Pineapple Kid
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Hi All
My gal is griping that her desktop computer ( COMPAQ ) with windows XP
has slowed to a crawl.
I did the disc cleanup and tried to DE Frag but it said it did not need it.
I ran McAfee virus scan and Malwarebytes and both came up clean
Is their any downloads or programs out there that can clean up a computer ( prefer free ones of course )??
Is there anything else I can do ??
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robsouth
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Try deleting McAfee and using AVG free virus protection. McAfee is known to be a resource "hog" and slow things to a crawl. Good luck.
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firecapt1
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Try using this free product to clean your disk and especially your registry of unnecessary items.
CCleaner
Download by selecting the green button on the right that says "Download Latest Version". Install and run especially the registry portion. You'll be surprised what it will find!
Please let us know how this turns out 
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edited 10/25/09 12:23am by firecapt1 *
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dons2346
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Dump McAfee and run the CCleaner. If you have anything Norton, get rid of that also
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CCleaner
Be aware, the first time it may take a little while.
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jliveit
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You might try running "msconfig" and see what all you have running in the background and check off the things you do not want.
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garym114
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Have at least 4 Gigs of free space on the hard drive?
For a great defrag utility try MyDefrag. It used to be JKDefrag when it was open source. One of the best and it is free.
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trop-a-cal
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I wonder if the Microsoft updates done last Tuesday were sent to slow down XP so you would buy Windows 7 and new hardware. Mine slowed down right after it. That can be fixed by restarting it prior to the update.
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Pond Jumper
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One way to get all the junk from running is this.
Start > Help & Support > (pick a task) Use Tools to View Computer info > System Configuration Utility > Open Configuration Utility > click Start Up tab.
Here you see all the programs that are starting up and running in the back ground without you even knowing it.
I clicked all off except my Anti Virus protection and something called "ctfom" operated by Windows because I didn't know what that was. Anyway it got me a start up time of about 3 minutes instead of 20 minutes. I was happy! And NO all these different programs are not gone, just not running until you start them as usuall. + you can always undo this change if you are sweating it by clicking "enable all" in the Start Up tab.
Last word: You will have to re start and then you will get a pop-up that states something about changes being made. Just check the little box or you will get this message each start up.
I'm no whiz, but it worked for me.
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Quote:I did the disc cleanup and tried to DE Frag but it said it did not need it.
Force it to defrag. That utility only recommends defragging when the disk is in horrible shape.
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