Jul 13
My computer is slow as hell and freezes on me. Most of the time, I have to restart my computer. I think I may have a virus on my computer. What is the best software to remove the viruses of my computer?
My computer is 6 years old.
My computer is slow as hell and freezes on me. Most of the time, I have to restart my computer. I think I may have a virus on my computer. What is the best software to remove the viruses of my computer?
My computer is 6 years old.
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To clean up your pc, give this a try.
Update your anti-virus, remember to only have one anti-virus installed on your PC
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html [Free home edition]
Download SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html [Free home edition]
Restart your PC in safe mode with networking, and run a full scan with both.
http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.shtml
While in safe mode, you may also want to have a look at your start up items by using msconfig.
http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
Be careful with the items you uncheck, you can have a look here to see if they are necessary
http://www.greatis.com/appdata/index.html
You should also have a look at your IE Add-ons while in safe mode.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/sp2_addonmanager.mspx
Disable any you do not use.
After you reboot back to normal mode, download and install ccleaner to fix any registry problems and clean up old temp files.
http://www.ccleaner.com [Free]
Then run a disk clean up
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312
And a defrag
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314848
I’m impressed, I found this place on Ask poking around for something completely different, and now I’m gonna have to read the old posts
So much for spare time today, but this was a really awesome find.