I have taken over my wifes old laptop which is an i7, really nice machine.

I have 2 issues with it though and hope someone can advise.

Problem 1 - the wifi will not connect unless I am right next to the router. All other devices connect perfectly well to the router. This issue has been around for about a year and we were not able to resolve it. The work around was a USB dongle for the wifi, but even with that its not as good as other devices and oh yes I broke the dongle when placing the laptop into the bag.

Problem 2 - my wife always complained that the computer got really slow about 6 months or so ago but we did not try to resolve the problem. I removed all data from the laptop and reset windows and deleted all programs hoping that it may resolve both issues actually, sadly it did neither.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks
Kavesh