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One more question and I'm through for the night. When running AdAware,
laptop shows over 2500 running processes. What is a running process? Is 2500
too many? Could that have anything to do with the laptop being so slow?
Thanks again.
 
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One more question and I'm through for the night. When running AdAware,
laptop shows over 2500 running processes. What is a running process? Is 2500
too many? Could that have anything to do with the laptop being so slow?
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YEs, 2,500 indicates a serious problem.
 
....processes basically are applications (or parts of an application) which
run when you use your laptop/computer. 2500 processes running is
alot....(compare: I have 40 processes running). That could be one of the
problems your laptop is being slow.

Try to run your ad-aware (full scan) and DELETE all of the threads. Maybe
using a second Anti-Spyware application like Microsoft Anti-Spyware or Spybot
will do the job. Scan your system for virusses using an anti-virus
application (like Norton/McAfee/Bitdefender) and empty temp. folders (like
c:\documents&settings\"username"\local settings\temp).

To speed up your laptop, there are many little things you can do. Try google
(tune up XP/fast XP)

hope this helps.

Regards
 
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One more question and I'm through for the night. When running
AdAware, laptop shows over 2500 running processes. What is a running
process? Is 2500 too many? Could that have anything to do with the
laptop being so slow? Thanks again.
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Kathy,

I think you mean process modules, not running modules . I have no spyware &
ad-aware still shows 1,147 running modules. I'm not completely sure but I
think Ad-aware considers a running module a .dll file that is in use. But
2,500 does seem like a lot though.

Drew
 
hmm, could you make a print screen or export a log file and send it to my
e-mail address? Maybe than we can fix this issue
 
I will certainly try. This is daughters laptop and i think she needs a crash
course in maintenance. I will try to forward that right now. You all are
great. Thanks.
 
To all,
For the good of the newsgroup, here's a pic of my Ad-aware scan after a full
system scan. As you can see I have no spyware, 28 running processes, but
have 1,228 Process Modules running. I also use 3 other spyware apps
(PestPatrol, Spyware Dr. & Microsoft Antispyware), plus Norton Antivirus
2005 so I'm positive I have no spyware or viruses on my computer.

http://members.fortunecity.com/drewtognola/scanresult.htm
Drew
 
Drew, i just tried to email a log file to you. Don't be surprised if I
didn't do it right. Just let me know and I'll try it again. And on this
scan, the running processes was 45 and modules was 2147. Sorry. Hard to
diagnose a problem if not provided with accurate facts, huh? Thanks to
everyone again.
 
Kathy,

The e-mail address listed isn't active anymore. Can you resend it to:
(e-mail address removed) and I'll take a look. I'm not sure when I'll get a
chance to reply back however (to this newsgroup). Thanks.

Drew
 
Kathy said:
One more question and I'm through for the night. When running AdAware,
laptop shows over 2500 running processes. What is a running process? Is 2500
too many? Could that have anything to do with the laptop being so slow?
Thanks again.
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Kathy, all anti-malware scans need to be done in safe mode.

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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