HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW PC OR INFECTED PC. (a mini guide)

gallygirl

I am trying to establish if my slow internet is caused by my PC (as Sky suggest......) or Sky (as I suggest.......).

On the basis that it would do no harm to look at the PC I thought I'd try your suggestions but have fallen at the 1st hurdle. On Task Manager Performance I can see the physical memory, but not commit charge total or peak. The other options I have are CPU Usage, Kernel Memory and System. There is also a Resources Monitor, but opening this does not show the commit charge total or peak either .

Help please!

closed

presumably it's not xp, skip that step

Deepfatfriar

KxMx wrote: »

I am still slowly losing space on my PC, decided to wait until it goes down alot more, then I should be able to see where it is going, as at the moment I cannot see for the life of me anything that is taking up more room than it should. Pleased i've come up with a solution!

Have you tried deleting all but the last System Restore Checkpoint. These files can take up a lot of space if you don't delete periodically.

ampersand

Run for cover, as I speak of needing to come here again...things are so slow again, that when putah suddenly goes on strike without warming[often get box saying Plug-in has become unresponsive, do I want to cancel? What is this?], typing will suddenly be[I've counted]16 letters behind keyboard strike. V. difficult to write cohesively. Will start the procedure again, but the original rpt prob. re:Chrome pprob po-ups and rptd loss of stuff worked on for hours, despite all saving = kick something hard fury/hopelessness.
I'm needing to ebay intensively atm - wipeout of listing prep on turbolister and direct makes for real despair. I spend hours on research - often necessary for my bits.
Will post logs.

Deepfatfriar

Have you tried MIcrosoft Fixit. This is a free product from Microsoft and examines many areas (one at a time ) on your system.

Suggest you try the performance ones first.

Despite what it says you do not need a Live user id to use it.

It's worth a try.

grumpycrab

I'm going to have a look at somebody's laptop but where we are meeting may not have an internet connection. I have all the required s/w (for cleanup) on a USB stick but guess I'll have problems without an internet connection e.g. making sure Malwarebytes uses the latest data. Is this worth trying?

waddler_8

You can update your own & then copy rules.ref & database.conf from yours to the flash drive & then copy them over into the correct repsective folders on the other PC.


XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Configuration\database.conf

Vista and Win7:
C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref

C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Configuration\database.conf

worried_jim

Just doubled my RAM from 1GB (2 x215MB )to 2Gb (2x 1GB) and it's like having a new PC. It use to take me 5 mins to boot up and get online- it now takes a minute, I can't believe it! I will buy another 2GB and really give it the beans.

teeny222

hi, everyone!

malk22

ran cc cleaner all is back to normal and faster thanks :-)