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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: labopp on April 16, 2004, 23:39

Title: slow as hell
Post by: labopp on April 16, 2004, 23:39: hello.
this surely must be a frequently asked question, but my pc has become the equivalent of a food processor. everything has slowed down so much, i cant even browse normally on explorer. with NO other applications open.
i am on dell p4, 2ghz, xp, 256mb ram, and plenty of disk space...
norton said i had no viruses.
what is going on on this pc???
thanx
a.
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Lona on April 17, 2004, 00:06: Hi Labopp and :welcome:. Do you have adaware software programme installed as you could have a lot of spyware on your pc. Also do you defrag on a regular basis? This also can slow things down a bit.
Go here and install Adaware and check for spyware on your PC.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Hope this is of help to you. :D
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: joudi on April 17, 2004, 00:08: Hi Labopp,

Do you have "AIM" (American Instant Messenger) installed on your PC?
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: labopp on April 17, 2004, 01:07: hi joudi
yes i do have aim installed. why?
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: joudi on April 17, 2004, 02:03: Well, if you want my advice, remove it immediately with all the programs that accompanied it on your PC and in "program files".

I got that bad experience last week and got the same nightmare. I know also a friend who got the same problem.

In fact, it adds maybe three or four other programs with it too which you must try to recognize, apart of lots of "cookies" and adds.

Attention: "Uninstall" will not remove everything automatically. You need to go to "Programs Files" and remove all the accompanied and related programs manually.

Try to pass "Add-aware" and "Spybot" after removing all of those programs and clean everything.

Good chance. :)

we have an arabic proverb which I don't know an equivalent to it in english. I like to add it here. It's in the meaning:

"Close the window from which you get the disturbing wind". ;)
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2004, 09:43: Quote
"Close the window from which you get the disturbing wind"

That's what I usually say to my neighbours after I've had a Vindaloo! ;D ;D

Back to your problem, Labopp, if Joudi's idea doesn't help, you would be advised to run Ad Aware and / or Spybot to remove any existing spyware, then install Spyware Blaster to prevent any more. Spybot and Spyware Blaster both contain IE Home Page guards, and are free. You can get them from the links below. You may have to run the above programs in Safe Mode, with System Restore temporarily disabled, if you have spyware embedded deep in your system. In fact, my advice would be to do that anyway.

:)

Ad Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de/)
Spybot S&D (http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025604,39060157s,00.htm)
Spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/)
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Michelle on April 17, 2004, 11:02: Quote from: Simon on April 17, 2004, 09:43

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"Close the window from which you get the disturbing wind"

That's what I usually say to my neighbours after I've had a Vindaloo! ;D ;D

Is that the same quote as "stick a cork in it" ?

:lol:

Is that right about AIM I have that I don't use it anymore and I keep taking it out of start up and somehow it starts up anyway :o
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2004, 11:03: Have you actually uninstalled it, Shell?
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Michelle on April 17, 2004, 11:07: No I didn't bother to be honest :-[ But I will now.
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: labopp on April 18, 2004, 23:06: Thanx everybody. i will check all that out.
a.
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: Rodders on April 18, 2004, 23:08: What does the 'A' stand for? :)
Title: Re:slow as hell
Post by: DJ on April 19, 2004, 11:14: Quote from: Rodders on April 18, 2004, 23:08

What does the 'A' stand for? :)

A is for Apple, B is for Ball etc etc ;D ;D :P

DJ