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Please help!! Now I am very frustrated. I just typed my whole message and went to post and my session had "timed out" I had to go re sign in and now my whole message is gone and i have to retype it....here goes. I have a nice computer; Pentium 4 2.54 GHz processor, 248 MB RAM, 56k v.92 modem. Still has about 93% free disk space. It is responding sluggish. When I click the mouse button too much time passes before the computer responds. What ever the problem is is very evident when I go on line. It takes a good 5 minutes for a web page to load. When I tried to load a page with Adobe pdf file on it, my web software completely stopped responding--every time I attempted to access the page. Per the web tech support's advice, I completely dumped and reinstalled my web software, after we had exhausted all of the normal trouble shooting exercises for a slow moving computer. I came to realize that it may be an XP or hardware problem on my computer. I run my virus software frequently--everything there is fine. I defrag my computer often--everything there is fine. I went through all of the diagnosis' and computer check ups I could understand to run on my own. I have absolutely no idea what the problem is. I know something is definitely wrong, because my computer used to be much faster. I am pretty naive with computer problems, so I could really use some helpful advice--in simpletons terms please.
Thank you so much

Kathy

 

[Nasty]

Try adaware 6.0 spyware remover....works like a charm

Please help!! Now I am very frustrated. I just typed my whole message

and went to post and my session had "timed out" I had to go re sign in and
now my whole message is gone and i have to retype it....here goes. I have a
nice computer; Pentium 4 2.54 GHz processor, 248 MB RAM, 56k v.92 modem.
Still has about 93% free disk space. It is responding sluggish. When I
click the mouse button too much time passes before the computer responds.
What ever the problem is is very evident when I go on line. It takes a good
5 minutes for a web page to load. When I tried to load a page with Adobe
pdf file on it, my web software completely stopped responding--every time I
attempted to access the page. Per the web tech support's advice, I
completely dumped and reinstalled my web software, after we had exhausted
all of the normal trouble shooting exercises for a slow moving computer. I
came to realize that it may be an XP or hardware problem on my computer. I
run my virus software frequently--everything there is fine. I defrag my
computer often--everything there is fine. I went through all of the
diagnosis' and computer check ups I could understand to run on my own. I
have absolutely no idea what the problem is. I know something is definitely
wrong, because my computer used to be much faster. I am pretty naive with
computer problems, so I could really use some helpful advice--in simpletons
terms please.

 

[dev]

/cadfans/ said:

Please help!! Now I am very frustrated. I just typed my whole message and went to post and my session had "timed out" I had to go re sign in and now my whole message is gone and i have to retype it....here goes. I have a nice computer; Pentium 4 2.54 GHz processor, 248 MB RAM, 56k v.92 modem. Still has about 93% free disk space. It is responding sluggish. When I click the mouse button too much time passes before the computer responds. What ever the problem is is very evident when I go on line. It takes a good 5 minutes for a web page to load. When I tried to load a page with Adobe pdf file on it, my web software completely stopped responding--every time I attempted to access the page. Per the web tech support's advice, I completely dumped and reinstalled my web software, after we had exhausted all of the normal trouble shooting exercises for a slow moving computer. I came to realize that it may be an XP or hardware problem on my computer. I run my virus softwar

e frequently--everything there is fine. I defrag my computer often--everything there is fine. I went through all of the diagnosis' and computer check ups I could understand to run on my own. I have absolutely no idea what the problem is. I know something is definitely wrong, because my computer used to be much faster. I am pretty naive with computer problems, so I could really use some helpful advice--in simpletons terms please.

Thank you so much

http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/northrup/restoreperf.asp

 

[Kevin]

I would scan with Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-aware and Pest Patrol.
While you're at it, clean out the Temporary Internet Files folder and your
cookies as well. It sounds like an infected system to me. Make sure you
don't have too many applications running in the background.

Please help!! Now I am very frustrated. I just typed my whole message

and went to post and my session had "timed out" I had to go re sign in and
now my whole message is gone and i have to retype it....here goes. I have a
nice computer; Pentium 4 2.54 GHz processor, 248 MB RAM, 56k v.92 modem.
Still has about 93% free disk space. It is responding sluggish. When I
click the mouse button too much time passes before the computer responds.
What ever the problem is is very evident when I go on line. It takes a good
5 minutes for a web page to load. When I tried to load a page with Adobe
pdf file on it, my web software completely stopped responding--every time I
attempted to access the page. Per the web tech support's advice, I
completely dumped and reinstalled my web software, after we had exhausted
all of the normal trouble shooting exercises for a slow moving computer. I
came to realize that it may be an XP or hardware problem on my computer. I
run my virus software frequently--everything there is fine. I defrag my
computer often--everything there is fine. I went through all of the
diagnosis' and computer check ups I could understand to run on my own. I
have absolutely no idea what the problem is. I know something is definitely
wrong, because my computer used to be much faster. I am pretty naive with
computer problems, so I could really use some helpful advice--in simpletons
terms please.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Kathy;
Start here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm


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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

Please help!! Now I am very frustrated. I just typed my whole

message and went to post and my session had "timed out" I had to go re
sign in and now my whole message is gone and i have to retype
it....here goes. I have a nice computer; Pentium 4 2.54 GHz
processor, 248 MB RAM, 56k v.92 modem. Still has about 93% free disk
space. It is responding sluggish. When I click the mouse button too
much time passes before the computer responds. What ever the problem
is is very evident when I go on line. It takes a good 5 minutes for a
web page to load. When I tried to load a page with Adobe pdf file on
it, my web software completely stopped responding--every time I
attempted to access the page. Per the web tech support's advice, I
completely dumped and reinstalled my web software, after we had
exhausted all of the normal trouble shooting exercises for a slow
moving computer. I came to realize that it may be an XP or hardware
problem on my computer. I run my virus software
frequently--everything there is fine. I defrag my computer
often--everything there is fine. I went through all of the diagnosis'
and computer check ups I could understand to run on my own. I have
absolutely no idea what the problem is. I know something is
definitely wrong, because my computer used to be much faster. I am
pretty naive with computer problems, so I could really use some
helpful advice--in simpletons terms please.

 

[Guest]

http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/northrup/restoreperf.asp

--
For most XP answers and tweaks...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
http://dougknox.com http://aumha.org
http://support.microsoft.com

Thank you all for the help. I downloaded and ran adaware and cwshredder. It helped a little bit. I had no major parasites but it caught 47 different little things. My online web page loading is still dreadfully slow. In response to cleaning out temp internet files and cookies. I have done all of that, but thank you for the suggestion. Please keep the suggestions coming, I am doing it all. Thank you
Kathy