I have a 2.5 yr old Dell Laptop with a celeron 2.3 GHZ processor and 256 mb of ram, im running Win XP. I have 18 GB of HD,I am using 9 GB. I have Mcafee Virus scan, and I even downloaded Spybot search and destroy, as well as spyware doctor. I ran the spyware doctor and it came back with 1100 items. I ran a spybot S&Dscan which returned 50 items. I then ran a MCafee scan and it came back with 7 viruses, and I deleted everything.
Now My computer is still very slow. I recently added a wireless adapter and connected to the internet. I notice that sometimes my computer seems to run a little faster and then boggs down.
I used the msconfig to turn off some programs at startup, such as
Real one player update,
Quicktime task,
Microsoft Money,
svcshost, & wvsvc (whats this?)
also a blank space where nothing was written,
adobe
outlook,
there is also a program running on startup called BCMSMMSG what is this?
What can I do?buy more Ram maybe?Can i upgrade this comp?
2006-06-09
01:00:58
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