Slow said:
I had to reformat my entire computer due to someone else being where
they shouldn't have been. It is very slow! I looked through the Dos
system to make sure all was well and it seems to be and none of the
previous personal files are left. I keep thinking that maybe I am
missing drivers. Before, this computer was lightening fast. Any
suggestions?
Since you are using the word "reformat" as if it implies you reinstalled the
operating system, the most current drivers, all patches and updates and the
likes... I don't know.
Perhaps if you expanded on what exactly you did.. How you disconnected the
computer from the Internet before deleting all current partitions with the
bootable Windows XP CD and created new partitions so it was a fresh
installation. How - after the installation, you took the latest hardware
drivers for your PC (chipset, video, controller, sound, network and so on)
and installed them, then proceeded to install SP2 and make sure the Windows
Firewall was on before connecting to the Internet. Then - you connected to
the Internet and went to
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ to install all
critical updates - avoiding the hardware ones - as those are always better
from the actual manufacturer of said hardware. After that - you installed
and updated your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware applications - immunizing and
protecting your system from problems those things could bring to the
machine. Then you proceeded to install the remainder of the software, check
the drive(s) for errors (CHKDSK) and then defragment for good measure.
Turned off/on the system restore so that you have only one restoration point
to start with - the first "good one" if you will. Then you proceeded to
tweak your system with TweakUI and other bits of knowledge you collected
over time and off Google searches to make the machine seem as fast as
possible - getting rid of unnecessary services and applications..
