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 Aug 5 2008, 07:35 AM
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My computer is running reallly slow and I want to know a good program to download to get rid of virus that are on the computer and to delete them..So whats a good preferably *FREE* program.. Thank you!
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Aug 5 2008, 07:57 AM
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 Tick tock, Bill Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948 |
Have you tried AVG?
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Aug 5 2008, 08:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 143 Joined: Jul 2008 Member No: 665,856 |
thnx i just downloaded it
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Aug 5 2008, 09:49 AM
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 poison Group: Official Member Posts: 4,806 Joined: Mar 2008 Member No: 629,020 |
Also what might help is try deleting stuff in your recycling bin AND your temporary folder
and to get there go to Start > Run > and type in %temp% |
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Aug 5 2008, 04:26 PM
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You also may want to try doing a disk cleanup, and clearing out your recycle bin.
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Aug 5 2008, 04:56 PM
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Tick tock, Bill Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948 |
You know it's funny, disk cleanups never seem to help with sluggish processing times for me. Sometimes a disk defrag will, but lately I'm starting to think that the faster speed is all in my head. lol
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Aug 10 2008, 08:20 AM
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most of the time when my friends computer is running slow its because he has too many start up programs. go to Start > Run > type 'msconfig' and go to the 'startup' tab and clean up some of the stuff you don't need when windows starts up. 'Services' is anouther tab to clean stuff up in but if you don't know what your doing you can really mess some things up.
As for viruses 'Avast Antivirus' and 'Spybot Search and Destroy'. |
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Aug 10 2008, 08:29 AM
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Quick trick is to clear up unnecessary files on your desktop and place other icons in folders
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Aug 10 2008, 09:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 41 Joined: Aug 2008 Member No: 675,652 |
Cleaning up files isn't going to help much. It's just going to make more hard drive space. Any speed increase wouldn't be noticeable.
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