Karenccfc1927

Seems something called smart engine has gotten into my sons lap top, it has disabled avg and will not allow it to be turned on. or windows defender. It will allow malwarebytes to run which found 772 probs mostly security hijacks. I have looked up about this andseems there are many very recent reports about this smart engine I read that spyware doctor is able to detect and remove this 'smart engine' I dl spyware doc, but I am unable to open the program as in same manner that other security programs wont work. I am not comfortable about following instructions of removing this tool manually. Any help would be appprieciated windows 7 OP

Hi there again I came to you with a problem, about slowness of my pc, I have yet to upgrade memory as advised. However the problem just got worse over the days and I felt I'd try a formate had nothing to loose. Every thing seems really good now running swift enough. I feel I may have caused the confilcts myself over a period of the year. * I had notified windows update NOT to upgrade to ie 8 (as it was I thought it was affecting some old programs i used) Then as time went on I realise updating ie was important, I did not know how to undo the stop, so I downloaded ie 8 from a web site. *Also window update constantly failed installing service pack 3 - again after web search and reading up I got sevice pack from anoter web site. *I then went on to try many different registry cleaners ( where as before I only used ccleaner) I think I was to trustin of the 'fix it' buttons. I think all the above was a resulting in many conflicts. All is now good, I think it advisable now just to stick to xp's clean up options, and Malbytes, Hope it ok to start a new thread, just wanted to update you, though I will still invest in further memory.

Thankyou Dalo. That really would explain then @ sp3, it was an absolute devil to install, I think many people were having trouble with installing. Thankyou also Amargedon, I did a pc couse back in windows 3.11 days, and win 95 learning alot of technical stuff changing ram was one, self taugh alot too back then. I use to be very comfortable with exploring the workings of pc's so I will be put to test on having a go :) I have no doubt I can also learn alot from reading through this forum to help bring me back up to date with technology. This dear old pc has well out lasted a laptop i had. Before coming to this forum I was going take the steps to do a format ( would have been its 4th over years) but it would have taken hours of time and patients to bring it back up to date, what with routers, and by the sounds of advice given I would have still need to add the memory, so you have saved me a job :). Thankyou all very much

Thankyou, I am actually too quick to reply without reading things properly I had scrolled the page further on crucial scan to find out the information needed, Each memory slot can hold DDR PC2700,DDR PC3200 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.* I would probably just upgrad another 256. Steaming on this pc is not such a problem once pc has warmed up. It is just the general slowness of booting up and starting of IE. If I just want a quick browse I tend to use my sons laptop :) as I could switch it on browse get the information I want and switch off BEFORE the time it would take for this old thing to be ready for browsing. Still attached to this old one and try to maintain as best as possible. Thankyou for your time

Apols i did not proof read again .....I have one stick of 256 in slot 1

Thankyou Frank for your time and reply. Before joining your forum I had yesterday followed the steps of letting system manage size, after a google. it was not selected prior that. I followed your step again just to make sure and confirm. I have just run the scanner and although it could not pick up make/model of my pc it could tell me about adding further memory, So I guess I'd have to take the existing RAM out and take to shop to make sure I get same. I have one slot empty, so it seems this would be a good option and upgrade. Out of interest could you tell me it is to do with age of pc, and fact of keeping pc updated with windows is part of reason of taking memory?, computer speed performance was a dream when new which would be expected. thankyou!

I run window xp home, which I had not stated. I have had a quick browse of forum only to find a few thread with mostly negative opinions on reg cleaners , although I have used them for a while with no major problems and would do a back up when running a cleaner program for first time, though dont on any after. I worry now that the cleaner are the cause of my problem even though I ran them hoping to correct.

Hi My computer often becomes extremely slow, I often run cleaners etc and this help a little, however lately it has become annoyingly slow and very frustrating. I will give you as much information as possible, in aid to advise me. Here are the programs I run to help maintain my pc as best as possible. Malware bytes Advanced systemcare ccleaner windows defender Avg anti virus I believe these clear out and control registries, junk files, spyware. Yesterday I was having 'vitual memory low ' message and I had not even started to run any programs. The only program in sys tray is advance system care icon. I changed settings for windows to manage memory and I ran all of the above programs and did a reboot. I have checked my start up list and only 3 items in there, which I believe are necessary?. windows defender monitor cftmon Perhaps somthing important is missing? My pc is 6 years old, service pack 3 ( which proved very difficult for window to upgrade too, it kept failing, but eventually installed) Pc is very slow to boot up and when I click IE (8) it can take sometime up to 5mins to fully load, pages on search load slow too. However once on for eg any of my forums and clicking from page to page is fine the majority of time, though to scroll can be slow/delayed/ or hangs, and I can hear a chugging noise from processor, and get the egg timer intermittent. I am fairly pc literate, but any advice you give me, would still have to be given like a step by step guide. Maybe my pc is just getting too old now, with all years of updates etc, is the reason it is slow ? it has 224 RAM intel r cpu 2,40ghz C drive is only half full, I have a secondary drive that is 3/4 full I am getting the vertual memory low message now, and I only have your forum application open. Many many thanks for and advice Karen Thankyou in advice

Hi Just wanted to introduce my self, I came across forum from google search for help ( after I have spent a few days trying myself to sort out my very very slow computer) Going to have quick read of forum now, and tomorrow make a post asking for advice. Karen