My Computer's Slow as SHI*?

Question

I've deleted large files, gotten rid of unnecessary programs, and even used two different spyware/virus/trojan/etc. detection programs. Nothing. It's actually become SLOWER. Any advice? I have Windows XP.

Answer 1

Using a registry cleaner can fix your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!It even can speed up your computer by 300% or more!

There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.

http://computer-speed.info

You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer 2

Try Defragging your hard drive



The best way would be:

1. Back up important files

2. Reformat Hard Drive

3. Reinstall Windows XP

4. Install Security Suite (TrendMicro is the best atm)



You could also increase the speed with your hardware. An easy way to increase speed is just to add some RAM memory. You could also upgrade your processor or video card (for gaming)

Answer 3

Hello there.. try these, you dont have to use all of them though.



First and foremost, these are MY opinions and have experience several machines that had these on them,

as well as users using these product. Not to mention that I have ran each and every one of these myself

so as to not confuse those that think that I have not.

My findings in these products are useless and sometimes scare the normal user.

Also, these products are not for the normal user as normal user do not take the time to read the

manuals/docs for what they download and or buy, they just want to install and use.







Stop using the following software:

-- AVG --

-Avg has been known to report false positives, also reports "tracking cookies" as "Trojan downloaders".

This is bad practice to me, scaring the user half to death because that's all that we hear on the news

anymore is about Trojans, Worms and Virus'

-Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.

Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque



-- Ad Aware SE --

-Ad Aware is a dangerous program if you do not know how to set it up, although it comes with the basic

'normal' user settings, those that go messing about will find after changing the settings, will remove

things from the Windows System and then be stuck in a bad situation.



-- Spybot Search and Destroy --

-Same as Ad Aware Se



-- Ewido --

-Made By AVG NOW, although AVG (Grisoft) bought them out or merged (which ever you avgt fanatics prefer)

this product does the same as their software (av) and scares the user (see above AVG)



-- McAfee --

-System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn't that great of a

product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.



-- Housecalls --

-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.



-- Trendmicro --

-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.



-- Panda --

-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.



-- Norton --

-System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn't that great of a

product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.

-Also this product has to use it's own UNinstaller to get rid of it, even if you take it out of Add Remove

and reboot your system, this pain in the **** software prompts the user to reinstall or it auto does it



-- eTrust --

-Now owned by CA MS used to ship this with it's Feb 2004 Security Update CD set. ( I know I have it ) and what

a load of rubbish.



-- Kaspersky --

-Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.

Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque





Decent programs to install and use

Removal Software

Norton Removal Tool here (IF you have Norton):http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039





Turning off Services

Turning off MS Messenger services http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx





Anti - Virus'

AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html





Anti - Spyware

X-Cleaner http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_micro.exe CLICK RUN

Same As Above But You see the site http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php

Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

Super Anti Spyware http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe





Win Socket Fix

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm





Misc Cleaners:

Ccleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/

Easy Cleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

Reg Seeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm





Removing Rouge Software

Rouge List - http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Removing Virus Protect Pro http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic98219.html

Answer 4

possible virus.

clean out some old files.

were you watching porn that usually slows the computer donw.

Answer 5

Just buy a new one or you can try to defragmenter your disk.



Go to >Start>defragmenter

Answer 6

Have someone TRAINED in computer maintainance upgrade your RAM.

Answer 7

Try this computer speedup tool:

http://boost-computer-performance.info

It works very well.