I’m running firefox and it constantly freezes and says not responding at the top. It does this for about 30 seconds and then comes back but its happening more often now. I tried scanning my computer for viruses, malware, and cleaned the registry but nothing.
Where do I check about the plugins and extensions?

I have 3079 mb ram memory, am running vista, and still it takes forever to open programs. Just opening a file with thumbnail images takes a good 30 secs to a min. I have run multiple malware scans, anti-virus scans….have cleaned all my temp files and unused registry entries. Why does my computer still run so slow?

So yea, I did the registry cleaner thing, antivirus scan, and malwarebytes scan, and my computer was rnning great again. However, maybe after a minute or 2, windows tells me that it cannot install anyupdates and click here to solve the problem. At that very moment when i get that message, my whole computer starts to freeze up again. And I know its not a virus or malware. What could be the problem? Should I Just completely turn off windows updates? Best answer for 10 points.

I have avg installed, no viruses, used malwarbytes, no malware. Used a good registry cleaner(registry cleaner) all taken cared of, I did disk clean up, all good, I even tweaked with the virtual memory and its still slow. I even tried to install super anti spyware and i cant, I get some type of error. I even tried to do system restore, but the pc wont let me open it(turned of by group). Is it just that I need more ram? Because i tried to run disk defragment, but it never finished(maybe because Im using vista, and I dont have enough ram. A little help please? Best answer for 10 points.

SVCHOST.EXE QUESTION?

Hi there.
This is a serious question for programmers and other interested parties.

Recently I experienced a general slowing down of my machine. I use Norton 360 V3 But I realized that this program was not finding the malware in the registry.

After some investigation, I realized that I needed some extra help.
I downloaded Malwarebytes ; CCleaner and I already had a StormSoft Registry Cleaner. Well, the Stomsoft registry cleaner world not run,and I guess this was because whatever malware was still in the machine was fighting this program to load (and still won’t run).

I installed and ram Malwarebytes three or four times and ws pleased with this program’s abilities. Well done Malwarebytes. Then I ran CCleaner a few times, and this also seemed to work quite well, too.

Now my question is this… I know that svchost.exe is supposed to be in C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe (01/19/2008) attribute ‘a’
But I have also discovered it in …..
C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-services-svchost_31bf3865ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_b5bb59a1054dbde5\svchost.exe ***(DATED 05/29/2008) Attribute ‘a’ ***

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-services-svchost_31bf3865ad364e35_6.0.6000.18000_none_b5bb59a1054dbde5\svchost.exe ***(DATED 11/02/2006) Attribute ‘a’ ***

Apart from the dates, the only other difference is 6000. rather than 6001 as with the later one above this.

Should this be here? Should I delete these two files and what do they do?

Any help in understanding this issue would be most appreciated.
Victor
I am weary of downloading SpiceWorks . Mainly because so many free (let’s fix your PC programs) downloads actually put malware unto your computer. Your thoughts would be helpful.