Computer is slow!?

Question

I am really bad with computers! My computer is really slow. I have Norton installed, but thats about all I know. It scans and says no viruses. Is there stuff I can do, to make it go faster? please help!

Answer 1

According to your description,there are some regsitry errors in your PC to cause "Computer slow".You need to clean you PC.
Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the registry.You need to scan and clean your PC with registry cleaner to make your pc faste.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your PC and Internet performance dramatically.It even can speed up your PC by 300% or more!
There are some comparison and review of
TOP 5 registry cleaners.
http://www.registry-Cleaners.info

You can download and scan your PC for free.

Answer 2

Yes there are many ways to make your computer faster. Firstly, you can get rid of adware/spyware that might be on your computer. To get rid of them, i recommend using Ad-Aware, Spybot: Search and Destroy and AVG Anti-Spyware which are available for free to download from the internet. Secondly, you can clear out unnecessary files and fix registry issues using CCleaner, which is also available to download from the Internet. A website where you can get all 4 of the programs that i have recommended are from www.filehippo.com.
You can also try to defragment your hard drive by simply going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter, To defragment your hard drive, click the Defragment button. The process will take quite a while to complete so i recommend that you do it overnight or something. By using Disk Defragmenter, this will just rearrange files around on the hard drive to increase access speed.

I hope this helps to make you computer much faster.

Answer 3

i don't know for sure, but my uncle who is pretty good with computers and has four, plus one in his car, told me norton antivirus slows a computer. he also said XP is slow.

i think you should get a sypware/adware remover if you dont already, all those tracking things that give you ads can slow it down significantly. maybe your memory is full. if it is frequently checking the hard drive, (you hear a noise like a c.d. spinning,) it doesn't have enough RAM, so is writing to temporary files on the hard drive. have you defraged it recently, or cleaned the registry. if it is old it may just have a slow processor.

Answer 4

Scan your PC with this to see if you have spyware. Spyware will slow down your PC.Also, Norton itself with slow it down becuase it a resource hog.
This is free.

http://superantispyware.com/
SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!
Easily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!

Answer 5

A clean computer is key to a faster computer. Run the 3 scans below.

Run a virus scan weekly.

Update and run your Anti-Virus program. Don't have one? You can run a free online scan from CA.
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virus...



Run Spybot and Adaware weekly.


Download, update and run Spybot---http://www.safer-networking.org/... . Don't forget to use the Immunize feature.

Download, update and run Adaware---http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw...



Now to prevent spyware from being installed in the first place....




Download SpywareBlaster---http://majorgeeks.com/download2859.html

SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed.

It's main features include:
- Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.
- Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
- Restrict the actions of potentially dangerous sites in Internet Explorer.






Now lets clean up your registry.


Run RegScrubXP weekly. Run Cleanup every time you log off.


Download RegScrubXP--http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?d...

Safely cleans junk out of the Windows 2000/XP system registry. All changes made to the registry are fully restorable to it's original condition. You can make an exclusion list of registry entries that RegScrubXP will not display as problems. You can sift through a list of file extensions, company names, run upon startup programs, Internet Explorer history, and uninstall programs to delete what you think is junk.

Download CleanUp---http://www.stevengould.org/software/clea...

Free disk space, make your computer run better/faster and protect your privacy - all in one easy solution. All for free!





Now lets clean up your disk.



Run a Disk Cleanup 2 times a month. Run Disk Defrag. monthly.


Do a Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag. You can find both of them by following the path below.
Start>all programs>accessories>system tools>Disk Cleanup. Let it do its thing. You can check every box that has something to delete.
Now follow the same path and do a Disk Defrag. Again just let it do its thing.




Now lets tweak your connection.


If your speed is good I would not mess with it by trying to tweak it. If you do tweak once it is done you should not have to do it every again.


There are many programs out there to do this. I will give you 2 of them.
The first one is TCP Optimizer.

Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php....

You can get support for the best way to set it up right from their forum http://forums.speedguide.net/

The second one is Cablenut.

Windows XP tested and approved

CableNut is a tool for optimizing your Internet Connection. We have provided a way to tweak any option you may want to in the adjuster. You can load "CableNut Custom Setting" files that are included with the program to tweak your Internet connection.

http://www.cablenut.com/

Again support is available right from their forum.http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?p...




All programs are FREE!




After applying the suggestions above you will have a clean and faster computer. Enjoy.

Answer 6

Is it an updated Norton Virus? It could be out of date.

Answer 7

Your computer is so not properly installed you couldn't even imagine just go to the website below and see for yourself.

Answer 8

you need to delete your temporary files, and do a defrag and a disk clean up. that will improve your speed.you can click on tools and delete your browsing history, thats your temporary files.

Answer 9

Many things can make it slow , Try shutting it off and then reboot.