1. Since you uninstalled Norton, and until you download new AV program, make sure, Windows firewall is on:
Go Start>Control Panel. Double click on the
Security Center icon. Click on the
Windows Firewall icon beneath the status updates. Click
On, then OK.
2. You have very little RAM - 248MB. With this amount of RAM, XP
will be slow, no matter what you do. We can adjust your computer behavior only so much. You need to get more RAM.
3. Process Explorer shows normal CPU usage (System Idle Process at 94.03%).
4. Now, we can disable some unnecessary startups (no actual programs will be removed).
* I recommend, you unistall Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is a resource hog, and install
FoxIt Reader:
http://www.filehippo...download_foxit/, which is much smaller, and faster. It does very same thing.
* Open
Autoruns, click on
Logon tab, and UN-check following items":
- AlcxMonitor (also delete
alcxmntr.exe file from c:\windows)
- HP Software Update
- hpqSRMon
- IgfxTray
- nwiz
- StorageGuard
- SunJavaUpdateSched
- TkBellExe
- Compaq Connections.lnk
- HP Digital Imaging Monitor.lnk
- Quicken Scheduled Updates.lnk
- MSMSGS
- NVIEW
5. Close Autoruns, restart computer.
6. Download
Temp File Cleaner (TFC)Double click on
TFC.exe to run the program.
Click on
Start button to begin cleaning process.
TFC will close all running programs, and it
may ask you to restart computer.
7. Defrag.