Slow laptop
 

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.

You probably have a virus.

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

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.

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.

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.

Minimize start-up programs
AVG/Avira Antivirus
Defrag

Should help.

how to i minimize start up programs and defrage?

and by avg you mean update?

Do you even have an antivirus program?

If you don't, get one.

If you do, run it.

Or if you want a quick scan: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1551-malwa...lware-tutorial

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

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.