Performance problem with xp pro

[John]

Hi



In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC with
1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only major
change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead.



Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated.



Thanks



Regards

 

[smlunatick]

Hi

In the last few days PC has gone slower and slower. It is a 2.x MHz PC with
1Gb RAM. I ran SpyBot and it did not find any spy ware. The only major
change I can think is dumping Live OneCare and install AVG instead.

Any tip son improving the performance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Regards

OneCare has had bad reviews and has "failed" to help a lot of systems.

As for the slow downs, you need to run other anti-spyware utilities
beside SpyBot. Not every anti-spyware utilities will detect
everything. You should use many different ones and hope that these
can clear out most "infestations."

Other "good" anti-spywares:

AD Aware
Spyware Terminator

 

[R. McCarty]

Also a sudden/noticeable loss of performance may be due to the disk
or volume that holds Windows being in a "Dirty" or inconsistent state.
You can check that from a Command Prompt Window (Type)
Chkdsk C: [Enter]
A cursory or Read-Only pass of Chkdsk will let you know if your
drive is Dirty or Clean and recommend a second pass using /F or /R.

 

[Unknown]

Have you done a disk clean and defrag recently?