Pc Slowdown please help

Keanosafc

I've bought an updated (not new) dell pc, and reinstalled windows from fresh to wipe everything.

Over the past week, I've been transferring files from my old pc, to new, music files, video, and some image and sound editing programmes.

The new pc has slowed down a bit on start up, not really bad but noticable, (this was a big issue with old pc which is why i upgraded).

The current security/cleaner programmes i use are,

avg antivirus
zone alarm firewall,
c cleaner,
adaware,

I've ran all of these and also done a disk defrag.

Is there any ways to check for further spyware or anything which could be causing slowdown.

I've seen a few links for hijack this, but don't really know what I'd be doing with that.

Help greatly received, thanks.

richyrichuk

dont touch hijack this yet. if u dont know what your doing. have u got some system specs and some examples of what ur doing when ur pc runs slow please

Keanosafc

richyrichuk wrote: »

dont touch hijack this yet. if u dont know what your doing. have u got some system specs and some examples of what ur doing when ur pc runs slow please

Hi thanks, it's just much slower on start up, once thats away it's ok.

It's pentium 4, 1gb of memory, windows xp service pack 2. cant think if theres any more to say.

Browntoa

try taking zonealarm off and replacing with Kerio or Comodo free firewalls

Zonealarm is known to cause slowdowns

Keanosafc

Cheers willdo

richyrichuk

if u wanna run a hijack this. but DONT clean anything just post it up here us lads can tell u what to ditch to make it run smoother. then after that can blat it with ccleaner