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Originally Posted by The Snake
Try this. If its not a windows 2000 machine. Go to Start, Run and type in msconfig.
Click on the startup tab. Uncheck stuff that isn't essential to windows. Like if you have AIM or Real Player or all that type of stuff appearing next to the time when you start up make sure anything related to them is unchecked. Also any stuff like Easy CD creator can go. This won't delete them, it just makes sure they won't start right when you boot up. When you're done, hit Apply and then let the computer restart. Also, even though like you said, it may take a while, go to the start menu again and go to Programs and find the section that says Startup. Delete any links in this part by right clicking them and deleting them. Again this won't delete the programs, just keep them from starting at boot. See if this helps you out any. You may have to reboot a time or two while the computer gets itself reconfigured depending on which Windows you're using.
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Yeah, I did try that - the startup menu in the start menu is completely empty. I did the msconfig too, and I deleted everything I could, and then looked up some of the programs that I didn't know what were, and most were legit.
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Originally Posted by Vega
1) Run Disk Cleanup
2) Go to IE > Options and delete all files and cookies
3) Run scandisk if your running an old enough version of windows to have it
4) download a virus checker and check for viruses
5) DL a spyware detector and check for spyware
6) Defrag
should be fine if you do all that, you probably don't need to reformat.
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1. What exactly do you mean by that exactly? If you mean delete unneeded programs and the like, I did that already - I have about 3 or 4 gig free.
2. I did that, except for the cookies - I should do that, but I need to use a lot of them. I'll try that though.
3. Done, several times
4. Yeah, I have Norton and it detected and deleted several viruses ("Download" virus in particular which tends to download other viruses). However it has reappeared several times (the infected file) so I suspect that it's source is still around somewhere.
5. Did that
6. I haven't done that either lately, I did it once a few months ago but I've been meaning to try it again. In my experience, this hasn't usually had a huge effect on performance.
Thanks for the help guys, I'll try some of that stuff. Does anybody else have any suggestions or ideas?