After I have been surfing for a while my computer slows to a crawl and I have to reboot to get the speed back. Why is this happening, and can I stop it without rebooting?
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- Thread starter Quest4Less
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stay away from Adaware.Esco! said:
They also put adware on your comp and helps attract other spyware to make it seem more effective.
Just use spybot and a virus cleaner that has a spyware offering. That should take care of most of your problems.
many, do a search.
Housecall by microtrend is pretty good. You dont' even have to download, it does it online.
Cheers.
Housecall by microtrend is pretty good. You dont' even have to download, it does it online.
Cheers.
A few important things to consider
1. What verision of windows are you running. All verision have memory leaks that eat up valuable RAM. One tried and true method is periodically shut down your computer, thus flushing the memory.
2. I recommend for most home user the following two very important pieces of protection. One is AVG Anti-Virus from Grisoft. Its available for free "home" use at www.grisoft.com . The second most important piece of mind is Microsoft's Anti-spyware, free to everyone that has legit copies of Windows 2000 or XP on thier system.
3. Do you have a firewall enabled and is it blocking more than you think, most out of the box software firewalls are way to restrictive. Custom set your existing firewall or if you don't have one get one...
Quest4Less said:
1. What verision of windows are you running. All verision have memory leaks that eat up valuable RAM. One tried and true method is periodically shut down your computer, thus flushing the memory.
2. I recommend for most home user the following two very important pieces of protection. One is AVG Anti-Virus from Grisoft. Its available for free "home" use at www.grisoft.com . The second most important piece of mind is Microsoft's Anti-spyware, free to everyone that has legit copies of Windows 2000 or XP on thier system.
3. Do you have a firewall enabled and is it blocking more than you think, most out of the box software firewalls are way to restrictive. Custom set your existing firewall or if you don't have one get one...
Why hasn't anybody told the OP that he would lose all his free neat programs he got along with adware when he cleans it up?
Personally, I don't use Adaware anymore. It wiped out my bookmarks a while back and I've never used it since.
Anti-spy is available
Microshaft has offered the "free" anti-spyware to registered and legit 2000 and XP users. There are a few sites around that have the program (no windows verification needed), down load it and it will update as usual.
Meister said:
Microshaft has offered the "free" anti-spyware to registered and legit 2000 and XP users. There are a few sites around that have the program (no windows verification needed), down load it and it will update as usual.
Info...
It's definately not spyware as I scan on a regular basis. I have a very old computer so it's probably the buffer in memory as someone suggested.
Is there a way to clear your buffer without rebooting?
It's definately not spyware as I scan on a regular basis. I have a very old computer so it's probably the buffer in memory as someone suggested.
Is there a way to clear your buffer without rebooting?
Quest4Less said:
There are some memory programs you can get,search the net,ramcheck,rambooster etc.But with PC's being sold for under 600 bucks,and refurbs for 3 or 400 hundred why not upgrade.
These ram checks are all but obsolete if you have xp.
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One more thing
assuming XP type OS
CTL-Alt-Del.
have a look a task manager, click on Process tab
then click cpu column, it'll order most active tasks to,
system idle should be very top around 98% on clean box
if its showing iexplore, around the top, highlight it , then click end process,
re-start your browser, should be fast again.
... OR
take a look at the other processes under same list, see what is eating resources, mem, cpu , peak mem etc.
shut down various processes untill computer speeds up, if something frigs up, just reboot and start over.
assuming XP type OS
CTL-Alt-Del.
have a look a task manager, click on Process tab
then click cpu column, it'll order most active tasks to,
system idle should be very top around 98% on clean box
if its showing iexplore, around the top, highlight it , then click end process,
re-start your browser, should be fast again.
... OR
take a look at the other processes under same list, see what is eating resources, mem, cpu , peak mem etc.
shut down various processes untill computer speeds up, if something frigs up, just reboot and start over.
ruck said:
That's interesting. I've been using Ad-Aware (and Spybot) for about two years now and have not had it find anything more than a few tracking cookies from the few times I use Internet Explorer. If what you say is true I should have found something more significant in that time.
I have also used it to successfully clean a number of friends' machines. I convinced them switch away from Internet Explorer, Outlook and MSN Messenger and now when they use Ad-Aware they no longer find anything.
