PC running slow
n o s p a m p l e a s e
half year ago. It was running quite fast. Start up and shut down was
quite fast and any application that I clicked started quite soon. Now
everything takes considerable time.
What has gone wrong? I run Avira 9 and hope protection against
viruses.
Any suggestions what I do to speed up the system.
Tony
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Defrag your pc.
How full is your C: drive? Aim for at least 20% free - again this is to
reduce future fragmentation.
Download ccleaner (it should be free, it if isn't then you've got the wrong
product) and use it to identify files or registry entries that are obsolete.
If you feel at all uncomfortable about doing this then don't, it will help
but not by much.
Take a look in your event log (search for "event viewer"), under "Windows
Logs" look at the "System" log. Don't be alarmed if there are any warnings
or errors, because virtually every pc has both and mostly these are nothing
to worry about. That said, review each error and warning over the last day
or two to see whether any are related to the disk in your pc. If there are
any then it may be an indication that your disk is on the way out. Again
unlikely, but worth ruling out.
As well as anti-virus there are other nasties that most anti-virus products
don't find. Download spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html)
and use it to do a complete scan of your pc. You can ignore any
"tracking-cookies" but anything else is probably worth getting rid of.
Hope this helps.
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Format the hard drive.
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chuckcar
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> I bough my pc that is loaded with Vista Home Premium about one and
> half year ago. It was running quite fast. Start up and shut down was
> quite fast and any application that I clicked started quite soon. Now
> everything takes considerable time.
>
> What has gone wrong? I run Avira 9 and hope protection against
> viruses.
>
Yes, but have you actually run a full AV scan on *all* files on your
computer just after you've updated the AV information files?
> Any suggestions what I do to speed up the system.
Well that all depends if you have installed any software in that time or
not. If so what?
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n o s p a m p l e a s e
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:29:01 -0800, n o s p a m p l e a s e wrote:
>
> > I bough my pc that is loaded with Vista Home Premium about one and half
> > year ago. It was running quite fast. Start up and shut down was quite
> > fast and any application that I clicked started quite soon. Now
> > everything takes considerable time.
>
> > What has gone wrong? I run Avira 9 and hope protection against viruses.
>
> > Any suggestions what I do to speed up the system.
>
> Format the hard drive.
I did go by your advice and formatted the hard drive.
The pc came with a Roxio - DVD Burning & CD Burning Software (limited
edition). I am told there are quite a few freeware that are more
powerful than Roxio - DVD Burning & CD Burning Software. What do you
recommend?
Thanx/NSP