Jul
I don't know what I did, but recently (past 3 or 4 days) my computer has been lagging horrible. A week ago it was running fine. I think it started when I went to a site and downloaded something to view a video.
Anwyay, my computer lags online and when opening/closing programs. Like WMP for example, when it opens it does not respond for a good minute then when it plays a song it could go unresponsive for 20 minutes. Also on the web I am getting a lot of pop ups and general lag which I’ve not gotten before.
I also get random IE errors (something about C Runtime blah blah). Trend Micro won't run a scan either.. it says the scan failed and to seek online help. I went to their site and did a free scan and nothing showed up but this problem hasn't happened prior to this week so I’m set on the fact that there’s something in it.
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If you know what you downloaded remove it, download firefox it's way more secure the IE,http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/. After you download firefox download Adblock what Adblock does is it prevents popup's that slip under firefox's built in popup blocker. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox… then download all of these, I guarantee you that your computer performance will be much better, I use all of these myself,.
1 Ad-Aware 2008, Much more effective than previous versions and faster, does not suck up system resources like the previous versions, also there various skins to suit your preferences.
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/30…
2 Spybot - Search & Destroy, its a little out of date but it works.
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-De…
3 SpywareBlaster, blocks potentially damaging applications and programs from running.
http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3…
4 Simple File Shredder, it isn't an anti spy, but it shreds unnecessary files including cookies and it speeds up system performance.
http://www.download.com/Simple-File-Shre…
5 MRU-Blaster, detects and cleans MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. By looking at these MRU lists, someone could determine what files you opened/saved/looked at, what their file names were, and much more! (And, in many cases, the lists are displayed in drop-down menus automatically.) (From website.)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublast…
I personally don't like AVG, it screwed up my computer after I Un-Installed it, and avast didn't work for me.
Hope these help.
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