I need some help, computer is being slow. IE shuts down by itself, lots of popups - although the popup blocker is on. Basically, its slowing down. Any tips on making it a tad bit faster? I've ran anti-spyware, anti-virus, cleared cache ... thats the most I can do. Im about to de-frag and disk cleanup. More than likely, you guys know more about computers than I do. Anything I can delete or a file that can be cleaned up that helps?
Sounds like adware/spyware. How many spyware programs are you using? Try getting a couple more and run them because some programs will find what others will miss. If that doesn't work, you might want to try doing a system restore.
1) Make sure your computer doesn't have 15 programs running at startup. ie. MSN messenger, ICQ, Limewire, QuickTime, Bit Torrent, etc. 2) Make sure your computer has some harddrive space remaining. If your computer only has like 500 megabytes / 40 GB harddrive. For some reason I've found it can slow things down. 3) Either do a free online scan to see if you have any spyware, b/c sometimes you have it even when your virus scanner tells you that you don't. Any of these 3: 1. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ 2. http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm 3. http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default...id=ie&venid=sym I've used Trendmicro, but I'd have a feeling these would work too. Just a note, these don't fix the problem, they just tell you that you have a problem if they find a virus. If you do have a virus or spyware, you'll have to either. A) Download a 30 day trial from one of many companies. Does the trick usually. Find a Beta version (a test version) that company wants people to test C) Go out and buy a good anti-virus program. (Usually I reccommend testing it first though with a 30 day trial) 4) Defragment your computer. Double click my computer, right click on C: drive, go to Tools heading, click on "Defragment Now", Click analyze, when it is done analyzing if it says you should defragment. Then do it. If it says you don't have to, then forget about it. I just saw that you said you were about to Defrag, good job. 5) Get Mozilla Firefox, it usually crashes less than Internet explorer, and when it crashes it has less of an effect on windows that when Internet explorer crashes I find.
The best thing to do is download and install Ewido for free and run a full system scan. Quarentine everything that it finds. There's a 90% chance that your problem will be solved. Download Ewido.
<div class="quote_poster">SkiptoMyLue11 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">1) Make sure your computer doesn't have 15 programs running at startup. ie. MSN messenger, ICQ, Limewire, QuickTime, Bit Torrent, etc. 2) Make sure your computer has some harddrive space remaining. If your computer only has like 500 megabytes / 40 GB harddrive. For some reason I've found it can slow things down. 3) Either do a free online scan to see if you have any spyware, b/c sometimes you have it even when your virus scanner tells you that you don't. Any of these 3: 1. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ 2. http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm 3. http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default...id=ie&venid=sym I've used Trendmicro, but I'd have a feeling these would work too. Just a note, these don't fix the problem, they just tell you that you have a problem if they find a virus. If you do have a virus or spyware, you'll have to either. A) Download a 30 day trial from one of many companies. Does the trick usually. Find a Beta version (a test version) that company wants people to test C) Go out and buy a good anti-virus program. (Usually I reccommend testing it first though with a 30 day trial) 4) Defragment your computer. Double click my computer, right click on C: drive, go to Tools heading, click on "Defragment Now", Click analyze, when it is done analyzing if it says you should defragment. Then do it. If it says you don't have to, then forget about it. I just saw that you said you were about to Defrag, good job. 5) Get Mozilla Firefox, it usually crashes less than Internet explorer, and when it crashes it has less of an effect on windows that when Internet explorer crashes I find.</div> Thanks a lot, man. I downloaded Mozilla and so far, its working smoothly. <div class="quote_poster">Laker_fan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The best thing to do is download and install Ewido for free and run a full system scan. Quarentine everything that it finds. There's a 90% chance that your problem will be solved. Download Ewido.</div> Thanks! I downloaded Ewido, which is now AVG and it caught 100+ adware/spyware, and I was thinking that my Yahoo Antivirus caught it all. <div class="quote_poster">Carter Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">My computer was like that when I had Limewire. I uninstalled and it's fine now.</div> Just to be on the safe side, I uninstalled LimeWire, thanks!
