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Odin · 29-04-2005, 17:45

Hi all
Have recently hooked up to internet at home. Had usual scares, worrying about trojans, spyware, adware etc (which one to trust). Anyways think I've got all that sorted. Now fully equiped with norton, Ad-aware, spybot and Zonealarm. All scans now show noprobs, but even when not hooked up to internet my PC is soooooooo slow. Startup takes a good 5 mins (have used msconfig.exe) to minimise files loading from boot. Gone through registry.exe. Have I missed something or what???
Maybe it's just my processor cant hack it anymore (Celeron 500MHz, plus 224Mb RAM). Having gone through the trauma of all the above, am now considerring dwnloading some kind of memory manager such as PC mightymax, PC pitstop or tune-up. But due to my growing paranoia I thought I'd best ask round first.

even deleting a shortcut from my desktop takes about 10 seconds, sometimes!
Help!

29-04-2005, 17:45	#12
Odin Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 12	Re: Memory tools Hi all Have recently hooked up to internet at home. Had usual scares, worrying about trojans, spyware, adware etc (which one to trust). Anyways think I've got all that sorted. Now fully equiped with norton, Ad-aware, spybot and Zonealarm. All scans now show noprobs, but even when not hooked up to internet my PC is soooooooo slow. Startup takes a good 5 mins (have used msconfig.exe) to minimise files loading from boot. Gone through registry.exe. Have I missed something or what??? Maybe it's just my processor cant hack it anymore (Celeron 500MHz, plus 224Mb RAM). Having gone through the trauma of all the above, am now considerring dwnloading some kind of memory manager such as PC mightymax, PC pitstop or tune-up. But due to my growing paranoia I thought I'd best ask round first. even deleting a shortcut from my desktop takes about 10 seconds, sometimes! Help!