Computer Very Slow

niceday999

computer very slow......could i have a viris or anything ? what can i do to speed up things.....
sites take ages to load etc......
this is a very recent thing.
HELP !!!!

Browntoa

download

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

and

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/

install ccleaner , run and delete everything

install malwarebytes , update and do an full scan and post the log file

install hijack this , do a scan and post that log file as well

aerostar

If you are using AVG anti virus, uninstall it and replace with AVIRA or AVAST. Have had 4 people recently with slow computers, removing AVG has solved the problem.

macman

Your PC is generally slow?
Or your internet connections is slow?
Two very different things-which is it?
A bit more info needed-what OS are you running? What AV software do you currently have installed?

Doonhamer

Probably is malware, but if the previous suggestions don't work one other thing to do is to check your harddrive hasn't reverted to PIO mode. It should be DMA.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm

niceday999

Browntoa wrote: »

download

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

and

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/

install ccleaner , run and delete everything

install malwarebytes , update and do an full scan and post the log file

install hijack this , do a scan and post that log file as well

downloaded the above and ran a scan on the CCleaner and found this

Registry - "1202 problems found"
temporary Internet files " 4399 files found"
junk files " 2454 files found"
recycle bin "18 files found"
broken shortcuts " 21 files found"

what does the above mean ?

going to do the other 2 scans now

aerostar

CCCleaner info really just means you had a lot of junk files, duff short cuts because either you made them and later uninstalled the program but you did not delete the shortcuts, I assume you told cccleaner to deal with them. Registry probs usually because programs rarely remove all of their references in the registry when you uninstall.

niceday999

macman wrote: »

Your PC is generally slow?
Or your internet connections is slow?
Two very different things-which is it?
A bit more info needed-what OS are you running? What AV software do you currently have installed?

The pc is slow. i am running windows xp
i'm nor sure what av software i have installed .

niceday999

aerostar wrote: »

CCCleaner info really just means you had a lot of junk files, duff short cuts because either you made them and later uninstalled the program but you did not delete the shortcuts, I assume you told cccleaner to deal with them. Registry probs usually because programs rarely remove all of their references in the registry when you uninstall.

i didnt know what to do...after the scan.....will i need to rerun the scan again to get rid of them yes i have tried to uninstall programmes thet are no longer used.....
when i go back in into ccleaner it says you have to pay 50 dollars to use the site to fix the problems ?????????

niceday999

the anti malware one is running at the minute and so far it has found 13 objects that are infected ???????

niceday999

Doonhamer wrote: »

Probably is malware, but if the previous suggestions don't work one other thing to do is to check your harddrive hasn't reverted to PIO mode. It should be DMA.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm

def in DMA mode ...just checked there
thank you