Had TomK look at my logs and provide assistance and he suggested to post my link here to see if anyone is able to provide some tune ups and/or suggestions to help speed up my PC. Please see link below and any and all assistance is greatly appreciated!
You've got too many "make your computer run good" programs for your computer.
First, tell me how much RAM you have and how much is available. Open task manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-ESC. Click the "Performance" tab, and under the "Physical Memory" section tell me how much memory total you have, and how much is available.
Second, give me a list of your startup items and service items. Here's how:
How to use CodeStuff Starter to view services and startup items:
Thanks for the information. I will review your attachments.
In the meantime, could you please run the PCPitStop Overdrive tests so we can get an overview of your system's performance and health.
Here's how:
How to run PCPitStop's Overdrive tests:
Please click here to go to the PCPitStop Overdrive sign-up page: Signup at PCPitStop (You need to use Internet Explorer with this test so that an ActiveX control can be installed.)
Click "Create a free account"
Enter in your relevant information on the sign-up page. You must sign-up in order to have your results recorded so that we can take a look at them here.
After signing up you'll see the "Registration Complete" page, and you can click "Test Your System Now" to return to the test page.
Login with your newly created e-mail address and password on the left hand side.
Follow the directions to "Scan this system now." An activeX control will need to be installed. It is safe, and you should allow it to be installed.
Once the tests have been run, you will see an "Almost there" page requesting further information about your computer and your experience with PCPitStop, just scroll down to the bottom and click "GO."
A test results page will display, and I need the link to that page.
Look in the address bar of your browser. It will look like 'http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/…' Please copy and paste that here to the forum.
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Can you describe what the two drives are in your system.. One is a 20Gb drive and one is 120GB drive. One appears to be an external drive connected via USB possibly?
The weird thing is that your C: drive is the 20GB and is labeled as your backup drive?
Please click start -> run -> type cmd and press ENTER.
At the command prompt, type: echo %systemdrive% and press ENTER.
Tell me what drive letter it tells you…
When you say your computer runs slow, could you be a little more specific as to what you may be doing that is slow? Can you describe if the problem is specific to certain activities you are performing, or overall?
I am not seeing anything too specific that would be causing a significant slow down, so is the slow down extreme, or just overall it seems to performing a little poorer than expected?
I certainly see some things that can be tuned up to improve performance. If your slow down is minor this is probably all you need. However, if it is significant, there may be other hardware or software trouble. Please elaborate.. Thank you.
I have 2 HHD and when I upgraded to WIN XP Pro, for some reason it changed my drive numbers. So, my back up HHD is C for 20GB and my main drive is D 120GB.
I have 2 profiles and for some reason, when clicking either Mozilla Firefox, IE8 or even programs like my Windows Explorer, etc. they seem to take some time to load.
Ok.. Lets tune some things up and see if that helps.
First, go into add/remove programs. Find the comodo product that is installed (Boclean?) and uninstall it. It is no longer supported and shouldn't be running along with your Avira. Do not reboot after the uninstall. Also, uninstall any IObit software (Advanced SystemCare). These kind of programs have little to no value whatsoever, and in my opinion to have them running on a well tuned PC can only slow it down. Do not reboot if prompted to do so, yet.
Now, open Starter (you previously installed). Click on the Startups tab and uncheck the following programs, and answer yes to disable.
If you are a FireFox user, you may want to enable Firefox Preloader again as it does speed up the starting of FF considerably. To do this it keeps a part of FF resident in memory so it will reduce the memory available for other applications.
Yes, all 3 IE8, Mozilla Firefox and WIN Explorer start much faster than before; so I would say it has been resolved unless you have other tweaks to improve even faster loads…
Well, with the browsers (I am speaking more for Internet Explorer, than Firefox, because I rarely use Firefox) if you have toolbars and add-ons loaded they can slow the load times down significantly. If you have a lot of toolbars, like google, yahoo, ask, etc… then you may want to go into control panel -> add/remove programs and uninstall them. This will help your browser perform better and probably prevent some problems with those certain add-ons. I'm pretty sure I only saw the google toolbar installed in your HJT log. So, you are probably ok, except any toolbars will slow the load times down a little bit.
Other than that, if things are running good. I see no reason to tweak anything else.
Also, if your computer still takes a significant amount of time to boot up, there may be some other issues to be addressed.
Well, I actually had it turned off this morning and when I got home just now to turn it on, it did take a long time to show my desktop icons to allow me to do anything; what could cause this? As I stated before, my IE/Firefox, etc open up faster now.
