Anyone have suggestions as to how to increase my PC speed? Recently I have been slowed down (long time for apps/pages to load) considerably when running just a few open windows. When I reboot the problem goes away but eventually comes back. I have run Anti-Malware but no improvement. Thanks.
As rule of thumb, never use anti-virus, anti-spyware provided by a non-well-known public company. The anti-virus and anti-spyware contain the virus and spyware in itself. You get what you pay for. A good well-known company that are using by many corporate are Symantec and McAfee. It's really worth to pay about $50 a year and have a free mind to focus on something else.
careful in memory (RAM)..."the "computer can only take so much RAM and the rest will be a wasted on money.
runn ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ select registry, scan for issues, fix selected issues, yes to backup a copy then delete them all. select tools, start up, disable anything you don't use.
SYMC / MFE products are both bloatware. Switching to Avira, as recommended in earlier threads (started by Paulxx iirc), significantly lowered my memory usage. If you switch, also perform the anti-nag hack as recommended in same threads. R
You're right. Assuming your computer is less than 5 years old, where the date is counted at the time to market, not at the purchase date. Older computers will suffer a lot of speed slowed by that application. Beside it's large, you get the best protection if your computer is up to date.
I believe the best way to really speed up an old computer is to back up everything you deem important and blow it away by formatting/reinstallation of Windows. Some people are strongly against this idea, but think of it like a colonic irrigation.
I have had good success with TuneUp Utilities 2009 www.tune-up.com and defrag with PerfectDisk www.raxco.com