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In article <F1043F07-6AC0-4713-AB13-8EDA5C84583A@microsoft.com>,
spencerj13@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> My computer is getting progressively slower in boot up. What is the easiest
> way to speed up?
Download the anti-spyware tools and use them to check to see if you have
nasties running in the background, check for programs you can uninstall,
check to see how much memory is in use (Task Manager, Performance tab)
vs how much you actually have in the computer, defragment your hard
drive, reboot.
The following is a generic list of things to do:
Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.
Also, do not post HiJack log files here - there are HiJack groups for
just that purpose, not to mention all the web based forums setup for
looking at them.
Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.
These sites are for downloading Anti-Spyware tools, in order that I
would use them myself:
AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Ewido Security Suite Trial can be found here:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
The following are two links to Antivirus software in order that I would
use them:
You can also download Symantec Trial version of their Antivirus software
from here:
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/
Download AVG Personal Free edition from here:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
These are the actual vendors sites, not some unknown or authorized no-
name site. They also don't artificially increase the hits for sites that
get paid for the amount of traffic they can generate like one poster has
admitted to in this group.
When running these application, install them, update them, then reboot
in SAFE MODE and run them again to get even more things.
If you take nothing else from this post, remember the following:
Only download files from Trusted Sites.
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