computer running slow after...

Hey guys!

So I've heard that AVG antivirus free edition is expiring in february. My parents computer had AVG and we wanted to get an alternate solution. I said that our ISP is offering a free zone alarm security suite program on thier website. While i was away my dad downloaded and isntalled the free zone alarm (ZA) firewall. I said lets uninstall this free version and get the better suite version (anti virus, spyware, firewall, etc).

So we downloaded the free suite from the ISP. Eventually, they said they didnt really like the ZA suite so i unistalled it and put avg back on untill they make up thier mind.

My dad recently bought a x1650 pro, and we were running COD2 on pretty much full graphics at about 20-25 frames per second.

After this whole ZA thing the game is barely playable at low settings, it is not only COD2 though, counter stirke source is also very slow...

I tried the doing what the ZA people said here
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/m [...] 1_help.pdf
(goto trouble shooting and manual unistall)

Couldnt find the folders it said would be there, and there is nothing in the internet logs folder.

Have you guys seen any of this before and is zone alarm the actual problem. Nothing else has been done really to this computer recently besides what i explained.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Oh, and for your parents and AVG. After you have uninstalled avg 7.1 you could go get AVG 7.5 and still be running what they are used to. And none of them will protect you from everything. Have you heard of or ran Hitman Pro before?

I've never used ZA but have you tried disbling the auto-scans?.. auto file scan, firewall etc. ZA might be trying to scan all data before execution. Alternatively, turn it off during gameplay.

Hey guys.. Just wanna let you know that i am still here and am in the process of doing all you said.

I tired to restore to before i installed Zone alarm when it happened but i could not. ?? really wierd.

tryed a few different dates still no luck.

So i took off AVG (i had 7.1) and put the new one on. I ran all those cleaners and stuff.. im in the process of running the micro trend scan.

Will edit/post again when i try a game and all that stuff. defrag added a bit of performace.

EDIT: So the game is running alot better now. The load times now take minutes less and the games run near full graphics again. Thanks for the help you guys. I guess it just had a bunch of crud on there that needed to come off.