I've got this laptop recently, and it's been running great, very fast and no problems with audio or anything of the sort, until recently when the audio started glitching, and switching between normal speed and much lower speed, and the laptop overall has just been running a lot slower,

I've got a 200gb hard drive with around 20GB free, 2gb of RAM and an intel pentium dual core with twin 1.86ghz processors.

Audio has it's moments when it runs fine, but when I open more things it tends to glitch a lot, and things like iexplore.exe seem to be taking up more than they should do in task manager.

I've ran scans on Norton, Spybot, Ad Aware and AVG, all to no avail other than a few minor TRACKING cookies which are gone now and the problem still persists.

Anyone have any ideas? Just been suggested fans running slowly so I'll check that but I'm not too hopeful it's that. Any help is greatly appreciated.What power SCHEME is the laptop using?

In XP you can check it by right clicking the Desktop
select properties
select Screen Saver and click the button CALLED Power...

It's all on full power, got it plugged in at the moment and it has a Toshiba power scheme program with everything set to full on it,

Fans seem to be working fine, can't think what's wrong  Just done another spyware and malware scan, still nothing.

No-one got ANY ideas? Everything seems to work fine until I open a few things, but I could run demanding games whilst still listening to music fine a couple of days AGO, I don't see why internet explorer should make my audio glitch