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Vista laptop running very slow

Someone's asked me to look at a Vista Acer laptop running Hole Premium that was very slow.

Firstly, the person who set it up left Acer's default settings of 31GB to the system partition and 31GB to the data one. So latter ended up 100% free and the former 0%.

I used the Vista program to move the space and merge them into one. It's antivirus ran out a year ago so I have loaded McAfee Viruscan and ran Combofix which deleted a couple of files, but the CPU is still very busy and running high sometimes with no apps running

Rikin Shah

try CCleaner http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/ to clean registry and start de-fragmentation. Check it after that.

zazagor

Hi,

Run msconfig.exe and stop autostarted programs and services.

//zaZagor

mikeabc27

ASKER

Thanks - I should have added the system is unstable and "posted" this before I finished and to the wrong section.

nitinsawhney

Try out avast antivirus http://www.avast.com/ it is capable of boot time scan. I presume that your system is infected with Trojans as well so will be good to scan it with malwarebytes as well http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Lastly here are some tips for optimizing Vista http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-vista/Optimize-Windows-Vista-for-better-performance

mikeabc27

ASKER

CCleaner didn't have any success and msconfig.exe won't run

Rikin Shah

Go for a boot virus scan and then try.

http://thepcsecurity.com/virus-scan-boot-disk-from-avira/

mikeabc27

ASKER

Thanks that was my next step after msconfig, but can't do anything now - won't load apps/Internet - so having to re-install Windows.

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