Slow computer [Solved]

I am posting because I was working on this with Ken.  The top was closed.  it is my wife's computer so I cannot always use it so did not post in time.  Sorry.  Here is FRST file.  When I ran this it closed my browser (Google) and then I went to the history and it was not there.  Is there an easy way to recover the history without clicking each entry separately?  Thanks for thehelp.GB

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Morning

Sorry about closing your thread but its our policy if no reply in 3 days we close it and I gave you 4. Next time if your going to be away just give me a heads up and I will keep it open for you.

As far as your History, our tools clean them out, just start going to the sites you frequent and build up your history again. When you get to the site or sites you like just Bookmark them and then you will always have them

How is your system running now, any better ?

Ken

I understand your policy.  Sorry it took longer than 3 days.  Sometimes the computer works pretty good.  I noticed that when I did the last cleaning tools,  i am not sure if it was the tools or something else around that time but I have duckduckgo as the default search engine.  i did not download it knowingly.  It does not seem that bad of search engine but I had Google before and like google better.  Sometimes the computer is very slow like now.  I notice it is slower after it goes in sleep mode and then someone uses it.  i don't know why that would happen but it does.  Thanks for the help.  With the history, I understand how it works.  When I go through or my wife goes through the email, we click on a link and keep on clicking on links we like and then look at the links later so we do not keep going back and forth so the links that disappear, we are not sure exactly which ones we opened and are not the links that we use every day.  

Thanks

I just had to shut down the computer because it was taking at least a minute from the time i clicked on a link to the time it actually opened.  it took 10 minutes or so to shut down.  it did not shut down so I just pressed the off button and after it  restarted it seems to be working okay.

Thanks

Your logs appear to be ok, not looking at any malware that could be causing this.  How old is your computer, it maybe a hardware problem if it takes that long to start up and shut down.

Duckduckgo is very reputable search engine and very safe to use.  But if you want to make Google your default you can do this

Ken,

I put Google back as the default SE.   I seem to get better results searching with Google.  I did read about duckduckgo and it seemed okay but I cannot figure out how it became our default SE.  Weird.  I am not sure how old the computer is. As I said before I tends to bog down more after it goes into sleep mode or sometimes if we have a lot of tabs open.   I bought it used a year ago.I think it probably needs more RAM.  Here are the specs:  2 GB RAM;  2.2 GHz. 32 GB  HD (I think)  I don;t know if I can install more RAM.  I will check.  

Thanks for your help.

GB

Is this a laptop or desktop computer ?

You dont have a lot or ram installed , one of the best upgrades you can do to improve system performance on a computer is add more memory. I used to be a system builder all I ever used was Crucial  Memory.  You can go to there site and plug in the make and model of your computer or you can download and run there System Scanner that will tell you exactly what you have and if its upgradable and what they recommend.  Adding memory is very easy but if your not up to it if and when you purchase it you can take it to a local shop and have them do it for you

 http://www.crucial.com/

I just checked with Crucial.  The computer is a laptop.  I can upgrade to 4 Gigs.  I don't have the money right now though.  I have another notebook that has 2 Gigs and they told me I cannot upgrade it because the memory is soldered in.

Thanks

GB

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