I need computer HELP!

It seems like my computer just jumped off a cliff. It's now incredibly slow. The RAM runs at near max. Should I buy a Webroot Window Washer?

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Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 5, 2009 at 10:39pm

um you get a lot of pop-ups on top of that? you might have spy-ware using up your RAM. Google Spybot-SD.
Then use it. That might help a bit. I personally wouldn't buy anything. Plenty of decent open source programs.

Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 6, 2009 at 1:20pm

Spybot Search and Destroy. I really like it. Other then that you could de-frag your hard drive. I'm sure theres more fixes too.

Permalink Reply by FITZ on June 7, 2009 at 5:52pm

DOWNLOAD ASHAMPOO WINOPTIMISER ITS FREE ONE CLICK DOES EVERYTHING OR GO INTO MENUS AND MANUALLY SELECT PROGRAMMES.INC DEFRAG HARDDRIVE AND REGISTRY

Permalink Reply by FITZ on June 7, 2009 at 6:06pm

USE WWW.PCPITSTOP.COM. IT RUNS A FULL SYSTEM CHECK AND SHOWS UP ANY PROBS AND ITS FREE

Permalink Reply by Toxic☣ on June 9, 2009 at 1:01am

Personally when ever something get to the point of a sluggish mule I tend to just reinstall windows. But that's cause I keep everything on a separate hard drive so it's really no big loss for me. Other then reinstalling all my programs and video games ;p

Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 12, 2009 at 12:24pm

Ick... That would be such a pain. Re-installing everything.
And at WE R DNA to de-frag your hard drive, just go to My Computer, right click on the hard drive click on properties, then in the pop-up window click tools, then click "defragment now". That will give you another window. Click on Analyze then if it says you need to defragment, click defragment!
Thats it! I hope I explained it well enough.

Permalink Reply by Toxic☣ on June 12, 2009 at 6:18pm

I'd rather take the day to reinstall everything an crap like that then deal with a slow computer lol

Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 12, 2009 at 9:06pm

No problem. I'm happy to help. ^-^
And at Toxic (Where did you get that logo?), I have A LOT of games, that would take more then a day ^-^

Permalink Reply by Toxic☣ on June 13, 2009 at 2:51am

Logo?

I have 3 computers lmao, one for gaming, one for totally legal downloading and my main computer. so normally it's either the main computer or the downloading one that goes down lol.

Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 13, 2009 at 12:50pm

☣ That thing.

Permalink Reply by Toxic☣ on June 13, 2009 at 10:22pm

oh the Biohazard symbol.
thurrs an alt code for it I'm not sure what it is but I use the Character Map from windows to get it. It's in the windows system32 folder (C:\Windows\System32) it should be called charmap. When you open it pick the font MS Gothic and scroll though it there's a bunch of awesome things. like snowmen, arrows, music notes, card suits, chess pieces and a bunch more awesome stuff.

☃☏✈♘♠ 〠
They are kinda of hard to see with the small font lol

Permalink Reply by Protagonist on June 14, 2009 at 1:14am

Oh cool! Thanks. And if you want to see them bigger and you are using Fire Fox, hold down the control key and scroll your mouse wheel around. ^-^