PC slow down???

[beavereater]

I know we all have slow downs. My friend called me and said that even after running adware and spybot, defraging and editing his startup...he still gets a slow start up in the begining and when he opens something like IE it starts up pretty slow.

Anyway, I am just wondering if anyone can give me a clue as to what it might be before actually going to his place and trying to figure it out??

[SIRCOOKS]

When last has he refomatted, sometimes people just need a cleanup and a fresh installation, then a defrag..thats what i do to cure most slow down ills..holla backi f u need more advice

[gitreel]

You can change your startup time.

[Jayhawk]

Did Spybot and/or Adware find anything ?. Has he run a complete virus check?. How many "running processes" does he have and how many programs are loading at startup? (run msconfig)

[beavereater]

According to what he says (I still haven't seen it first hand) After I formatted his PC about 2 months ago, almost right after there was a slow down. He has defraged, run spybot and Adware, done a full virus check. The only thing he hasn't done is check his start up (He doesn't know how and that's what I am gonna do tonight.) BUT...I don't think that's his problem...we'll see though

[handyguy]

Get Startup cop.

Defrag the registry, you can check it out with Registry Mechanic

download.com should have those in trial versions

[venomva]

Change your statup options with
Start>Run> msconfig

[gitreel]

or adjust your startup time in the control panel.

[simonko]

At the desktop Press:

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Find out what is running and what processes are taking place. Something is there that shouldn't be there.