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Originally posted by blessedguy
Well, since last week, my pc started to get slower and slower, don't know why.
Speed is relative and your computer does more than one thing.
What exactly is slow? Try to answer that, with some possible answers being the startup time, opening all programs, using programs (non-Internet related, e.g. Word), using programs which access the Internet.
Next, open Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Delete or right click the task bar) and go to the Performance tab. I am looking at XP at the moment, Vista may be a little different. It's the tab with the CPU usage graphs and statistics. Without any CPU-intensive programs open (you can leave various background things running, like Messenger), it should show a spike where you opened it, but stay fluctuating between 0 and less than 10% as you watch it over time.
If it stays high or frequently spikes to 50% or more, switch to the Processes tab, tick "Show processes from all users" box, and watch the list, specifically the CPU usage column. Normally it will show 95+% going to the "System Idle Process", with zeros across the board briefly turning into occasional low numbers, as various processes running in the background do things. If anything is using lots of your CPU, this is where you would usually see what.
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Originally posted by Chancer
Why the hell you use so many anti-viruses/spywares/etc?
While you can have more than one passive scanner software installed, be aware that antivirus and anti-spyware programs that perform any kind of "active monitoring" usually don't play well together, and that's most of them these days. You should aim to have only one of those. This could be your problem.
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Originally posted by blessedguy
6Kb/sec download speed?
If your "slowness" isn't your computer but actually your Internet connection, that will probably be something you will have to take up with your ISP.
