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2:47 pm
March 12, 2011
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cindylobb
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Good afternoon,
I just found out that you were on from 2-3 today and I'm sure your lines are jammed, so I'm going to post here.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop running XP. I have MalWareBytes and McAfee for AntiVirus. When I run either of these programs on my laptop, it takes, literally, 2 1/2 – 3 hrs or more to run. Yet, when I run on my daughters' desktop, it's under an hour.
Also, my laptop seems to run slow. Especially when it is first turned on. litterally 10 minutes before i can actually do anything – open a program, get on the internet, etc.
I have gone into the maintenance area and emptied the temporary files and ran the defrag program.
I susptect the issues are related, and probably have something to do with programs running in the background – maybe in start up, etc. Maybe cookies? I don't want do delete ALL cookies because some of the websites I go to frequently, I absolutely hate having to re-enter information every time. How can I delete the 'worthless' cookies?
Thanks for the GREAT show! anxious to hear you more regularly!
Cindy L
Westland, MI
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4:38 pm
March 15, 2011
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asi
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Cindy
I am going to suggest three free apps that might help you. They are easy to download, work rather well, and are intuative to use They can be downloaded from Cnet.com.
Malwarebytes
Iobit 360
Iobit System Care
If you have the Google toolbar installed just type the above names in one at a time and choose the listing that appears for Cnet. Download.
Hope that helps. If you continue to have problems repost your problem.
J. R.
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5:55 pm
March 15, 2011
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cindylobb
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Thank you, J.R.
I already have MalwareBytes… That's one of the programs that is taking 3 hours to scan my computer! lol what do the other two programs do? Will they interfer with my McAfee Anti-virus?
Thank you…
Cindy
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7:31 pm
March 15, 2011
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Ben Carpenter
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cindylobb said:
Thank you, J.R.
I already have MalwareBytes… That's one of the programs that is taking 3 hours to scan my computer! lol what do the other two programs do? Will they interfer with my McAfee Anti-virus?
Thank you…
Cindy
Cindy
MalwareBytes takes along time to run here also. It takes longer on my desk top then on my laptop, and I think that is due to a lot more on the hard drive as well as two hard drives.
I always start it when I can walk away from the ccomputer for a long time.
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8:27 pm
April 21, 2011
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ProfTheory
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Since your running XP I'd guess the laptop is more than 4 year old? It may be the HD is going bad. They don't always report error in the "early phase" of wearing out. How much RAM is in your system? if you have only 512MB then adding more can speed it up some. You could also look into replacing the drive. Do you know anyone with a program called SpinRite? It is designed to a surface test of the drive.
http://www.grc.com
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8:28 pm
April 25, 2011
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asi
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Cindy,
I appoligizize for taking so long to get back to your issue. As ProfTheory advised and he 's much more knowledgable than I am. Did you check your HD to see if it was failing or creating problems?
You never told what kinds of things you do with your computer. So, a couple of questions. What kind of applications do you have running on your computer? Do you download or save large files to your computer? The reason behind my asking is that visual, audio, pictures and some other types of files can fill a hard drive rather quickly and make scan times with MalwareBytes or other simular programs take a very long time to scan, especially if you have a rather large hard drive.
As an example, my wife has downloaded every picture she has ever taken for the past thirty-five years, plus she saves favorites like they were candy; thousands of them. When I try to scan her computer it takes forever because she keeps it all on her computer instead of backing it up to an external hard drive, CD, or some other means.
Not to be mean, but it sounds like you have stored a lot of unnecessary stuff on your computer, which is causing the the long scan times.
J. R.
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