Computor extremely slow. Defrag & disc clean no help. Could low to very low signal strength be responsible?

Answer 1

how much hard disk space u have left on the main C drive?

Answer 2

How many processes you have running? What all loads at startup?

Start > Run > MSCONFIG
* go to the STARTUP tab and uncheck things you don't need
* go to the SERVICES tab, check the box Hide All Microsoft Services and go through the list for other stuff you don't need.

Download Microsoft Defender, AdAware, SpyBot - Search & Destroy and run those... could be you have a case of the nasties and you need to clean your PC. Make sure you have a good AntiVirus. Avast and AVG are both FREE and really good. Also make sure you are running a firewall, if nothing else, enable the Microsoft one, or better yet get something like ZoneAlarm.

Clean your registry... you probably have a lot of stuff left over from uninstalling old programs. There are lots of good registry cleaners out there but two good ones are TuneUp Utilities 2007 and TweakNow

AdAware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5

Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D

SpyBot
http://www.spybot.info/en/mirrors/index.html

TuneUp Utilities 2007
http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

TweakNow
http://www.tweaknow.com/products.html

ZoneAlarm
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

Answer 3

Go to the below link and download "Advanced Windows Care Personal" and partway down the page click on the bar that says "Get Freebie"; then install it and run it. As an added tip, run your Defrag utility by booting into Safe Mode first by tapping the F8 key as the pc starts.

Answer 4

follow that ::--

1.CLEAN YOUR TEMPORARY FILES AND OBSOLETE REGISTRY ENTRIES REGULARLY. how ?? --->
Download CCleaner and run it’s Cleaner section, once daily, before shutting down your computer. It removes all the trash files that are created while surfing through the net. Use its Issues section once a while to delete all the unused registry keys. Another good cleaner, Disk Cleaner, can be used along with CCleaner for even better results.

2.REMOVE ALL THE UNWANTED AUTO-START ENTRIES. MOST IMPORTANT PART
If you have a lot of Auto Start entries, then you should remove them. To do so, go to Start > Run. Type 'msconfig' in the box and then click 'Startup' tab. Uncheck anything that is unnecessary. Of course, you can revert that in future. Just go back to MSConfig and check anything back that
you removed from the start-up list. However, you should not remove any of the security related startups (read next point), like the real-time shields of your anti-virus / anti-spyware, firewall etc.

3.KEEP YOUR COMPUTER SAFE AND GET RID OF VIRUSES AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF MALWARE.
Any Windows computer connected to the Internet MUST have an anti-virus, a firewall and and one or two anti-spyware.
They MUST be regularly kept updated with the latest detection databases. The real-time monitoring of the anti-virus and any one of the anti-spyware should always remain active .
I give u some free and good anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall, you can get them get them all:
> Anti-virus: AVG
> Anti-spyware: Spyware Terminator , a-squared Free
> Firewall:Comodo Personal Firewall


N.B. Never keep two anti-virus or firewall on a single system. If you are already using a good anti-virus or firewall, then you need not download the corresponding one. You can, however, use as many anti-spywares as you want, provided you use the real-time protection shield of only one of these.

4.ALWAYS MINIMISE THE USAGE OF RAM.(Only for those with 256MB or less RAM)
For this purpose, you may keep a virtual memory booster as an auto-start entry. It frees the clogged RAM.
I use RAM Booster, which is very effective. Here is the link to download it:
http://www.download.com/rambooster/3000-...
To configure it, please follow these steps:
* Click on Edit > Options and tick the follow options:
(a) Set auto optimisation on
(b) Show CPU usage
(c) Start minimised
(d) Launch automatically at start up
Also, change the ‘Auto Optimisation Level’ and 'MB of RAM to free at auto level' as per your requirement.

5.DON'T JAM YOUR MOTHER DRIVE (C:).
Keep at least 35% of your C: free. Transfer all the music, image and video files to other drives.

6.DEFRAGMENT THE HARD DRIVES PERIODICALLY.
Defragment the hard drives (especially C:) once every month. To defrag, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Defragment. It takes a lot of time (50 minutes or over) so don’t become impatient. It’s for your computer’s good.

7.You may get the free Google Web Accelerator to boost up your Internet speed http://webaccelerator.google.com/

8.ALWAYS KEEP YOUR RECYCLE BIN EMPTY.

-.USE MINIMUM POSSIBLE SHORTCUTS ON YOUR DESKTOP.

9.IF YOU HAVE GENUINE WINDOWS, KEEP IT UPDATED EVERY MONTH. IT HELPS A LOT BY FIXING MANY VULNERABLE SECURITY ISSUES

10.HEAVY GAMES CAN PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON VIRTUAL MEMORY. SO, STAY AWAY FROM THEM IF YOU HAVE 512MB OR LESS RAM.

11.SET YOUR WALLPAPER TO BLANK.
You will hate this suggestion, but believe me; blank wallpaper helps a faster startup.

Note :- when u run antispyware or antivirus run it in safe mode
how --->To do so, go to Start > Run Type 'msconfig' in the box choose diagnostic from the general tabe and retart ur computer run the antispyware and do not forget to do all over
again but choose normal instead of diagnostc

Answer 5

Your system memory could be SMALL, so your computer is always accessing virtual memory on the hard disk (w/c is slow).

Run only ONE application at a time. DO NOT run any other application w/ the web browser open.

RAM is cheap these days. Better buy additional RAM.

Answer 6

you have lots of sound suggestion from others here, you may desire to perform a little issues What length is your puzzling disk (C: tension) do you recognize that a short lived PRINT record can take over one hundred MB based on the complexity of the printout - pics, fonts and so on, this area is barely mandatory till the checklist gets to the printer then that's recovered. So in spite of a small printout you may desire to nonetheless get various warnings, yet later all looks ok Pagefiles additionally take in disk area too. what are yours set too temporary cyber web documents and cookies are the worst culprits additionally you spot your TEMP itemizing - probable in the C:abode windows itemizing = wager what it is for ?? specific for temporary documents in common terms - to not be saved previous your modern-day consultation, so documents in there could circulate, and circulate away it empty. Do you have many fonts?? those additionally take in room too, many BAcKup documents, in the adventure that your computing device is working large right this moment, then final years are ineffective. there is a lot you're able to do to cut back disk utilization, do you examine to verify that each physique documents are faraway from folders once you UNInstall this methodology, while strengthen into the final time you had your registry checked? maximum registry's are lots extra desirable than they could desire to be (a failure of UNInstalls not doing their job ideal - get a registry checker and examine it out. any folders on the C: tension that would not incorporate put in classes - can they be moved to D: tension? those are in common terms some issues to verify

Answer 7

The only thing i could tell you is do a system restore and that will make your computer go back in time and choose a time where the computer didnt get messed up. Of course some data will be lost. Thats what i would do.

Answer 8

1. Run updated antivirus and antispyware.
2. install and run advanced windows care 2 from darkyahoo.com.
3. clear cookies and history.
4. uninstall not needed applications to free hard disk space.
5. open and clean your cpu/tower.