hi, my laptop is a Compaq Presario. its 6 years old. has windows vista home premium on it. on the web somewhere a part of a guy's answer was
"However, normally there are two major causes of a slow computer. (1) Having a virus or malware on your computer; (2) Too many programs running at startup.".i been trying to run a virus scan in regular mode and in safe mode but cant b/c the pc shuts off at random times (any minute after i turn it on). i learned theres a harmful virus but couldnt clean it bc ithe pc shuts off. the phone support tech says my cord is on recall, then transfered me somewhere, and that guy said it isnt. and also that my pc seems to have no issues (after 6 mins of chat). my pc is 6 years old and got slowwwww on everything after 2 or 3 years. the pc shuts itself off at random times. I think I have a harmful virus. i did a virus scan with avg one day and i seen it listed a harmful virus. but i couldnt fix it because the laptop was wayy too slow and then it shut itself off. the laptop turned off. now what do i do?
"However, normally there are two major causes of a slow computer. (1) Having a virus or malware on your computer; (2) Too many programs running at startup.".i been trying to run a virus scan in regular mode and in safe mode but cant b/c the pc shuts off at random times (any minute after i turn it on). i learned theres a harmful virus but couldnt clean it bc ithe pc shuts off. the phone support tech says my cord is on recall, then transfered me somewhere, and that guy said it isnt. and also that my pc seems to have no issues (after 6 mins of chat). my pc is 6 years old and got slowwwww on everything after 2 or 3 years. the pc shuts itself off at random times. I think I have a harmful virus. i did a virus scan with avg one day and i seen it listed a harmful virus. but i couldnt fix it because the laptop was wayy too slow and then it shut itself off. the laptop turned off. now what do i do?