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Hi Sandy,
Go to: www.lavasoft.com and download the latest 'free' version of
Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition. It looks for an entirely different
criteria than SpyBot and often finds a lot of stuff that SpyBot didn't.
There are things called 'tracking cookies' placed on your system by
malicious websites and Ad-Aware is really good at detecting those and
allowing you to remove them. I find that can speed things up a lot.
Also, you mention your wireless feed is also slowing down. Your
browser may be a fault here. Are you using the latest version of
Firefox. It's a much better and much more secure browser than Internet
Explorer and can be set up to _NOT_ allow websites' attempts to strat
scripts in the background to snoop around on your system. Firefox uses
an add-on call NoScript for this feature and I love it. It totally shuts
down browser-slowing scripts everywhere.
As well, have you flushed your cache lately? A full cache on many of
the newer computers can total as much as 500 gigabytes (not kidding here,
I saw one recently). Since your computer attempts to index everything and
keep track of everything it really doesn't need to, your cache can slow
your browser to absolute crawl or shut it down completely. Go into your
options and flush your cache the next time you run your system.
Next, have you emptied your Recycle Bin lately? This is a travestry
thrust upon the PC world by those trying to create a Trash-caching system
like the Mac world had (and it never really worked all that great there
either). Your Recycle Bin holds everything you think you've deleted but
you've, basically, just moved into another folder and which your computer,
of course, will attempt to index, slowing everything down again. Have you
tried running Disk Cleanup in your Programs/Accessories/SystemTools?.
This will allow your computer to also find stuff it no longer needs needs
and will clean it out.
I wouldn't really run any registry cleaners unless you know exactly
what you're doing. Cleaning out needed registry pointers and codes can
crash your system even before you get back up to your desktop as generic
registry cleaners can take stuff out that is needed by other programs and,
although you can reverse the cleaning, sometimes you can't get the
computer up to the point at which it gives you the option to un-clean and
then you're in trouble. Best to leave the registy out of this for now
and work on cleaning up the stuff which won't mess up your computer.
Tony @ CCN Help
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Alexander E. Mackinnon wrote:
> Hi Userhelp:
>
> I have a particular vexatious computer problem that has occurred within the
> last couple of weeks.
>
> My computer has become very slow ?logging? on to the internet but even when I
> have Internet access it can be slow ?logging? on to various sites, so much so
> I eventually have to give up. There have been times lately when I have been
> unable to log into chebucto despite having access to Google, or once I am
> into the Chebucto home site it takes so long to access my mail I am timed
> out.
>
> Frankly, however, the problem is not longer isolated to Chebucto. It happens
> lately when I try to access most internet cites. It seems more pronounced
> with respect to trying to access Chebucto but it no longer is isolated to
> Chebucto.
>
> I have checked (by Phone) and confirmed Google is working fine.
>
> Other background information that may be useful, I access by computer by
> wireless with permission from a neighbour who lives in the apartment
> immediately next door. It has worked fine up until now. I have also run a
> virus check with both Spybot and Avira ( free) anti-virus programs I have
> installed and they report no problems.
>
> I would like to say the problem is periodic ,and there are times when I can
> obtain access to Internet and progress to other cites in a timely manner, but
> lately not so much . It is becoming almost a chronic problem.
>
> I did receive advice recently ,during a call to Chebucto, to check via the
> Command Prompt to see how quickly the server Allaint was processing and it
> seemed normal ( according to the tech). I am aware Alliant sometimes is part
> of the problem but this seems to be a new or different problem. The
> suggestion was made that it may be electronic interference or even the
> weather which all seemed plausible with the stormy humid weather lately but
> the situation persists and I am back looking for more advice.
>
> I would appreciate your suggestions please. ( Keep in mind computer is
> essential for my communication . I use it everyday but I am not very
> knowledgeable about technical aspects. )
>
> I have checked on the Internet and see a program called Registry Patrol at
> this cite: http://registrypatrol.com/ that seems like it may offer a good
> diagnostic service . Would this be a safe and/or wise program for me to use?
>
> Sandy
>
>
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