My computer seems to be running really slow!?

Question

i know that it could be a number of things but i was wanting to know whats the best thing to do about it? i turn my computer on and it run's perfectly for about 20 to 40 mins and then everything starts getting slow i mean really slow clicking webpages takes 5 mins opening any program takes 5 mins and like its almost frozen. i know it could be a virus or spyware i do have spybot but nothing shows when i run that. i was thinking about backing up all my important files to disk and then reinstalling windows vista what do you think?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Run AdAware and AVG.

I generally discourage 'scans', but it seems so much of this generation lacks common sense..

Answer 3

For running slow there are many causes:

Microsoft Registry Problems = Slow Computer!

Spyware/Adware

RAM

De-Fragmenting

Etc.

Below can help you speed up your pc:

Manage your startup:

Open your Start menu  ->  Click Run ->  In the command screen type "msconfig.exe" ->  In the "system configuration utility", click either "service" or "startup" tab ->  Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.

De-Fragmenting

1. Right click of C Disk.

2. Click properties.

3. Click tools tab.

4. Click "Defragment now".

5. Click Defragment.

You can search which process full use you cpu, and end the process.

Under steps:

1. right click on the TaskBar.

2. click the Task Manager.

3. click the processes tab.

4. double click the CPU.

5. find if the "System Idle Process" is max.

6. if not right click and click end process.

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Answer 4

Hello From the Tech

Couple of things here

#1 it sounds as if you have a computer virus... a lot of trojan or worm viruses are ment to do silly stuff such as a that. If this is the case a windows reload in eminent. Make sure you save all your pictures - mail addy book and document files.

#2 your computer cookies and temp internet files are really overloaded and the computer needs a file clean up...cleaning out by going to Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Clean Up = Run that program and check off all items with numbers in them and hit ok...it there are a lot of big numbers there it will take some time for that to run through even up to 30 - 50 minutes. Then do 3 disk defrags under the same guide line under heading of System Tools.

#3 Hit Start > Run and type msconfig and follow to the startup tab and see if it is listed in there. I will provide a web site that is very good at letting you know if you need certain programs running just type them in the search and follow instructions it will speed your system up ....smiles ....the first site explains msconfig and the second searches your inputs you copy from your start up tab to see if you need them or not.

Hope this helps, have a gr8 day,

NightHawk

Answer 5

You can try running a virus scanner like PC tools anti-virus or bit defender anti-virus to see if that works (Click the Link)

You probably might need more ram because you might be running too many processes

Next, you could reinstall windows to see if that solves the problem (last resort)

Answer 6

well 1st of all how much ram memory do you have?

Answer 7

I don't know much about Vista but it could be you don't have enough RAM but I don't think that is likely.  Do you have a firewall installed?  If you do you should check to see if the port permissions are set properly.  Should be some sort of options clickable the firewall settings are important because there is worm protection it would make it so programs are not run unless you give it permission.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.

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You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer 10

once i had this problem and i was confused just like you but now i know how to fix it.

just do what i am going to tell you.

first you must download utorrent

from :

http://utorrent.com/

then go to :

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4233045...

actully i called it windows 7 but it is windows vista

then start it

for the activating code

download the windows activator from:

http://www.ziddu.com/download.php?uid=Z6...

and download it

hope this problem got fixed

Answer 11

Try running CCleaner, it deletes alot of temp files that never been deleted, so if you accidentally downloaded a virus that is still in the temp folder, CCleaner can remove, plus CCleaner is opensource!