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Susie – As far as the CD drive does, you could try and clean it with some compressed air. It may just be a little dirty. If that doesn’t work, the drive may have just worn out (which happens).

Your options at this point are 1) you could continue to use the external CD drive you have or 2) replace the CD Drive with a new one. Unless you are technically proficient and want to try and swap out the suspect CD drive with a new one, you may just want to stick with the external CD drive.

As for the running processes, CCleaner has a tab that shows all the programs that run at startup. You can use that to pick and choose what programs should run and startup. That should take care of some of the sluggishness.