Basic desktop required

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A dead horse you still appear to flog http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=64226385&postcount=9

a lot of perfectly usable machines are being thrown away due to misinformation like this.

Even if that was true, and the case, ram is cheap. xp, service packed, with avast uses under 150MB, and any machine bought in the last 15 years is capable of booting in 35 seconds

somersethillbilly

chunter wrote: »

in the seven or eight years since your pc was new, the size of the software packages (eg antivirus) have doubled if not trebled. If you have 512 Mbyte of RAM, it'll be next christmas by the time the thing starts.
....no matter how many times you reinstall..

There is a time when you just have to stop flogging dead horses.
More information needed.

:rotfl: 512MB here, boots to a working desktop in 40 seconds.

portchieboy

Thanks Closed

Commit charge is 1.014m
Peak 1.648

Physical memory 3.396
Avge 2.240

Make of PC unknown, tbh have memory issues myself (!) and cannot recall where we bought it....it was a hell of a time ago.

Am trying to post a log, but the site has blocked me?

portchieboy

.....and now, to add insult to injury, having downloaded the hijack software, I've got Babylon taken over as search engine!!!!!!

Arghhhhhh

closed

commit charge is high

machine shouldn't be slow if you tidy it up.

mse has had this log posting bug a while.

http://freetexthost.com/index.php

do a malwarebytes scan

NiftyDigits

Run CPU-Z to identify the Hardware.
Choose 1.67.1 setup, english; Install and Run.

After running, click on the About Tab and choose 'Save Report(.HTML) and save the file produced to your Desktop(or wherever you choose)

Once complete, upload the file to DataFilehost and paste the link produced here or via PM.

portchieboy

OK, back from work, and getting there slowly!!!

Nifty, thanks, have tried what u suggested in PM, and cannot seem to get the program to work? Not to worry, we have sped PC up a considerable amount so far following the Closed blog.

Have got the link here yo my Hijack thingy.

http://freetexthost.com/46fyvs53us

Not having much joy.....

Just tried the CPU-Z, and I have 'run out' of Winzip, so it wont let me open the results!!!!

Now, in looking round, I have just seen under My Computer, System information, that there is an XP code...

55274-641-1687587-23337

Does that mean we could be in further business?

As you can see, I am totally not a technical person, and big up to those of you that are. So, if there is more to be achieved, can I have an easy, step by step please!!!!!

So grateful.

closed

uninstalling mse (Microsoft Security Client/defender) and disabling these from startup using msconfig (startup tab, untick) should improve things

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Standby] "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Corel\Standby\Standby.exe" -START
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NokiaMusic FastStart] "C:\Program Files\Nokia\Ovi Player\NokiaOviPlayer.exe" /command:faststart
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NokiaMServer] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nokia\MPlatform\NokiaMServer /watchfiles startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Easy-PrintToolBox] C:\Program Files\Canon\Easy-PrintToolBox\BJPSMAIN.EXE /logon
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Corel File Shell Monitor] c:\Program Files\Corel\Corel PaintShop Photo Pro\X3\PSPClassic\CorelIOMonitor.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [APSDaemon] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AppleSyncNotifier] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleSyncNotifier.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSC] "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\msseces.exe" -hide -runkey
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe ARM] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [HP Photosmart 5510 series (NET)] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Photosmart 5510 series\Bin\ScanToPCActivationApp.exe" -deviceID "CN1AE057J405NR:NW" -scfn "HP Photosmart 5510 series (NET)" -AutoStart 1
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [NokiaOviSuite2] C:\Program Files\Nokia\Nokia Ovi Suite\NokiaOviSuite.exe -tray
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [KiesTrayAgent] C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Corel Photo Downloader] "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Corel\Corel PhotoDownloader\Corel Photo Downloader.exe" -startup
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [GarminExpressTrayApp] "C:\Program Files\Garmin\Express Tray\ExpressTray.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [] C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\External\FirmwareUpdate\KiesPDLR.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Spotify] "C:\Documents and Settings\jean\Application Data\Spotify\Spotify.exe" /uri spotify:autostart
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Spotify Web Helper] "C:\Documents and Settings\jean\Application Data\Spotify\Data\SpotifyWebHelper.exe"
O4 - Startup: JustCloud.lnk = C:\Program Files\JustCloud\JustCloud.exe

tick and fix these using hijackthis

O9 - Extra button: Jackpot City Online Casino - 0D320635-18F9-4C5E-9E64-B2DF279FE0C4 - C:\Microgaming\Casino\JackpotCity\casinogame.exe (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra button: Dash - 7A341740-CAD3-4D7D-9529-367C1236C8BB - C:\Microgaming\Casino\Dash\Casinogame.exe (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra button: Royal Vegas Online Casino - {BE1BB725-61FB-4719-A3D2-C28AB31DC1DC} - C:\Microgaming\Casino\RoyalVegas\casinogame.exe (HKCU)
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yinsthelper.dll
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1246651781288
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/muweb_site.cab?1246651765366
O16 - DPF: {E2883E8F-472F-4FB0-9522-AC9BF37916A7} - http://platformdl.adobe.com/NOS/getPlusPlus/1.6/gp.cab
O16 - DPF: {F7EDBBEA-1AD2-4EBF-AA07-D453CC29EE65} (Flash Casino Helper Control) - https://plugins.valueactive.eu/flashax/iefax.cab

is it using this wireless usb adapter?

O4 - Global Startup: NETGEAR WG111v2 Smart Wizard.lnk = C:\Program Files\NETGEAR\WG111v2\WG111v2.exe

uninstall nokia connectivity driver, it usually adds a driver device in device manager, delete this from device manager

uninstall old printer drivers/software

do you need garmin installed, if not, uninstall

delete the google update task from c:\windows\tasks

if you're using firefox, disable any superfluous plugins, if you're not using firefox, uninstall it

if you've updated, scanned and fixed anything found with malwarebytes, you can uninstall it

then reboot, and check commit charge, and speed, and post a fresh hijackthis log

uninstalling winzip trial should re-enable xp's built-in zip file handling, or you could use 7zip instead.

portchieboy

Fun old evening!!!

OK now we have comit 712m, Peak 725, Physical memory 3,396, Available 2,540.

Hijack log

http://freetexthost.com/3gcf5uzfxe

I think we have got most of the bits removed?

NiftyDigits

CPU-Z doesn't need WinZip in any shape or form. Why would you need to open the results anyway? It didn't form part of the instruction..