well for one thing you have a lot of programs running this will slow your computer down also i see you have alot of programs running in the backround aswell over by the clock in that quick link menu.  did you run disk defrag. check for spyware.  also run a registry inspector.  and yea norton does tend to slow your pc i used to use it but i dont anymore due to the lack of performance.  i use and recommend all the pctools that you can find on pctools.com.  i run the spyware antivirus registry mechanic and privacy gaurdian.  with the anti virus activated my computer is slightly slower but not much all and all this products work great for me and i am very pleased with them.  also i recommend diskkeeper 10 its an excelent program much better than the stock windows defrag program good luck

there are 34 things in the start up section... i dont know what any of them are so for the moment i will leave things running smoothly :)

 

Thanks alot

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Cameron2612 wrote:

Ok i have no idea how to get rid of the programs next to the clock, I did not even understand that they were running before now. I did a spyware scan with ewido that my friend lent me and it found 760 items, i have no idea how they got there. Anyway it seems a little faster, not too much however... it is still not normal but it will have to do won't it. Any thuther suggestions would be good

 

 

Thanks

 

Start, Run, Msconfig. Click on Startup Tab. Uncheck everything that this site says you can: www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php. When the computer reboots, check the box that says don't show me this again. If it's X or N, uncheck it.

Ok i have no idea how to get rid of the programs next to the clock, I did not even understand that they were running before now. I did a spyware scan with ewido that my friend lent me and it found 760 items, i have no idea how they got there. Anyway it seems a little faster, not too much however... it is still not normal but it will have to do won't it. Any thuther suggestions would be good

 

 

Thanks