Windows running very slowly

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I helped a friend sort out her laptop at the weekend using LogMeIn. She had three anti virus programs installed so I uninstalled AVG, an additional component of AVG, McAfee and left MSE on. I also uinstalled other programs that weren't needed such as Live Essentials, some IE tool bars and a couple of programs that weren't used any more. I also stopped a couple of programs (e.g. Kodak Easy Share) from starting when Windows loads through MSConfig. After all of this we ran a CCleaner, Malwarebytes scan and a full scan in MSE. Since all of this the laptop has become extremely slow and I am not sure why. Could it be indexing? The laptop is running Vista.
 
Sounds like Vista is indexing after all the changes.

How much memory does the laptop have? I found with Vista if you have 2GB or more then that normally means Vista should run okay.

1GB or less and Vista runs real bad.

Swapping for an SSD would also make a world of difference.
 
Can't remember - I believe 2GB though I was never a fan of Vista coupled with 2Gb. SSD is something for another day, one thing at a time for her. Should I leave it to do its thing or turn it off? I did all of that stuff on Sunday and it was still running bad last night.
 
leave it on for a few hours (and dont let it go to sleep)

I removed mcrappy and avg from a few machines recently and several have started (maybe related maybe jsut coincidence) .NET updates the ones that then use all the CPU cycles to compile some crud....

you could look to see if anythign is eating all the CPU time - but other than that leave it on for a few hours if it is running it will give it time to finish

ALSO .net is a right ass pain... once you reboot it may well trash the machine again with updates to the updates that updated the update.. that need compiling again...
 
I will do another remote session at the weekend and run another CCleaner & defrag whilst checking .net and what else is using the CPU. Cheers.
 
Check event viewer, may be a problem with the hard drive. It's harder to tell when you connect remotely.
 
xibinim said:
I am not familiar with event viewer, how does it help check if there is a problem with the HD?
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It's a log of the events that occur on that computer, you can find it under administrative tools (look in the control panel if you've not noticed it before).

A lot of the time you can resolve problems by using the exact error code on Google to find others who've also had the same or similar problems and reading the steps they took to resolve or at the very least an explanation as to what the exact cause of your problem is.
 
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