Need computer Help

[Bob Stoops]

All of a sudden, my computer has started to slow down. It just takes a little longer for the webpages to pop up. It is more annoying than anything. I have a cable modem and called cox and they said everything checked out OK. I also ran AVG anti-spyware and that has not fixed the problem.

Any ideas?

 

[redsfann]

are you running the new Internet Explorer 7? If so, thats probably whats slowing down your machine.
I did everything you mentioned here before seeing a thread a week ago here at Jack's about getting rid of IE7. I got rid of it and went back to IE6 and my machine is back to being itself again.

 

[The Boys]

Try deleting old files and defragging, then of course re-boot, might help??

 

[StevieD]

If you have that AVG program in your start up it might be causing you to slow down.

 

[Bob Stoops]

I do not have IE 7. I did delete some old files and I am not sure what defragging is. This just happened literally overnight. Is there some way I can check to see if some processes are running that would be slowing it down. What is ieexplorer.exe? It seems to be using a lot of energy.

 

[bsucards]

ieexplorer.exe is adaware, don't confuse it with iexplorer.exe

Try going here and doing an online scan:
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

Or you can download their program for a trial. You are also going to have to figure how to boot into safe mode on your computer.

Sometimes you push F1, F8, F10, F12 right after a reboot before you see the windows screen,t hat is the most effective way to remove spyware

 

[Glferboy21]

Defrag---> go to start menu...accessories...system tools...disk defrag

Maybe make the switch over to Mozilla Firefox, a lot less spyware and problems.

 

[IntenseOperator]

clear all the cookies and history from your computer

START

Control panel

security center

internet options

hit the general tab

under temp internet files delete all cookies and history