Slow, choppy graphics?

Recently I have noticed that my NB305 has grown slower and graphics have becoome choppy and slow when scrolling down a web page or a document. The system just seemed to run a lot smoother when I got it earlier. Does this have something to do with too many processess being run or do I need to reduce how my graphics card works? I have Windows 7 Pro and 2MB ram.
Thanks.

Update:
We solved the problem. Weird solution but now it seems to work. I plugged a VGA adpater and played with the screen rsolutions to try and watch a movie well on my LCD screen. I changed the screen resolutions but I couldn't revert back to the default settings. Pressing "Detect Displays" didn't do anything.
Here is the interesting part: When I placed back the DVI-HDMI adapter, suddenly everything worked fine!!! There was no choppy videos, no low fps, works prefect.
Something weird is going on here, but I'm happy I managed to get the DVI to HDMI to work because I was about to removie Lion and bring back Snow Leopard.

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