Papou,
Firstly please do not click on any of the advertisements to the left and right of the PCPitstop scan. You do not need them, we can correct for free the few things needed to enhance your working computer.
Next I suggest you download and run
ATF-Cleaner.exe by Atribune once a week to keep all temporary files and other items cleared in your system.
In addition to my last post, would you please consider doing the following to improve the speed of your great system. Yes, it is a very good computer with little wrong and we can improve the speed I am sure.
By now you would have defragged C:\Drive which would improve things somewhat. The Systems Restore suggestion would free up hard drive space only. Having more restored folders is not necessary.
You are a gamer I see, so speed is all important for you.
You have
LimeWire installed, that is a P2P Network Sharing program that I do not advise and we do not help with P2p installations. I suggest you uninstall it. It is a sure way of attracting Malware/Spyware.
Do you use
Windows live Messenger? If not uninstall it also.
Your
HJT installation is old, I suggest you uninstall it and download and install the new version.
RealPlayer is my worst nightmare, it is a resource hogger, takes over your system with constant pop-ups asking for this and that (in my opinion), so I would uninstall it and download and install
Windows Media Player 11.
You have three out of date Java Runtime versions installed, please uninstall them through Add and Remove. They are Versions 2,3,and 5. Always uninstall the old versions after downloading the latest which you have installed being "Java Runtime 6 update 7".
I also do not like Adobe Reader, it is also a resource hogger, so I suggest you uninstall it after downloading to your desktop
Foxit Reader which is free and a much smaller program that does almost the same thing.
I notice you have two installations of Spyware Search installed, one on the 10/03/07 and the other on 10/01/08. Please look in your
Add and Remove if they are both showing I would uninstall the earlier one.
Your Windows Updates look current, but please check through Windows that you have all the required updates on your system.
You have
only 26 processes running which is a breath of fresh air, most folk have up wards of 40 to 50, which takes some time in paring them down to only the necessary needed. However we can improve this to make your system boot up, close down, and run more quickly.
When you have your PCPitstop test open, click on the heading Software/Processes, where it tells you in colored text about your processes running. If you click on each individually it will tell you what they are, and you can decide if you need any or all of any given section. I caution you to be careful, as you will read that some are essential for the smooth running of your system. There certainly are 6 there that you could consider disabling in Msconfig > Startup tab > untick/disable. You are only taking out the shortcuts here, so the program will start from manual when you need it when surfing the internet.
In the option list, there is one called
SPEECH I have it disabled on my systems and advise it, but as you are French make sure you read up about it before disabling it as my first language is English and I do not need it at all. If you click on it, it will tell you why it is there and if you don't need it, then disable please. Anything underlined as you know you can click on and get the information about it, then judge what you want to really do with it.
Here is more information regarding cftmon:
ctfmon.exe supports speech input in Windows/Office.
In Office this process has been known to consume significant resources, especially processor time, if it is not configured correctly or is turned on by accident.
If you are not using this, is safe to disable it.
When you have done all the suggestions above, please do another PCPitstop test and post it here again as you did the last one so I can see the improvement to your system. Hopefully you will also see it speed up a little by doing the steps suggested.
One of the suggestions in the initial Summary of your test is to
Change Internet Receive Buffer.
Please
do not use the tool advised for this as it is not necessary. Your internet download and upload speed look very good, so I would ignore it and not change a thing.
As earlier stated, you have a fine system.
Since I have started compiling this post for you I see you have defragged and corrected your restore points. Good work, please tell me if there is any improvement in the running of your system yet? Can I
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kind regards,
Just by your first answer you brought back a smile in my face ( and the wife too). Thank you for tacking time to look a my problem. As for Tomk in malware team, we did some last try scan yesterday but couldn't find anything so he told me to contact your team. So yes I have been cleared by him. Let's try new stuff now!!
Looking foward to work with you, thanks.
Papou
