computer running painfully slow

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My computer takes so much time to do anything. To boot up, get into my user
account, get into any file, it takes forever that it drives me mad.

have done a defrag, disk clean up, updated my antivirus, downloaded anti
spyware. short of throwing it out and buying a new one has anyone any
suggestions.

Smelly Shelly

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

You haven't told us about any particular event that might have caused your
problem. Was your computer always slow, from day one?

In general, slow performance is typically due to one or more of three
causes:

1. Viruses or spyware.
2. Too many programs running at the same time.
3. Underpowered hardware.

It can take a lot of effort to identify viruses and spyware, often requiring
scans by several (or many) different scanners.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"Shelly" <shelly.nugent@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> My computer takes so much time to do anything. To boot up, get into my
user
> account, get into any file, it takes forever that it drives me mad.
>
> have done a defrag, disk clean up, updated my antivirus, downloaded anti
> spyware. short of throwing it out and buying a new one has anyone any
> suggestions.
>
> Smelly Shelly
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