pc is not right

[RickG]

Hi all, hope someone here can help me out. Lately my pc has been very slow to respond. When I try to open Int Explorer or my email, once I click, I see just the desktop for about 10 seconds, the page will open, then the body of it will be blank for maybe another 10-15 seconds. If i click

[Wingo]

How many background apps do you have running? If you have too many it can slow you down. Also how much ram are you running and how much of it is being used? You could try Nick's tuning guide http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1208959973

[waspiflab]

yeah try and uninstall crap you don't use, go into old folders etc and delete them, like above how much do you have running in the background ie the tool bar bottm right of screen because when you boot a pc it has to run all that crap.
It's very much like us in the morning, s@@t, shower, shave then eventually out the door
ps. no sticking your fingers in the psu BZZZZZZZZZ

[RickG]

Hi guys. Well, it seems I have 9 things running per that lower right toolbar. Is that a lot? Mostly they are related to anti virus etc. There is one tho, a "Safely Remove Hardware" one that if I click it, it shows my drive C, and drive E. Seems odd to me. Oh, and all these apps are pretty much what has been there for years. As far as Nick's guides---well, if he posted 'em, I probably have done them.  Too bad I cant poke my finger inside the psu tho--was lookin for a cheap thrill.  

[waspiflab]

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-A ... tag=button

[NickN]

this definitely sounds like an infested system.. malware, spyware, virus

other than that some kind of OS corruption or hardware failure but my bet is on INFESTED

[ozzy72]

I'd start by going into your command line and going to C:\ then do del *.png /s/q followed by del *.tmp /s/q. That'll clear a load of junk off the drive.
Then install SpyBot and AdAware and run them and do a virus scan.
Next install EasyCleaner and get it to remove any Duplicates and then clean the Registry. By the end of that you'll have an efficient system

[RickG]

Hi again. I do have all of these suggested AV, adawares, spybots and cleaners, and do use them very regularly. In fact, I have virus scanned with 4 different scanners over the last week--never found any infections. Adaware or spybot did find 1 tracking cookie, but that was new.  Ozzy, I am unsure about how to do that command line bit you mention-how does one do that?  Thanks for all your thoughts guys.  Rick

[HarvesteR]

Just a thought:

Ozzy, aren't PNGs image files? is deleting them all a good thing? I mean, I wouldn't ever do that on my pc since I got a lot of work saved in .png format

[ozzy72]

PNGs are old internet page files. Clearing the TMP and PNGs off will free up a lot of space on an HD and make things run better.
I was just trying to suggest a good way with a couple of bits of freeware to clean up rather than having to rebuild a system

[NickN]

careful

PNGs are Portable Network Graphics files used by many programs and also by graphics devs all the time. If you have Adobe Photshop installed you will wipe out its PNG sample database

[RickG]

Hi. Well, I did all the new suggestions but sadly, no noticeable difference. That Easycleaner did find and clean lotsa junk tho, so that's good. No photoshhop here, so that's not a worry.  Any other thoughts?  Thanks again.  Rick

[Hagar]

Did you try Malwarebytes? That finds things that Spybot can't.

[RickG]

Hi Hagar. Yeah I have Malwarebytes, CCleaner, Adaware, Spybot and Avast Av. Have also checked with AVG and a Windows Live One Care thing - (I think that's what it's called). Any scans always come up clean.  Thanks tho.  Rick