Help me:

[s_vicky]

My Problem:

I have COMODO Firewall Pro,SpyBot,Avast 4.8 home edtion.
My system very slow at start up.
Why?
Please solve my problem.

Thanks.

[Dynash]

Get more RAM? Clean it up a bit? De-frag? Make sure the fans are clean?

[Decker]

Uninstall Comodo to start with and try either Zone Alarm or Sunbelt free versions.

Then try the above except more RAM, and finally try more RAM.

Basic spec of the machine would help us a bit though :)

[Reaper28]

Spyware or Viruses can slow down your system, u scanned recently ??

[Deltaforce229]

Do not get zone alarm it bogs down your system a great deal. I have avast myself and whats seems to cause any slowness I receive is when its downloading daily updates.

Few suggestions though (follow in order)

Scan the system with spybot.
Scan the system with some kind of anti-malware software. (I used a-squared)
Scan the system with Avast
Get a copy of SpeeDefrag and run it. http://www.download.com/SpeeDefrag/3000-2086_4-10491590.html (It reboots your pc and runs only defrag.exe, defrags your system in seconds)
You may also want to try JKDefrag http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Hope that helps.

[s_vicky]

I have 1 GB RAM.
I think its enough.

@Deltaforce229
Thanks

[Dynash]

Do not get zone alarm it bogs down your system a great deal. I have avast myself and whats seems to cause any slowness I receive is when its downloading daily updates.

Few suggestions though (follow in order)

Scan the system with spybot.
Scan the system with some kind of anti-malware software. (I used a-squared)
Scan the system with Avast
Get a copy of SpeeDefrag and run it. http://www.download.com/SpeeDefrag/3000-2086_4-10491590.html (It reboots your pc and runs only defrag.exe, defrags your system in seconds)
You may also want to try JKDefrag http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Hope that helps.

that de-frag program, sure it does it in seconds.
i read it, all it says is "shuts down PC, Refreshes your RAM, only loads that program", so it doesn't have to process all the other programs, which makes it lag, so it would still take hours.. and 1GB RAM means nothing, if we don't know what you run, and your OS. If you are using Vista, then 1GB is the minimum, and if it was me, i would get more.

[s_vicky]

I have Windows XP

[TryUsOut]

Maybe you got so many programs running on start-up. Use msconfig (start >> run >> type in msconfig on the run box) to disbale the unnecessary programs that load up during start-ups.

[Deltaforce229]

Dynash I should not have said seconds, Rather I should have said minutes. Speeefrag only took 5 minutes to Defrag my 180gb hard drive.

[Decker]

Speeefrag only took 5 minutes to Defrag my 180gb hard drive.

A lot of factors can effect that process though, Perfect Disk only takes about 4 in an MMC window to do my laptops 250G SATA drive so it's all relative :)

Either way a defrag never hurts when a system slows down whatever you use (and some are better than others yes).

Vicky even with 1G RAM XP can slow up a bit depending on config, might be worth tweaking advanced system propoerties and making your page file a 1.5G permenant as I'll guess it's system managed. You can set it manually to say 1500M in both min and max, reboot (it will be slow this time as it builds the pagefile) then it won't have to build the page file at each boot which can speed it up quite a bit.

If your going to change the pagefile setup do this first;
Set pagefile to none, reboot, defrag, setup pagefile, reboot, your done :)

[YourData1st]

First thing I would do is invest in a program call called whats running (http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx) (its free). I'd look to see whats eating up resources.

then I would...


Maybe you got so many programs running on start-up. Use msconfig (start >> run >> type in msconfig on the run box) to disbale the unnecessary programs that load up during start-ups.

[TryUsOut]

First thing I would do is invest in a program call called whats running (http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx) (its free). I'd look to see whats eating up resources.

then I would...
Hey nice link ;)

I usually search on Google for the description of the files and see if they are trojans, malware, etc.