simplemod Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted August 22, 2012 Working on an OLD computer for a friend. A single core Dell, with a 2.66ghz, with 1gig ram, and a MX 420 nvidia card. I have removed a butt load of viruses and malware. all scans now currently come up clean. Malwarebytes, Microsoft Security Essentials, and SpyBot S&D. The computer has very little installed on it, they don't use it very much, the viruses and malware came from Coupon Alerts. There were 137 pieces of it. But anyway, on to the real issue. The pc runs fairly well in Windows (XP by the way, SP3) But the slow down comes on internet browsing. It has Chrome installed and of course IE, but both are very sluggish, basically stock browsers with hardly no additional plugins. This is the pc issue, as I have here at my house, on my internet which is about 14 Mb down, but even just returning search querries on that pc regardless which browser, it takes several seconds, and when you click on a link, it takes forever to move on to it, it's worse than dial up, but I am absolutely sure it's in the PC, and none of my equipment, as everything else works perfect. Anyone, gimmie some ideas, or questions to help come up with some. The only thing I have not tried yet is a new NIC card. Which I may try this afternoon. But some more ideas would be great.
HarryWeezer Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 20166 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 06:49 PM Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 System drag likely caused by years of garbage accumulation in the Registry. Much of the crap you clean off XP boxes leaves pieces of software here and there that are accessed by some process depending on the instruction you give the system. It's just not possible to get rid of it. Back up, format the drive, and reinstall. WiZiD 1 Awards
ROCKAPE Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 172 Topic Count: 1107 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 5186 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 3128 Achievement Points: 43915 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 15 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 16 hours ago Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 Try Install ccleaner and run the registry clean,select all and delete them then do this repeatedly until no issues are found. Damage_inc- and WiZiD 2 Awards
hxtr Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 22, 2012 try reloading.... the safest way to be sure it is clean. If you need help let me know. It is a dell.. very easy to get drivers and shit.
LaRSin Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 982 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 9439 Content Per Day: 1.65 Reputation: 3738 Achievement Points: 68181 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 The only way is to reformat and start over, Then will you know is it software or hardware .. PingLo 1 Awards
Hunter1948 Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.61 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Posted August 22, 2012 Try Install ccleaner and run the registry clean,select all and delete them then do this repeatedly until no issues are found. +1 Awards
billyblade Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 34 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 182 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2097 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1003 Achievement Points: 14880 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12, 2018 Birthday: 04/29/1966 Posted August 22, 2012 ya take a pistol or shotgun, place firly against side of tower and.............BOY HOWDY!!!!!!!! PingLo 1 Awards
fireurza Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2024 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Posted August 22, 2012 clean the registry and check the host file really well alot of viruses can hide themselves in it look for a scroll on the side when checking that... i had one there and not a single viruses scanner found it in there. Awards
loaderXI Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 72 Topic Count: 396 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6439 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 6582 Achievement Points: 54661 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 12:33 AM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 Ccleaner for sure nd another tip uninstall malewarebytes then reinstall from a thumb drive nd update while in safe mode....U will be surprised to find other hidden maleware.... Awards
HarryWeezer Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 20166 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 06:49 PM Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times. WiZiD 1 Awards
loaderXI Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 72 Topic Count: 396 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6439 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 6582 Achievement Points: 54661 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 12:33 AM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted August 22, 2012 Should u reformat save ur configs/profiles to thumb drive Awards
hackeklaus Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 1012 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 935 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 269 Achievement Points: 5547 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 8, 2020 Birthday: 11/23/1987 Posted August 22, 2012 defragmentation helps alot too, if it is really such an old setup than the hdd is mor than ultrafraggmented. if u do a defrag u need at least 15% free space on ur hdd it needs the space for sorting all the stuff. Awards
hxtr Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 22, 2012 Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times. I guess it helps to know what you are doing Harry. hahahaha If you need help backing up your shit.. I will assist you. I will help you get all the drives before you reinstall... but all the cleaners... it will not get them all out. You would have to get HijackThis http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/ and look over the log files or have them read. It is far from easy. You can take the report and post a help question at Experts Exchange http://www.experts-exchange.com/ and have someone there read it. Or you just reload. It is always good to reload.. it gives you a fresh OS.
simplemod Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted August 22, 2012 Thanks for the advice on some, I have already done, CCleaner. Thats one of my favorite free programs. I removed AVG Free, and replaced it with Microsoft Security Essentials. That helped a lot, but not enough to suit me yet. As far as formating and starting over, I would normally agree, but this particular computer that I'm working on is almost stock install as it is. They have not installed hardly anything, just their printer software and 2 or 3 other programs. I did forget about running Malwarebytes in safe mode, thanks for the reminder, I will do that tonight. I'll play on it some more and see how it goes. His own reason for bringing it to me was cause he couldn't get sound to work, got that solved instantly, but the other stuff is just to try and help him out. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll get back to work on it. I've also been reading about the new adobe Flash not wanting to work well with older video cards, causing extremely slow browsing and such. I'll let ya know. hxtr and loaderXI 2
simplemod Posted August 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted August 22, 2012 Still working on it. I have tried to release, flush, and renew. No real improvement. I have ran MB in safemode, and it hasn't found anymore, and now I'm currently running Superantispyware, and it's just finished, and found 8 more threats. Rebooted, and tried browsing again, it seems considerably FASTER!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!!!. Still not as fast as I would like to see, but much more tolerable than it was. I might be ready to give the guys computer back to him now, LOL. Thanks for all the input, I do appreciate the help and ideas.
Darth Yoda Posted August 23, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted August 23, 2012 If you reformat be sure to run killdisk, darrens boot and nuke, or any other program that writes 1s and 0s to the whole drive. Simply reformatting will NOT erase any hidden or encrypted partitions. BUDMAN 1
CobraBites Posted August 23, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted August 23, 2012 also far as a browser go i would try firefox with adblocker plus i started using that and notice that firefox runs faster than most other browsers as well...like someone above said u want to make sure the registry is clean of all garbage as well...also use msconfig and make sure in the start up tab u only have what u need to run the pc on start up only as this will help with speed less things running in system tray the better
CobraBites Posted August 23, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted August 23, 2012 If you reformat be sure to run killdisk, darrens boot and nuke, or any other program that writes 1s and 0s to the whole drive. Simply reformatting will NOT erase any hidden or encrypted partitions. that is true but if u reformat the drive u are reinstalling anyways so if u do that just make sure u delete old partition and then create new one first as this will take care of that issue
WldPenguin Posted August 23, 2012 Member ID: 2995 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 185 Topic Count: 797 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 4723 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 7333 Achievement Points: 51261 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 90 Joined: 11/17/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 02/13/1966 Device: Windows Posted August 23, 2012 ya take a pistol or shotgun, place firly against side of tower and.............BOY HOWDY!!!!!!!! Billy, you always have the BEST solutions to any problem... Awards
xCaliber Posted August 23, 2012 Member ID: 142 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 30 Topic Count: 277 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1986 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 288 Achievement Points: 13866 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 25, 2014 Birthday: 05/01/1985 Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) Delete the %temp% folder from windows. msconfig> uncheck all unnecessary programs.</p> Edited August 23, 2012 by xCaliber WiZiD and simplemod 2
Nobodygood>XI< Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Posted August 26, 2012 Delete all the Prefetch files, will speed the boot up big time. anything in the windows \ prefetch folder is not required Damage_inc- and simplemod 2 Awards
WiZiD Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.64 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted August 26, 2012 Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times. +100 Awards
BigPapaDean Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1211 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6554 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63664 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 01:06 AM Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted August 26, 2012 also far as a browser go i would try firefox with adblocker plus i started using that and notice that firefox runs faster than most other browsers as well...like someone above said u want to make sure the registry is clean of all garbage as well...also use msconfig and make sure in the start up tab u only have what u need to run the pc on start up only as this will help with speed less things running in system tray the better I just disable all start-up and when you use the necessary programs they will again load in the start-up menu! Awards
Tball Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted August 26, 2012 Format C:
simplemod Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted August 26, 2012 The Superantispyware made a major difference. I already gave it back to the guy. Thanks for all the ideas.
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