Brand new computer running slow...

woo

CCleaner has a reg cleaner in it..

http://www.ccleaner.com/

pchelpman

Phil ... what happened when you tried the simple removal instruction I gave in post #15?

PhilL_3

pchelpman wrote:

Phil ... what happened when you tried the simple removal instruction I gave in post #15?

I've not had a chance to go through it as yet but I'll have a go this evening and let you know

alared

pchelpman

Running win XP which seems to be OK but when I go to start--control panel and click on "add or remove" there are no programs there.
Any ideas.

pchelpman

alared wrote:

pchelpman

Running win XP which seems to be OK but when I go to start--control panel and click on "add or remove" there are no programs there.
Any ideas.

alared ... please start a new topic in this forum so we can all help/discuss your question without fear of hijacking PhilL's thread. Thanks.

PCH

PhilL_3

I have managed to delete most of the crap I wanted to now... thanks to those who have advised me in this thread :T

I'm still getting constant writing to the hard disk which when running Filemon gives me the path of C:\PROGRA~1\SPYWAR~1 running constantly; I dunno if this is harmless or what?

albertross_2

What's in that directory?

Badly written software can write pointless logging info every second or so (ZA does it), so if you have a spyware scanner in that directory that may be the cause.

Alternatively it could be malware after you disabled all your AV/spyware/firewall software>? (Mcafee is one of the better scanners, if a little bloated nowadays.)

PhilL_3

Although Filemon shows that as the 'path', I can't find a directory called that?? Sorry if i'm being dumb at this point

albertross_2

try start run cmd

c:

cd \progra~1\spywar~1

dir /p