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Free antivirus etc

  • 10-08-2009 11:54PM
    #1
    upthedub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭


    My pc seems to be running very slow at the minute.Im looking to do a scan of the computer to remove any problems.I did avg a while back but can anybody recommend another safe site to do it online??

    thanks


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  • #2
    Verres
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Verres


    I wouldn't do a virus scan online. Download Avast antivirus, and "Spybot S&D" and see what they find when you update them and run them on your machine.

    Slowness of a computer doesn't have to be anything to do with a virus though. Run "Disk Clean-up" to get rid of temporary files. Check what you have loading at start-up: plenty of apps pre-load themselves at start-up so that if you choose to run them later on, they start up quicker. This would be fine, except that whatever time you save having them pre-loaded, you lose on boot-time delays.

    Spybot S&D has a utility to clean out your start-up items. Remove anything you don't need.

    If you're running XP on your PC, get Registry Mechanic and run that to fix up borked registry entries. Then get "OO Defrag" and do a proper intelligent defrag of your HD.

    Finally, you can run "TuneUp Utilities 2009" to optimise your PCs performance.


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