Please help me speed up my daughters laptop?

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the182guy wrote: »

You're having a laugh aren't you??

OP has upgraded ram, performance has improved dramatically, they can defrag for 24 hours, and it won't have made anywhere near as much difference, because what's running and how much ram is available to run it in is what slows a pc down dramatically. How many milliseconds does it take to load a 2KB shortcut whether on a 90 percent full disk, or a 10 percent full disk?

Even 30 years ago, you'd be hard pushed to notice any difference after a defrag, disks, cacheing, and operating systems have come a long way since then

the182guy

closed wrote: »

OP has upgraded ram, performance has improved dramtically, they can defrag for 24 hours, and it won't have made anywhere near as much difference, because what's running and how much ram is available run it is what slows a pc down dramatically. How many milliseconds does it take to load a shortcut whether on a 90 percent full disk, or a 10 percent full disk?

Even 30 years ago, you'd be hard pushed to notice any difference after a defrag, disks, ram cacheing, and operating systems have come a long way since then

Nowhere did I say that a defrag would improve performance more than a RAM upgrade. In fact, looking at my post, I suggested a larger RAM upgrade to enjoy much higher performance.

So you agree that many shortcuts on the desktop slows down the startup time? I don't know if you were looking for a universal timeframe that it takes to load a single shortcut icon, well that does not exist. The length of time varies depending on many factors, most importantly the hardware.

I noticed the difference after defragging my HD. Why? Because over time, files get fragmented, and so accessing those files takes longer thus degrading performance.

closed

placebo effect maybe?

The point of my post was to stress the importance of concentrating on what is running at startup, rather than going through the old chestnuts of defrag, clean up your internet cache, uninstall programs, delete data, and you must upgrade ram.

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/01/25/disk-defragmentation-background-and-engineering-the-windows-7-improvements.aspx

aliEnRIK

Uninstall the ASK toolbar and the FOXIT toolbar

TICk and FIX these ~
R3 - URLSearchHook: UrlSearchHook Class - {00000000-6E41-4FD3-8538-502F5495E5FC} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - s - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - SlimBho2.dll' - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Ask Toolbar BHO - {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {0BF43445-2F28-4351-9252-17FE6E806AA0} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: Foxit Toolbar - {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O16 - DPF: {BFF1950D-B1B4-4AE8-B842-B2CCF06D9A1B} (Zylom Games Player) - http://game02.zylom.com/activex/zylomgamesplayer.cab
O16 - DPF: {CF40ACC5-E1BB-4AFF-AC72-04C2F616BCA7} -
O16 - DPF: {DF780F87-FF2B-4DF8-92D0-73DB16A1543A} - http://www.popcap.com/webgames/popcaploader_v10.cab
O16 - DPF: {F2D35D99-63B1-46D3-970C-6E22320D5DCB} (kSoloCntrlIE Class) - http://www.ksolo.com/playerBase/kSoloIEHDSD.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{31473066-2585-4059-BCFC-A35213D5DE0F}: NameServer = 156.154.70.22,156.154.71.22
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{630377B6-C493-4555-A536-828F99C1998B}: NameServer = 156.154.70.22,156.154.71.22
O20 - Winlogon Notify: avgrsstarter - avgrsstx.dll (file missing)


id recommend uninstalling AD AWARE as its next to useless

Please update and run a FULL scan on malwarebytes as originally requested

the182guy

closed wrote:

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/200...rovements.aspx

pastmybest wrote: »

Itis XP home edition SP3

Not sure how an article about Windows 7 has any relevance at all to OP who is using Windows XP. Also given that OP's machine is 4 years old and Windows 7 was released in Oct 2009.

pastmybest

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Uninstall the ASK toolbar and the FOXIT toolbar

TICk and FIX these ~
R3 - URLSearchHook: UrlSearchHook Class - {00000000-6E41-4FD3-8538-502F5495E5FC} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - s - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - SlimBho2.dll' - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Ask Toolbar BHO - {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {0BF43445-2F28-4351-9252-17FE6E806AA0} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: Foxit Toolbar - {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O16 - DPF: {BFF1950D-B1B4-4AE8-B842-B2CCF06D9A1B} (Zylom Games Player) - http://game02.zylom.com/activex/zylomgamesplayer.cab
O16 - DPF: {CF40ACC5-E1BB-4AFF-AC72-04C2F616BCA7} -
O16 - DPF: {DF780F87-FF2B-4DF8-92D0-73DB16A1543A} - http://www.popcap.com/webgames/popcaploader_v10.cab
O16 - DPF: {F2D35D99-63B1-46D3-970C-6E22320D5DCB} (kSoloCntrlIE Class) - http://www.ksolo.com/playerBase/kSoloIEHDSD.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{31473066-2585-4059-BCFC-A35213D5DE0F}: NameServer = 156.154.70.22,156.154.71.22
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{630377B6-C493-4555-A536-828F99C1998B}: NameServer = 156.154.70.22,156.154.71.22
O20 - Winlogon Notify: avgrsstarter - avgrsstx.dll (file missing)


id recommend uninstalling AD AWARE as its next to useless

Please update and run a FULL scan on malwarebytes as originally requested

I have done all you have said and here is the most recent log.

Thank you so much and the same to all the others who have helped and I can't believe how fast the Laptop is now. A miracle!!!



Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.45
[URL="mhtml:{E98AA76B-5788-4932-B2AE-3F42AD5CDAC8}mid://00000008/!x-usc:http://www.malwarebytes.org/"]www.malwarebytes.org[/URL]
Database version: 4021
Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702
23/04/2010 18:03:07
mbam-log-2010-04-23 (18-03-07).txt
Scan type: Quick scan
Objects scanned: 112867
Time elapsed: 9 minute(s), 28 second(s)
Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0
Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

aliEnRIK

Im sorry but youve run another QUICK scan ~
Scan type: Quick scan

Please run a FULL scan

pastmybest

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Im sorry but youve run another QUICK scan ~
Scan type: Quick scan

Please run a FULL scan

Ooooops!

Will do.

pastmybest

Full scan done!!!

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.45
[URL="mhtml:{E98AA76B-5788-4932-B2AE-3F42AD5CDAC8}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.malwarebytes.org/"]www.malwarebytes.org[/URL]
Database version: 4021
Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702
23/04/2010 21:04:28
mbam-log-2010-04-23 (21-04-28).txt
Scan type: Full scan (C:\|D:\|)
Objects scanned: 180480
Time elapsed: 1 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 47 second(s)
Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0
Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

aliEnRIK

Please run COMBOFIX
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe
Shut down your anti virus
Follow the simple instructions it gives
Post the COMPLETE log it creates here (Split into sections if need be) ~ if there are loads of 'SNAPSHOT' pages then leave them out

If it comes up with a RENAMING error then RIGHT click the exe file and RENAME and call it QWERTY (Making the complete file name 'QWERTY.exe') Or SAVE as 'QWERTY' on download