Laptop soooooooo slow, getting error messages etc & not sure what to do?

Donnie

sunni wrote: »

Am I still meant to remove seaport from Program Files? How do I do that?
Sorry not sure what you mean closed by ctfmon - am I meant to remove something else? Any ideas how to get the Peak below 50000 welcome

I linked to instructions for this in #42. I can understand you being overwhelmed by the plethora of advice.

Wouldn't worry too much about tuning to the nth degree unless you don't intend to purchase more RAM.
I say this as you are bound to install new items over time, so having more RAM should help to cover this eventuality. Link in #14 in case you missed it.

sunni

Can't see seaport or services.msc in HJT ? Sorry just not sure what I'm meant to be doing but everything seems to be going great, with no error message boxes and it's running so much faster thanks to you guys - big clap to you's all :T
Am just going to run Avira, Malwarebytes & Ccleaner and I've uninstalled the other programs.

closed

install this

http://www.pcwintech.com/files/setups/cleanmem_v1.5.0_setup.exe

how to disable seaport, click start, run, services.msc then:

http://forevergeeks.com/why-is-seaport-exe-process-running-on-my-computer

how to disable ctfmon

control panel, regional and language options,languages, details, advanced, tick the Turn off advanced text services, ok

how to disable bonjour

http://download.gizmoproject.com/jasmine/TurnOffBonjour.exe

Set your IE homepage to google or yahoo etc, (IE, tools, internet options, homepage), rather than http://www.uku.co.uk/

disable jqs, sprtsvc and MDM.EXE in the same way as you have disabled everything else using hijackthis

reboot, check the commit figures, should be below installed ram, meaning no more swapping.

Donnie

You have a PM.

No advice on this thread will cause conflict.

sunni

Have just installed cleanmem, there's alot of things and I'm not sure which one I'm meant to be using, there's Apply Ignore List, Apply Log Settings, Apply Only List, Cleanmen Ignore List, Cleanmen Log Settings etc - just not sure what I do here?

closed

if you've installed it, it will automatically run every 30 minutes, so you don't need to do anything. You can run cleanmem.exe manually if you want, but you won't see anything, other than memory being freed up in task manager.

sunni

closed wrote: »

install this

http://www.pcwintech.com/files/setups/cleanmem_v1.5.0_setup.exe

how to disable seaport, click start, run, services.msc then:

http://forevergeeks.com/why-is-seaport-exe-process-running-on-my-computer

how to disable ctfmon

control panel, regional and language options,languages, details, advanced, tick the Turn off advanced text services, ok

how to disable bonjour

http://download.gizmoproject.com/jasmine/TurnOffBonjour.exe

Set your IE homepage to google or yahoo etc, (IE, tools, internet options, homepage), rather than http://www.uku.co.uk/

disable jqs, sprtsvc and MDM.EXE in the same way as you have disabled everything else using hijackthis

reboot, check the commit figures, should be below installed ram, meaning no more swapping.

Thanks closed, nearly all done apart from fixing MDM.EXE in HJT - couldn't see it? Also when I tried to fix the jqs and sprtsvc it said it was deleted but it's still there?

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 10:46:05, on 08/05/10
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\SMAgent.exe
C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Apoint2K\Apoint.exe
C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe
C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtcmd.exe
C:\Program Files\Belkin\F5D9050\Belkinwcui.exe
C:\Program Files\Apoint2K\Apntex.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\FirefoxPortable.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HiJackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://www.yahoo.com/search/ie.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.msn.co.uk/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Connection Wizard,ShellNext = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Apoint] C:\Program Files\Apoint2K\Apoint.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TosHKCW.exe] "C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [O2] "C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtcmd.exe" /P O2
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [F5D9050] C:\Program Files\Belkin\F5D9050\Belkinwcui.exe
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Browseui preloader - {438755C2-A8BA-11D1-B96B-00A0C90312E1} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\browseui.dll
O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Component Categories cache daemon - {8C7461EF-2B13-11d2-BE35-3078302C2030} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\browseui.dll
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Scheduler (AntiVirSchedulerService) - Avira GmbH - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Guard (AntiVirService) - Avira GmbH - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: SoundMAX Agent Service (SoundMAX Agent Service (default)) - Analog Devices, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\SMAgent.exe
O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (O2) (sprtsvc_O2) - SupportSoft, Inc. - C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtsvc.exe

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End of file - 3745 bytes

sunni

Also not sure how to sort this out. I use Firefox as my browser and when I open up Windows Live Messenger, it brings up a 'Today' box - if I select a link in it to open, it opens it up in Internet Explorer? Before it would have opened it in the next tab in Firefox?

Donnie

Set Firefox as your Default browser?

closed

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [O2] "C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtcmd.exe" /P O2

O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (O2) (sprtsvc_O2) - SupportSoft, Inc. - C:\Program Files\O2\bin\sprtsvc.exe

O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe


http://java.com/en/download/help/quickstarter.xml

Re MDM - IE, tools, internet otions, advanced, tick the 2 disable script debugging boxes, ok, then reboot

What are the commit figures now, after a boot, before starting firefox etc?