Guest John Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Hi In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC with 1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only major change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead. Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated. Thanks Regards
Guest smlunatick Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Performance problem with xp pro On Aug 30, 8:47 am, "John" <J...@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote: > Hi > > In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC with > 1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only major > change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead. > > Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > Regards OneCare has had bad reviews and has "failed" to help a lot of systems. As for the slow downs, you need to run other anti-spyware utilities beside SpyBot. Not every anti-spyware utilities will detect everything. You should use many different ones and hope that these can clear out most "infestations." Other "good" anti-spywares: AD Aware Spyware Terminator
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Performance problem with xp pro Also a sudden/noticeable loss of performance may be due to the disk or volume that holds Windows being in a "Dirty" or inconsistent state. You can check that from a Command Prompt Window (Type) Chkdsk C: [Enter] A cursory or Read-Only pass of Chkdsk will let you know if your drive is Dirty or Clean and recommend a second pass using /F or /R. "smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1188480385.816620.80030@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Aug 30, 8:47 am, "John" <J...@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi >> >> In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC >> with >> 1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only major >> change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead. >> >> Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards > > OneCare has had bad reviews and has "failed" to help a lot of systems. > > As for the slow downs, you need to run other anti-spyware utilities > beside SpyBot. Not every anti-spyware utilities will detect > everything. You should use many different ones and hope that these > can clear out most "infestations." > > Other "good" anti-spywares: > > AD Aware > Spyware Terminator >
Guest Unknown Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Performance problem with xp pro Have you done a disk clean and defrag recently? "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23wkDlPw6HHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi > > > > In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC > with 1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only > major change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead. > > > > Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Regards > >
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