My mate computer is slow down and do u have any idea to speed up?

[Hotshot]

I have notice that my mates computer (AMD Athlon 2400+(2 GHZ) with 256MB Ram) is gone very slow and I told him that it look like he got computer virus in his computer.

So I did clear the cookie and also I used hijackthis.exe to get rid of shit stuff on his computer.....

what else do I need to get rid of stuff on his computer to stop from slowing down.

I would be delight if you could help me

cheers

[va!n]

Download AutoRuns (its free)... and check what stuff has been added to the boot starting sequence and remove unneeded stuff! Use NOD32 viruskiller (its really very good and its not resource hungry!) or something to scan the system... DOwnload SeeknDestroy (spyware remover)... Defrag the harddrive... If you invest some time in alll this parts, he PC should run again faster... Btw, adding 256 MB more memory would help too

[Shockwave]

As Va!n says, upgrading the computers memory is the best way .

Open it up and you will see pairs of slots for memory, it's best to buy them in pairs, you could probably get a couple of 533mhz Sdram pretty cheap these days.

Make sure that you put your fastest memory closest to your processor.

I'd say to add at least 1gb of memory and then you'll really notice it.
Adding faster and more memory is the best way of speeding up a slow pc.

[Hotshot]

I have checked boot starting sequence and there is nothing to it which is good news as the windows start up is getting abit faster. I have download AutoRuns,NOD32 viruskiller(yes I agree...this is very good )
So far it doing good then I will download SeeknDestroy (spyware remover) then
Defrag the harddrive. thanks vains and shocky....yes I do know that having more RAM does help the computer go FASTER!  I let u know how it go.

He say he going to give AMD Althon 2GHZ to his son to play the games and nothing else.

I have told him to get core 2 duo E4400 which mean he can overclock to 3GHZ with strong ram( 2GB of ballatic  sorry for spelling) and if he want to play latest games then Geforce 8800GT graphics cards would be good too. He ask me if I build a pc for him when he got the moneys and I say that isnt a problem.

cheers

[combatking0]

(This applies to Windows XP, not sure abouth other OS's.)

Have you tried to clear the prefetch folder?

The c:/WINDOWS/Prefetch/ folder contains data on all programs ever run on the machine since its creation (or since the last time the folder was cleared), even if they've only ever been used once. These are loaded into the RAM automatically, to save time loading the whole program into the RAM on the fly.

Clear it out, restart the computer, it will take a little longer while it re-writes the essential files during first start-up, but after that it should show a small improvement in performance.

[Jim]

you could probably get a couple of 533mhz Sdram pretty cheap these days

You'd be surprised.  DDR2 is cheaper than DDR is cheaper than SDRAM.
Here's the best prices from my local stockist:
1Gb (2x512) SDRAM - $220
1Gb (1x1Gb) DDR - $77
1Gb (1x1Gb) DDR2- $77
Pretty amazing!

Better off seeing if you can get some from a computer fair selling old parts, because 256Mb is absolutely the bare minimum for XP.

BTW, you haven't just installed Nero have you?  That has a process called Nero Scout which is a total resource hog, killing hard disk perfomance and eating all your RAM.  It does this even if you elect not to install Scout during install.  Pure evil.

If you like, post a Hijackthis log here and we can take a look at what's running.

Jim

[va!n]

The c:/WINDOWS/Prefetch/ folder contains data on all programs ever run on the machine since its creation (or since the last time the folder was cleared), even if they've only ever been used once. These are loaded into the RAM automatically, to save time loading the whole program into the RAM on the fly.

Clear it out, restart the computer, it will take a little longer while it re-writes the essential files during first start-up, but after that it should show a small improvement in performance.

Ahhhhh very interesting! Never heard about that before. There is really no problem to mark just all files in that folder and delete them without getting windows more and more unstable or something? O.o

[Yaloopy]

(This applies to Windows XP, not sure abouth other OS's.)

Have you tried to clear the prefetch folder?

The c:/WINDOWS/Prefetch/ folder contains data on all programs ever run on the machine since its creation (or since the last time the folder was cleared), even if they've only ever been used once. These are loaded into the RAM automatically, to save time loading the whole program into the RAM on the fly.

Clear it out, restart the computer, it will take a little longer while it re-writes the essential files during first start-up, but after that it should show a small improvement in performance.

No3d.exe had a file in there. LOL