I was having the same kind of problem. I opened up processes in Ctrl+At+Del
and there were about 250 processes running. I noticed that there were many
many copies of 'anotify.exe' and each were 200 MB. I started deleting them
and noticed that an AOL file was increasing each time I deleted the smaller
file. I googled 'anotify.exe' and found out it's an AOL file. I deleted
AOL IM entirely and now my computer runs just fine. I also renamed the AOL
file that insisted on starting itself and downloading more of itself.
Forgot to add that I deleted unused programs. I was at the point I was
ready to reformat, but decided to look for horses before I looked for zebras
and it worked. I suppose I am learning something from reading posts from
this list. Thanks, everybody.
Brenda Dencer, Maryland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Weaver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Slow computer
> You probably have every piece of software and every service starting with
> the boot up.
> To avoid 'getting yourself into bad, bad trouble', I believe you can run a
> trial of Tuneup Utilities available from www.tune-up.com (you might even
> consider purchasing). This program has has a range of clean up and tune up
> facilities and has a simple 'start up manager' where you can streamline
> and
> speed your start up. It also will check and clean up your registry.
> If you can afford it, the biggest improvement in performance would be
> achieved by increasing the amount of ram you have.
> Bob Weaver
>
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Reggkay
> Sent: Saturday, 30 December 2006 4:42 PM
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> Subject: [PCSOFT] Slow computer
>
> Hi,
> My mother-in-laws computer is running really slow. It has been defragged,
> scanned, I've run spy-bot, ad-aware, and Norton. Nothing is helping. At
> boot up, from the time that the wallpaper appears, it takes 14 minutes for
> it all to load. Even after it starts there is a delay between tasks of up
> to a minute. Say I open a program it could take up to a minute to open.
> I've looked in all the places I know to to clean out things (Add and
> removed
> programs, start up file, etc.) Any ideas what I need to do to clean up
> this
> computer?
> Dell Demension 2400
> XP home addition
> Pentium 4 cpu 2.4 ghz
> 128 mb ram
> Please make all answers as easy to understand as possible. I know just
> enough to get myself into bad, bad trouble. =0)) Thanks in advance!
> Regina Long
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