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Computer running SUPER SLOW! =( HDD LED stays on

Started by Ashley Poole , Jun 08 2009 02:52 PM

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jstarling

Posted 02 October 2012 - 06:20 PM

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I have a Toshiba, that I purchased about a year ago. It started to become slow during start-up and it takes awhile to open different websites. I have Norton and I've used it to tune-up my computer or clean-it up but I'm not sure what else to do. I am not computer savvy and many people have suggested "clearing cookies", "cleaning up hard-drive", and "stopping start up programs", but since I am too afraid to mess things up more, I haven't done anything but what Norton offers. Any help would be great. Thanks

#17
rockmilk

Posted 02 October 2012 - 06:34 PM

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Please start your own topic in the link below with the following info.
http://www.geekstogo...do=new_post&f=5

Please download MINITOOLBOX and run it.
http://download.blee...MiniToolBox.exe

Checkmark following boxes:

Report IE Proxy Settings
Report FF Proxy Settings
List content of Hosts
List IP configuration
List Winsock Entries
List last 10 Event Viewer log
List Installed Programs
List Users, Partitions and Memory size
List Devices (problems only)

Click Go and post the result.

Download Autoruns and Autorunsc Unzip it to your desktop and then double click autoruns.exe After the scan is finished then click on File>>>>>>>>>>>Save The default name will be autoruns.arn make sure to save it as Autoruns.txt under the file type option. in other words make sure it is a .txt file instead of .arn Attach the text in your next reply.

http://download.sysi...es/Autoruns.zip