Slow laptop

[Stickman]

Hey guy, I'm not really computer savvy at all so this may come off with a simple answer but I need help. My laptop all of a sudden became really really slow. It was very much out of the blue that it got slow. From when I flip it open to the time I'm actually able to surf the internet could take 10-20 minutes. Quite often once I finally get on the internet it will randomly slow down and I get the hourglass turning forever. I have after half an hour turned it off and took the battery out a few times.

It's not like I have movies and a lot of shit on there either.

I did a disk clean up, what else can I do? Help a lad out.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

You probably have a virus.

I'll let someone else put in the effort to give you programs.

[Stickman]

I just deleted a bunch of shit. I have a bunch of shit still on there but i dont' know what they are. There's like 36448781 adobe things, and 348743 microsoft things. I dont' know if they need to be uninstalled or anything.

[1up]

My best suggestion would be to try something called Hijackthis

Google it :).

[Stickman]

My best suggestion would be to try something called Hijackthis

Google it :).

Anybody else use this? Hard to trust some guy with less than 100 posts.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

I have.

But you have to sift through a lot (potentially) of results to figure out the crap that's mixed in.

You can run it and post the log here to show us what's running.

[Tb1]

Minimize start-up programs
AVG/Avira Antivirus
Defrag

Should help.

[Stickman]

how to i minimize start up programs and defrage?

and by avg you mean update?

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Do you even have an antivirus program?

If you don't, get one.

If you do, run it.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Or if you want a quick scan: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1551-malwarebyte-s-anti-malware-tutorial

[Vietnamese Crippler]

And I'm still assuming you have a virus since your computer slowed down out of the blue.

[Stickman]

I do have anti virus. I have a hunch that my problem might be that I have two. AVG and Shaw (shaw is who I buy my internet from).

Today it just took me the last 30 minutes to get online...now that I'm on it's fine.