my computer was acting wierd lately it takes for ever to load it takes 3minutes to load my profile when it only should take 5seconds. I virus scanned my computer it had viruses i delted them and spyware i delete that to my computer is still slow. So i System Defrag and it still slow. MY pf usage in task manager gets up to 600mb alot and when i do somthing it freezes for a second ive tried everything including system restore what is wrong with my pc. I also in stalled norton and uninstalled it cuse it slowed my pc down before
its not registery or any of thats ive done everything thing and now its worse my account freezes and i have to reset my computer it dumb how do i just make my account start up faster ive done all the registry and etc any programs
ok this is what i did first i got spyware doctor i got rid off spyware.then i did a virus and spyware scan. then i did ccleaner.and then i use a program that fixes registry.and removed the temporay files. then reboted and it was still slow. ive been trying to system restore and it doesnt restore
ok this is what i did first i got spyware doctor i got rid off spyware.then i did a virus and spyware scan. then i did ccleaner.and then i use a program that fixes registry.and removed the temporay files. then reboted and it was still slow. ive been trying to asystem restore and it doesnt restore. my ram size is 512 and i know its not that cuse my pc worked fine 3 days ago. how can i fix this
ok this is what i did first i got spyware doctor i got rid off spyware.then i did a virus and spyware scan. then i did ccleaner.and then i use a program that fixes registry.and removed the temporay files. then reboted and it was still slow. ive been trying to asystem restore and it doesnt restore. my ram size is 512 and i know its not that cuse my pc worked fine 3 days ago. how can i fix this

and there was 36 running and there wasnt that many runing before and there is a program i cant stop runing in the system called
scanningproccess.exe and its eating 61k of my memory usage
OK EVERYONE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING I FIXED THE PROBLEM I FOUND OUT IT WASNT ANYTHING WITH MY SYSTEM IT WAS WAT I WAS USING ZONE ALARM. THERE WAS A FILE CALLED SCANNINGPROCCESS.EXE THAT SLOWED DOWN STARTUP I JUST REMOVED ZONE ALARM AND IT SUPER FAST I USED TO HAVE 600PF NOW I GOT 126PM ITS Back to normal

I got my computer August of 2006 it’s an HP special Edition. I have norton Antivirus installed and I put most of my big files on an external hardrive. Recently, it has slowed down drastically (ex: Taking forever to turn off or on, to open or close widows, to switch to different windows and to download webpages, open itunes, etc.) How do I fix the problem?

What is the best virus protection for a PC?
Trying to figure out what to install on my computer. What’s best? McAfee? Norton? Others?

I had Windows Vista Home Basic (My computer is a Dell) and I was going to reformat because of a bad virus. My bro gave me Vista Home Premium so i used that and started the formatting process. When it finished, i played a game of solitaire and a notice came up saying that hardware acceleration is off (never happened before). When the game opened, the frame rate becomes very low. Im assuming that my graphics card isn’t working properly. I ran DirectX Diagnostics and it didnt detect my graphics card.
I ran Everest and it says that the graphics card is a Standard VGA (if memory serves from 30mins ago).

I bought this computer off ebay a while ago and the seller gave me the following Installation CDs:

o Cyberlink PowerDVD
o Dell Photo All-in-One Printer
o Dell Dimension Computer Software
o Windows Vista Home Basic 32bit
o Dell LCD Flat Panel Monitor
o Norton Anitvirus

I installed them all except the antivirus.

When I opened up my computer (risky for a noob like me ), I saw three cards (i assumed one was a graphics CARD). I unclipped them and one says Dell Memory and the others have no name. Games were working for me earlier before i uprgraded.

How do i find the graphics card so i can update it?
Is there any other ways to fix this?

Help please ~ ty

PLEASE, please help me. I contacted Symantec via live chat because we just renewed our subscription to Norton, but the confirmation email we received contained a link that didn’t work. The link was supposed to provide instructions as to how to complete the renewal process. When I contacted Symantec via live chat, instead of just giving me the instructions, the agent connected with my computer (with my permission) and proceed to do unknown things for unknown reasons. She changed the date on our computer’s calendar to Dec. 25th (???) and then proceeded to do things to our Windows configuration (I think…I know nothing about computers…that just what it looked like when I watched her onscreen). At any rate, the computer shut down spontaneously as she was working, so we lost our connection. Now, my computer isn’t working properly in many small, weird, hard-to-explain ways. For starters, I can’t get any further help from Symantec because, when I am in their site, I can’t connect to live chat. I tried clicking on the "email us" link on one of their pages and the page just sits there and does nothing. I also tried the "call us or have us call you" page and that doesn’t work either – I just get an "error on the page". Symantec website issue? I would think so except all kinds of other things on my computer don’t work. Window’s Media Player has ceased to function. I get an "internal application error" which I have tried unsucessfully to repair. Realplayer doesn’t work either – more "internal" error messages. When I go to certain websites, for example my bank’s website – www.53.com – there should be a login box on the left hand side and it’s simply not there on my screen. However, if I go to that same site from my work computer, the screen looks fine. So again, it must be our computer. Same thing if I go to capitalone.com. I can’t access the login screen, but I can if I do it from my work computer. I know so little about computer functionality that I am not even sure what "Windows" actually does. I know it’s any "operating system" for your computer, but I’m not even sure what that means. : ) Having said that, I would dare say that Windows XP on my computer appears to be corrupted from something the Symantec agent did. Can someone please help? Do any of these weird problems ring a bell (Windows Media Player errors, websites missing login boxes on my screen)? Do I need to run some kind of registry cleaner? I am about to go nuts trying to figure this out. Any help would be appreciate. Thank you!