Slow computer - what to do?

Turn off indexing. Problem solved.

"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:274A120F-5102-4763-8745-A4237D8AD9BA@microsoft.com...
> John, first off: DON'T use Registry Cleaners.
> They do more harm than good.
> Only way to work in the Registry is manually: if you don't know, don't
> touch
> it.
>
> Norton is bloatware, and is a resource-hungry Anti-virus Program.
> My advice:
> Remove Norton; and install Avast Anti-virus, along with the other Programs
> listed below: Spybot Search & Destroy, and Malwarebytes, SpywareBlaster.
> Slowness is often caused by Spyware/Malware, so do a scan with the
> Programs,
> Spybot S & D and Malwarebytes.
>
> http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
>
> Avast Anti-Virus is XP and Vista compatible (32bit and 64bit Versions),
> FREE, auto-updating, and a low resources user of your computer.
> And, only have 1(one) Anti-Virus installed / running on your computer at
> any
> one time..
> Conflicts may occur if you have more than 1(one).
>
> http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
>
> Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 is a very good, FREE Anti-Spyware Program.
> Download, install, update, and immunize your System with it.
> Then SCAN with it.
> Update it, and scan your System once a fortnight.

DO NOT RUN INNOCULATION. You will end up with site access issues.

"Telstar" <none@none> wrote in message news:u5IyqKFRJHA.1144@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> "Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:274A120F-5102-4763-8745-A4237D8AD9BA@microsoft.com...
>> John, first off: DON'T use Registry Cleaners.
>> They do more harm than good.
>> Only way to work in the Registry is manually: if you don't know, don't
>> touch
>> it.
>>
>> Norton is bloatware, and is a resource-hungry Anti-virus Program.
>> My advice:
>> Remove Norton; and install Avast Anti-virus, along with the other Programs
>> listed below: Spybot Search & Destroy, and Malwarebytes, SpywareBlaster.
>> Slowness is often caused by Spyware/Malware, so do a scan with the
>> Programs,
>> Spybot S & D and Malwarebytes.
>>
>> http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
>>
>> Avast Anti-Virus is XP and Vista compatible (32bit and 64bit Versions),
>> FREE, auto-updating, and a low resources user of your computer.
>> And, only have 1(one) Anti-Virus installed / running on your computer at
>> any
>> one time..
>> Conflicts may occur if you have more than 1(one).
>>
>> http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
>>
>> Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 is a very good, FREE Anti-Spyware Program.
>> Download, install, update, and immunize your System with it.
>> Then SCAN with it.
>> Update it, and scan your System once a fortnight.
>
> DO NOT RUN INNOCULATION. You will end up with site access issues.
>
>

Also do not install Spybot Tea Timer. It will really slow down the startup.

[johnrudgett]

Wow, thanks a TON, guys. I'll ask Austin to come over and take a look at all these fantastic responses, and then do what he should.

I'm also extremely grateful to you for pointing out how unnecessary a registry cleaner is - I was given to understand that would solve the trouble!

Thanks again for all your help, I deeply appreciate it. And so will Austin

Best regards

John

johnrudgett wrote:
> Wow, thanks a TON, guys. I'll ask Austin to come over and take a look
> at all these fantastic responses, and then do what he should.
>
> I'm also extremely grateful to you for pointing out how unnecessary a
> registry cleaner is - I was given to understand that would solve the
> trouble!
>
> Thanks again for all your help, I deeply appreciate it. And so will
> Austin
>
> Best regards
>
> John
>
>
I bet he's also got Limewire installed. Every computer I've ever seen it
installed on is slow and it's on just about every computer that a 12-25
year old has access to.

I also accidentally installed a registry cleaner from a Cnet banner ad
once, from clicking too fast, and then a cancel button that seemed to
install it. Removing it was worst than removing a virus. They are like
the plague stay far far away.


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