Viruses and running slow - Dell XPS M1330 Notebook

- Start the laptop in safe mode.
- Scan Laptop for Viruses
- Run Check Disk
- Stop Unnecessary Background Programs
- Fix Registry Errors With PCFresher
- Run Disk Cleanup

Thanks

Hi,
The most common causes of a slow PC is:
a)It has been infected with viruses and/or spyware
b)You have too many programs or apps installed on your PC which are running in the background and slowing the tasks you are busy with.

Install a good anti-virus program such as AVG free edition. You can download it for free from www.avg.com
Once downloaded run a full scan to detect viruses and spyware which may be slowing your PC down.
Also uninstall any programs which you are not using.

Best wishes,
Graemevm

there is a chance that your pc has a virus or malware on it. most of the time when a computer slows down this is the problem.

I would recommend using avg free internet security. the link to download this is:

http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition-2011/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?tag=rb_content;main

I hope this helps, if you need anymore help just reply.

hello,

It is normal for hp laptop to get hot when it is running. my own hp laptop will burn my lap if i put it on my lap while running.

If your laptop is slow, free up space in the hard disk because if the hard is fill up, it can make the laptop to be slow.

If it is still slow, then the laptop is contacted with a virus. scan the system with updated anti virus and delete the virus on your laptop or you format the laptop and re run windows.

Thanks for contacting Fixya.

it is normal...

all anti virus needs memory test...

all of them if you enable in start up you will experience slow start also.. you will feel that your computer is slow because all of your task are scanned by your anti -virus...

if you still want your anti-virus running but you don't want your pc to be slow..you can customize the anti-virus options...

you can select there what actions your anti virus will do and what you don't want to do...

ex. stopping your instant messaging shield...
stopping p2p shield...
stopping network dshield...
stopping web shield...
stopping standard shield...

you can also customize it by not letting the autorun of the virus in system start up...

hope i've help you..

hello!!! your computer slow maybe some files is missing due to slow performance
or when you virus scan last time some of your files in the drive c are infected by the virus
and the anti virus normally he do to delete automatically whose files unable to repair by
anti virus scaner your best to do to reformat using os/operating system cd, or try upgrade your memory ram...

thank you!! hope i can help you..have a good day!!!

Your computer may be infected with a virus. Are you running any anti virus software?

Do a simple scan of your machine using anti virus software - If you have none installed, download and install this.

I have included AVG as its free.
http://www.avg.com/

Log off from the internet and run the scans - if you haven't run one before this may take several hours.

The clean up should remove any old entries and also detect any virus which may be slowing down your machine.

Try to Format the drive. and use disk cleanup.

If a machine is running slow, there is usually 3 reasons...
1) Remove all spyware using a program
2) Run an anti-virus like AVG Free Anti-Virus to clear any viruses
3) Add some memory to the machine

Slowness can be caused by viruses.

Run a virus scan and see what comes up.
If there are viruses on the computer, you may want to consider Restoring your computer to factory settings.

But before you do that
Run a virus scan; go to Symantec and run it or download AVG free.

If you decide to restore to factory settings, I will be glad to help you. Understand, you will loose everything on the computer, and you will have to run all your programs again, set up your network connection and email. Very time consuming.