First I would look at what 3rd party programs are loading at startup and
disable startup for those that are not critical (very few, if any, are),
or just uninstall programs you are no longer using. In my opinion, the
cleanup programs are not worthwhile and may actually cause your problems.
More information about the slow symptoms would be helpful.
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Bill James
drewstein said:
forgive me for such a basic question, because i am a fairly advanced
windows
user...
i just want to know how to troubleshoot a very slow computer. i'm sure
it
just has to do with clutter over time, but beyond spyware/virus
hunting, disk
cleanup, defrag, etc. i am stuck. when i bring up task manager there
are a
billion processes running, but i am not sure if that's the problem or
which
ones to stop. my computer is older, but still shouldnt be this slow
[emachine 1.8 ghz, 480 mb ram, win xp]
are any of the commercial "window washers' or clean up programs
worthwhile?
just looking for some advice - thanks
