~Deby

Next click n the Tool tab
Click on ‘Defragment Now’

When this is done, try your Spybot and CCleaner again, and scan with an antivirus program. HTH

I’ve ran a virus scan, spybot, & cc cleaner but to no avail.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Neal

Step two would be to check your RAM. If you’re running Windows XP and have less than 1Gb, upgrade (yes 256-512Mb was fine at launch but you’re running alot more stuff now…memory is cheap). Vista you want atleast 2Gb, 3Gb is even smoother. Again, memory is cheap. Windows 7 runs ok on 1Gb but 2Gb is better and again…more is BETTER. You can never have enough ram and with 4Gb running between $60-70 for DDR3 (DDR2 will cost you closer to $80 and DDR will run closer to $100-120) its the cheapest upgrade you can do and will NEVER (unless its bad memory) treat you wrong.

Next, AVG? No, its become massively bloated and its default toolbar and safesearch capabilities are massively sluggish. Microsoft offers a free, amazingly good security solution called Security Essentials. It works as long as you have a valid, WGA certified version of XP/Vista/Win7. Great software. Avast works in a pinch as well (more so for fixing/recovery) and in a pinch Avira is nice too but its ads are annoying.

Ccleaner is good but its not going to fix massive problems and in fact Vista/Win7 offer similar space cleaning tools but dont touch the registry (and I’d prefer far more users to stay the hell away from registry cleaners. Ccleaner does ok there but the rest just LEAVE THE REGISTRY ALONE!).

Finally, Spybot is good but no malware tool by itself is perfect. Spybot + malwarebytes is about as close to perfect as you can get. AdAware is junk nowadays as is Spysweeper. Kaspersky AV does a decent job as an Anti-virus for removing malware but again, its somewhat bloated and not intuitive for a user app.

Seriously though, the absolute best thing you can do to improve performance is remove as many of the computer companies programs as you can at start but MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AS MUCH MEMORY AS YOU CAN AFFORD!!!!!!!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=337890

The bottom line is if you have a virus infection, reformatting is the safest solution. It is the only 100% guarantee to get rid of the virus. There are tons of viruses designed to avoid detection and deletion. You might think you got rid of a virus but it already replicated into something else. Just make sure you backup all personal files and you have your windows cd and key ready.