Computer Help!

[RDog 0]

Okay, so I am a computer donk. I have only had my PC for a little over a year but recently it has gotten extremely slow. Poker sites are very choppy, Daniel's blog stop and goes about 20 times for every video blog, etc. At first I thought I had a virus but I have run 3 spy, virus removal type items over it on several occasions. My buddy told me to do msconfig and see what is running in the background and of course there are tons of items. The problem is every time I start removing things it seems to have messed up something else when I reboot. Can someone give me an idea on what items I can/can't remove? Any other ideas on what my computers issue might be? Thanks.

[Squirrelmonger 0]

Download Spybot S&D from here....http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.htmlFollow its instructions, and it should get rid of some spyware/adware that various downloaded poker rooms undoubtedly have put on your computer.It may not fix the problem entirely but its a very solid first step.

[leaffan 0]

if you know how, just format and be done

[RDog 0]

if you know how, just format and be done

Come on now, shouldn't the "computer donk" comment have given away that I have no idea how to do this?

[yergan 0]

Try www.geekstogo.comThey have a step by step process to remove spyware etc. It has about 5 or 6 different programs, all explained really well.

[epistemic 0]

S & D only does so much.Go to www.fileresearchcenter.com , then in the right hand corner you will see an option to see what is running on your computer.Click it, install the plugin to your browser, and it will run the proccesses against their database and highlight malicious programs.

[General Forum 0]

download a program called hijackthisscan computer and save the log filepost log file at www.hijackthis.deread and fix everything that is messed up

[RDog 0]

S & D only does so much.Go to www.fileresearchcenter.com , then in the right hand corner you will see an option to see what is running on your computer.Click it, install the plugin to your browser, and it will run the proccesses against their database and highlight malicious programs.

Did this and it didn't find any bad programs.

[clingfree 0]

www.cybertechhelp.comdownload hijackthis and run itpost the file on the forum and the good peeps there who know what they are doing will tell you what to fix and how.

[Sluggo 0]

It sounds like a connection problem if it's only occurring with websites and streaming video.

[RDog 0]

It sounds like a connection problem if it's only occurring with websites and streaming video.

Is there a way to find out if it is a connection problem?

[DmsTips 0]

delete the 3 gigs of porn you have.JK as your friend said just remove a bunch of those backround programs with msconfig. Look for ones that in the program files folder and not in the windows folder. Usually you will see the icons for the programs running in the backround at the bottom right. Remove the ones with those program names.