My computer's a bit slow...
I think it has some viruses. I'm using Kaspersky Anti Virus but it can't remove or fix some viruses?
Generally, is it possible to make computers run faster? much faster!
Any help would be appreciated.
2006-08-07 14:17:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Oh, and yeah I use Windows XP...
2006-08-07 14:24:10 · update #1
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2006-08-07 14:21:01 · answer #1 · answered by Sassafrass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would do some spring cleaning such as backing up important stuff and then totally rebuilding from scratch. To have consist ant and smooth operations, you'll have to identify and remove unneeded programs that are eating up your resources and defrag your drives every so often. Also consider this philosophy that the fastest part of your computer is your slowest part. CPU, Motherboard, and Ram create the foundation of your computer and are more integrated, allowing faster responses. However, most of the data will be transferred from your hard drive to be executed in CPU and its framework. Consider that the fastest hard drives, still have a response time in milliseconds (thousandths of a second) and CPU and ram operate in nanoseconds (billionth of a second) that's a difference of a million times. You can install more ram so that you'll be able to run more programs and be less reliant on data retrievals from your hard drive, but ideally, you should do both, get more ram and a faster drive. Price per gigabyte, hard drives are relatively cheap and worth considering.
2006-08-14 02:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by Elliot K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-07 14:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by dt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norton is your first drawback - its **** and steals assets. Did you purchase your laptop prebuilt - if this is the case watch out deficient exceptional add-ons like energy provides, I as soon as located a one hundred fifty watt provide in a HP that ran noticabley quicker with a 350. Have you run any spyware and adware scans? spyware and adware slows down your laptop as good as viruses. Also determine history duties strolling and startup duties. Uninstall unnecesary methods Run a registry cleanser (freeware on web) Are the drives rapid or simply gigantic? that may aspect in as good, so can ram velocity one million gb of 800 Mhz ram is greater than two gb of 333Mhz ram. Good looking
2016-08-28 11:10:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save your ALL of your important files on a CD or memory disks. Reboot your whole computer and it ll work like new. A lot of Anti virus programs cant remove it, so reboot it and it ll be like you just boought it! good luck =D
2006-08-07 14:23:30 · answer #5 · answered by Wonderful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my guy works at best buy in charge of geek squad (use to be a member) and recommends mcafee and norton virus protestion, as for running faster get more memory and install an extra hard drive
2006-08-07 14:22:11 · answer #6 · answered by cassiepiehoney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dude it could be alot of reasons...what size hard drive? do you get pop ups, how much memory do you have? have you upgraded? what windows program are you using?
i suggest: get a bigger hard drive, use a anti virus called avast to help get rid of popups for that program does work, get more memory, and if its an old computer get an upgraded version of windows....
2006-08-07 14:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well what i do is go to the start menu all programs => acesserois=>syestem tools=> disk defrgmenter and when it opens choose a drive and click defragment and wait a while and when its done its a bit faster
2006-08-07 17:12:35 · answer #8 · answered by jeneadiea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get kerio personal firewall, upgrade with some ram, and switch to 365k broadband (cable).
also, stop downloading crap on your computer. download spybot search&destroy and ad-aware SE personal. those are pretty much the best programs. i run spybot and ad-aware every morning (im a bit protective of my computer)
2006-08-15 10:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've never heard of the antivirus program you use. i recommend using norton or symantec antivirus to remove viruses and ad-aware to remove spyware. another helpful program to remove other unnecessary stuff is ccleaner, which removes temp files and tracking cookies.
2006-08-07 14:22:47 · answer #10 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋