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Ustorque
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 04:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

im at my inlaws for the weekend, and im trying to use their pc. this is the slowest pc i've ever seen and im baffled at what it could be.

ive run the disk cleanup and defragged cleaned out cookies and tempfiles and it's still crazy slow. click on an icon from the main screen and it takes about 10 minutes to open the file. it's running xp any help would be appreciated.
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Glitch
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 04:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

http://malwarebytes.org/
It'll clean you up
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Guell
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 04:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

download crap cleaner also, youd be amazed at all the stuff it removes that isnt needed.
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Froggy
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 04:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Without seeing it or knowing the details, I would say it spyware and/or viruses. Run Malwarebytes, that should get most of it. Spybot Search & Destroy is also good. SuperAntispyware seems to be new and pretty good.
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Swordsman
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 04:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Look and see what programs are running at the bottom right. My mom had one of those realtime weather programs, and it was an unbelievable resource hog. You could also pull up the Task manager and see which processes are sucking the most memory. If the name is just a crazy jumble of letters, you can do a search on the net to see if it's a valid process.

~SM
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 06:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ok, so its a printer, but its my favorite method of repair for a PC too
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Madduck
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 06:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You might want to check the anti-spyware software that may be running in the background. My pctools stuff is good but it takes forever to run its scans when starting up. Some of the protective software is more annoying than the occasional virus.
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Ustorque
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 06:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

thanks for the input guys.....it's slowly gettin better.
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 04:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You haven't said what it is yet.

It could be a Pentium III 500 w/ 128mb of ram...
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Reepicheep
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Technically, that was a fax : )

For spyware, it can be a real struggle, and at the end you will never really know if you got it all or not. I prefer to start with a clean OS install to a formatted disk and build it back to what I want...
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