, which I have about 20 times since then. Why would this keep happening? I don't even go to websites anymore. I just use my desktop, but I still need this computer for my work email when I go on trips. Do the harddrives go bad or something? Is there something that I'm not doing when I format my laptop? I'm so confused about this cause i thought I was doing everything right. Is the Inspiron 9300 not suppose to be used for more than 2 years? Is the harddrive not suppose to be reformatted? It's like i know it's good for about a week before it slows down and eventually gets a blue screen of death. I back up every single thing I do on my external harddrive cause i know that I won't get another chance. Any help would be great.