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Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 89

Be careful with this new version, seems to use a lot of resources so if you haven't got a great deal of memory it'll slow you down considerably apparently lots of bugs too see here

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trishdurkan · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

i havnt instaled it yet but keeps asking me too

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Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 89

If you have a large amount of memory (over 2gig) you may be ok, I installed it on a friend's PC and it slowed it down to a crawl, also heard from a friend down south that it had some the same to his. If you have to install it I would uninstall the old version first before attempting to install the new one, you shouldn't have to but apparently it works better if you do, I uninstalled hers today and put Avast on and things are back to the speed they were

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localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 643

Nice to hear that warning, it USED to be one of the best for low resource useage, I don't have a worry in memory (4gb) but I like to keep useage to a minimal as a gamer..

thanks for the heads up....

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Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 89

I know maybe they'll sort it out, it's a shame as I know loads of people who have it and have stuck with it over the years, there are lots of post on PC advisor (int the helproom) about it too

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localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 643

Mind you thats like bloody firefox isn't it, they promised to sort out memory leaks, as I am typing this, firefox.exe is currently using between 45,000 and 60,000k

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pyrrhus · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 16

has anyone ever actually had a virus that interupted the system apart from the sasser worm?

saying that ive gone of avg myself preffering to look at nod32 .

p.s. the last avatavar was better trish...

60mb out of 2,.000 dosent seem to bad as a gig of ddr2 costs about 9 quid these days.

computerbay · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Back at work

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cappccinogirl · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: AVG 8

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What free software would you recommend?

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computerbay · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Back at work

cappccinogirl wrote:

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Maz wrote:

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What free software would you recommend?

I would not recommend free software, and as the latest version of bit defender costs around £25 with 3 free licence distributions you can give a download link to a couple of your freinds and they can benefit aswell.

AVG free is the best free anti-virus software you can get and if you search for All-In-One-DVD through a torrent search you may be able to find the pro version in the bundle of software.

You will need a bit torrent to do this, this is illegal of course and should not be recommended.

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mojo110853 · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 3286 Location: anglesey

my friends computer is really slow any idea why please computerbay

computerbay · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Back at work

mojo110853 wrote:

my friends computer is really slow any idea why please computerbay

Good morning

If the computer operating system and harddrive are not in pristine condition or as close as then the computer will be slow.

Here is a guide to speeding up a pc.

You will need the following software, if purchased will give you guarantees and free updates.

Load control panel and load system
on system panel, click on Advanced, now click on settings under the performance tab, select performance, click on apply and close the window.

1) Registry Mechanic

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2) DiskKeeper

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3) Spybot Search & Destroy

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Once you have all this software installed, switch off your internet connection so you dont have any incoming traffic.

Go to your control panel, click on Add/Remove programs, have a look down the list and delete what you no longer use, if its been there for a very long time and it doest get used, the chances are you will have outgrown it, like an old pair of shoes throw it away.

Run Spybot Search & Destroy - make a cup of tea it may take a while to go through your computer dependant on how much software you have installed. Once completed immunize using that feature of the program. Close the program!

Now run registry mechanic, before clicking on scan click on settings, then click on custom scan and make sure the boxes are all ticked, first time users will find a few boxes at the bottom un-ticked, make sure they are all filled in. Now goto to scanning paths on the same list, make sure your entire computer is selected, you can miss out the CD/DVD drives. Now save those options, now you can click on Scan Your Registry.

Allow it to finish and click on repair all errors, Close the program!

your nearly finished, load diskkeeper, highlight Drive C:\ and click on defrag. you will notice that next to the free space on that drive, automatic defragmentation is enabled. Allow this program to completely defrag your harddrive, when completed Close the program!, even though it is closed it will continue to defrag the harddrive as it needs to.

Goto start / programs - right click on startup and select open. How many programs do you have in this folder, if you have a dozen or so then your computer is going spend its entire life working, empty the startup folder - one piece of advice that is most valuable - only load what you want to use then when you have finished close it down.

now shutdown your computer
re-connect your internet

startup your computer and see the difference

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cappccinogirl · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

Thank you!

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samz28 · Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 7972

computerbay wrote:

mojo110853 wrote:

my friends computer is really slow any idea why please computerbay

Good morning

If the computer operating system and harddrive are not in pristine condition or as close as then the computer will be slow.

Here is a guide to speeding up a pc.

You will need the following software, if purchased will give you guarantees and free updates.

Load control panel and load system
on system panel, click on Advanced, now click on settings under the performance tab, select performance, click on apply and close the window.

1) Registry Mechanic

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2) DiskKeeper

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3) Spybot Search & Destroy

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Once you have all this software installed, switch off your internet connection so you dont have any incoming traffic.

Go to your control panel, click on Add/Remove programs, have a look down the list and delete what you no longer use, if its been there for a very long time and it doest get used, the chances are you will have outgrown it, like an old pair of shoes throw it away.

Run Spybot Search & Destroy - make a cup of tea it may take a while to go through your computer dependant on how much software you have installed. Once completed immunize using that feature of the program. Close the program!

Now run registry mechanic, before clicking on scan click on settings, then click on custom scan and make sure the boxes are all ticked, first time users will find a few boxes at the bottom un-ticked, make sure they are all filled in. Now goto to scanning paths on the same list, make sure your entire computer is selected, you can miss out the CD/DVD drives. Now save those options, now you can click on Scan Your Registry.

Allow it to finish and click on repair all errors, Close the program!

your nearly finished, load diskkeeper, highlight Drive C:\ and click on defrag. you will notice that next to the free space on that drive, automatic defragmentation is enabled. Allow this program to completely defrag your harddrive, when completed Close the program!, even though it is closed it will continue to defrag the harddrive as it needs to.

Goto start / programs - right click on startup and select open. How many programs do you have in this folder, if you have a dozen or so then your computer is going spend its entire life working, empty the startup folder - one piece of advice that is most valuable - only load what you want to use then when you have finished close it down.

now shutdown your computer
re-connect your internet

startup your computer and see the difference

OMG you are so helpful!!! How are you with beginners??? I may need halp sometime but am not too brill with computers!!! Rolling Eyes

computerbay · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Back at work

good evening samz

I am very good with beginners, is there a particular subject which you would like help with?

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