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slow pc?

  • 12-07-2007 8:58pm
    #1
    Ideo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I was just down with my friend having a look at his pc. It is AWFUL slow! seriously, like really really bad. i was getting frustrated just sitting there. anyway i ran AVG, Spybot S&D and AdAware and a few cookied turned up which i deleted. got rid of a load of unnecessary programmes and transferred all of his music and films to an external HD which i gave him. Ran the anti virus again and nothing turned up but its still incredibly slow. I was at a loss as to why it was so slow. its a decent spec pc, 1gig ram, Sempron 3200+, 128 graphics which isnt really relevant as he just uses it for surfing, movies and music.

    long story short have you any suggestions as to why its so slow?

    I cut the processes down to 47 from 58 but still no difference!

    argh!!! any ideas guys?


Comments

  • #2
    quaidox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭quaidox


    could it just be the natural windows slowdown, requiring the old bi-annual reinstall ??


  • #3
    Ideo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭Ideo


    he only got it back in february! i was thinking that but then he told me it crashed a couple of weeks ago. he said it was slow before that though too and that the crash casued him to loose a few files but its still slow!


  • #4
    Little-Devil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Little-Devil


    Best thing is copy any important files to the external hard-drive and reinstall his operating system from scratch.


  • #5
    Ideo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭Ideo


    not all that hassle again! yeah i think it might be the best thing - any ideas as to why it is so slow though?


  • #6
    ActorSeeksJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭ActorSeeksJob


    Check out this link, might help
    http://users.telenet.be/bluepatchy/miekiemoes/slowcomputer.html

    Make sure he doesn't have two anti-virus or firewall programs running on his PC. Also this tool will tell us if there's anything causing his slow PC.

    Please download the self-extracting version of HijackThis from here:

    HijackThis_sfx download

    Save HijackThis_sfx to your desktop.

    Double-click the file and install it.

    Open HijackThis and click Do a system scan and save a log file. Copy the entire contents of that log and post it here


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