Computer Woes. Please Help !!!

stressfree_3

Computer Woes. Please Help
Hi eveyone.

Im wondering if someone could give me some sound and helpful advice. This is the problem. Im finding that my computer at times is incredibly slow and sluggish. Also the main thing is that alot of the time when im in the middle of something the program becomes unresponsive and i have to start all over agin. this happens very regularly and i dont know what to do to prevent it. ive tried dregramenting my computer, disk clean ups ,ccleaner, Ad-adware, i also have an anti virus thing already set up, but nothing seems to be making any real difference! im at the end of my tether.

Also this never used to happen before but for the last number of months, whenevr i open a document in adobe or pdf i think it is, no.1 - it doesnt open, and whatever i do happen to have open at the time freezes, becomes unresponsive and closes down!!! ive tried uninstalling and re installing adobe - no difference!

please help some with something that really can work!!! :mad:

thanks

aliEnRIK

Did you run MALWAREBYTES as requested?

Spork

What are you using to view PDFs in? Is it Reader or Acrobat? Do you know the version number? Some versions (7/8) are notoriously slow - I had this with Acrobat Pro 8 when it was released but it fixed itself with subsequent updates. Apparently Adobe Reader 9 (http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/) is much quicker

stressfree_3

thanks . I tried malwarebytes and the computer isnt running as slow and i can now open up adobe attachments. dunno what happened but at least somethings a bit better. thanks alot for all advice

aliEnRIK

Open up CCLEANER
Right at the top it tells you the version number
can you post the info UNDERNEATH that please?
(service pack, cpu speed, ram and graphics card)

Also, goto C drive, right click and tell me what size it is and how full it is

John_Gray

You haven't said whether you are using XP or Vista, and what version of each. Nor how much Real Memory you have.

Hold down the Windows key (between Ctrl and Alt at the bottom left of the keyboard) and at the same time press the Pause/Break key (near the top right of the keyboard). The General tab will give you the above information, and more...

sammybee

have u got a link for the malware bytes thingys

thomas01155

Download
Latest Version
2.61MB
Malware Bytes

macman

Agree with John Gray. Please tell us what OS you are running, how full your hard drive is and how much RAM you have installed. Also the make and model of your PC would be helpful.

jimexbox

I would do the obvious stuff first. Boot into safe mode and run your up to date AV software. Once you are happy there are no nasties on your PC, start up task manager and see how many background tasks are running, you will be surprised how much crap runs which is hogging ram and CPU time. You can disable programmes that start up by typing "msconfig" without the quote marks in run in XP or search in Vista. Be careful what you uncheck!!

Next defrag you hard drive, if you haven't done this for ages, data will be spread all over your hdd slowing down load times etc etc. Its just trial and error at first, like I said do the easy stuff first.