I have a Toshiba Satellite P500; very nice laptop, runs great, no problems, would recommend to anyone.  However, recently it's been running a bit slow on me.  Startup takes FOREVER now.  It'll sit there and give me the loading cursor, I can't click anything untill it goes away.  When i can FINALLY click on, lets say a gadget, i then have to wait to open a program in the Start bar.  It's terribly annoying, normally as soon as i log in i can start opening things within a few seconds no problem, but now i'm waiting minutes.  Then if i have multiple applications open (lets say WORD and Chrome) as a switch between the two, my typing lags.  Like it still types but it takes AWHILE for it to show up (i've adapted by just start typing and hope i don't make a mistake).  The thing is, it's just MY account that does it.  My dad also using my laptop and he hasn't complained of anything.  I'll get on his account and every thing goes as it should, which really pisses me off.  If there's no solution for this, i think i'll make a new account and move into it, but i wanna see if i can't save some time....

Anyways, i have tried restoring my system to an earlier point when it wasn't doing this (started like the 22nd), no luck.  I cleaned out my HDD cuz it was getting full in hopes that it might help, nope.  I opened the task manager and ENDED any unimportant processes, that didn't help at all.  I have a CPU meter on my desktop and its not showing like severe overload that would slow my system.  And it has been freezing up on my alot lately, like can't move the mouse or anything, which it did occasionally before but never this bad.

And if i do need a new account, is there an easy way to do so, so that i don't have to GO through and change all the settings and find and transfer all my saved games and stuff.

Thanks

*system specs*
Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)
Intel Duel Core 2.35GHz
4GB of DDR2 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series

Idk, if that helps any.  If you need anything more just ask.Sorry to bring up an old topic.  But i want to help.

Looks like your HDD is going bad.

It happened to me.