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Do you have a PC? Do you have an anti-virus program installed? It sounds like you do. The program will slow down your computer. That's one of the reasons I use Mac. Try to undo automatic scanning. I would just use it once in a while, not every time you log in.

13 years ago. Rating: 4
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I don't have a PC and I forget, I would need to see it. It's easy. I'm sure someone can direct you to do it.-How to Format C Drive?

13 years ago. Rating: 3
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I have a MACBOOK. I haven’t had a problem that was not easily fixed by MAC Service on-line or by phone in the 3 years that I have owned it. MACs don’t get viruses, registry errors or blue screens…whatever that is. Before I bought a MAC I worked on my many PCs since 1980~ and the 8080 personal computer was the first one I owned. It required learning to write programs. Having a MAC is like buying a riding horse that is rider ready, rather than a Wild Thing that is born to kick your arass.

13 years ago. Rating: 2
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If you format the hard drive you will lose your operator system, so unless you have a recovery disc, don't do it. You need an anti- virus program and you should have an anti-malware program. Both can be downloaded free from the link I'm listing below. You should get into safe mode (tap the F8 key immediately after turning the computer on) and scan your computer with both programs and remove any problems they find.
You also should defragment the C drive at least once per month. You also might not have enough free memory on the C drive.
P.S. From the link below, I like AVG Free and Malwarebytes:

http://ratamacu.freeshell.org/SimplyComputersWiki/wiki.php/Main/WhyIsMyComputerActingFunny?from=Main.Spyware

13 years ago. Rating: 2
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dhs, cia, fbi, maulware, alienware M15x, over heating, firefox using all your memory to protact you, viruses or spyware

13 years ago. Rating: 2
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Dump the anti virus you have now. It sounds like it's the type that adds tracking cookies to your computer. Tracking cookies are the number one culprit for slowing down a computer's operations. They are energy whores to put it bluntly. They use a lot of your computers resources which means wasted energy. Install AVG, it does not add tracking cookies to your computer and removes the cookies the paid for anti virus's ignore and leave. It will only leave the cookies that are pertinent to how you use you computer.

AVG Free (use the green download button) http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition-2011/3000-2239_4-10320142.html

Next, install malwarebytes (Again, use the green download button) http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Once both are installed, delete your cookies, close all pages and restart your computer. If you know how to get into the safe mode on your computer, do that. Once in safe mode, open malwarebytes. Set it to run a deep scan. This can take hours so set it to run when you're finished with the computer for the night. When you check the report after it's finished it's scan, quarantine everything it found. Even if some of what it found is labeled a mild thread. It's still a tracking cookie you do not need. You should run malwarebytes once a week on deep scan but you have to update it before you run it. It does not auto update. Remember to delete your cookies,close all pages and go into safe mode before you run it.

Lastly install Ccleaner. This is a computer cleaner. It cleans up the junk floating around in your computer that anti virus's do not see as threats but can slow down your computer's performance. It's also a registry cleaner and removes unused and old registry entries and repairs broken ones .This can be run daily (takes less than a minute) and will let you know when it needs to be updated. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

13 years ago. Rating: 1
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where's colleen when you need her? there' an absolutly free site https://www.housecallstrendmicro.com that will scan for virius ,trojans as well as cookies.. ect and repair as well . its worked great for me you got nothing to lose.

13 years ago. Rating: 1
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