Having Computer Problems

Hi there icyorchid..:-0 Don't reformat yet,find it out first.I experience what your experience and yeah I thought it was my anti-virus or something but yeah it was my anti vi.Lol I am using kasperky but after knowing that it use a big memory I change it into Nod32 because it's really great but yeah we still wonder why it is slow so my fiancee check the properties of the computer and yeah its getting slow because I need to upgrade my ram it is because I am opening lots of application what at a time and he said that I need to upgrade and yeah I uprgade for about 2 gig ram and now my pc is not slow anymore and I am happy with it but yeah just figure out first what makes your pc slow before reformatting it.:-0 GOd bless and have a nice day.:-0

It could very well be AVG. I use to use it a while back, but come to find out the hard way, I had a virus and AVG wasn't picking it up. I would recommend after the reformat, try Avast. I have used it for about 2 years now. It was recommended from my IT Division where I work and I am very satisfied with it. Good luck!

Slowing down of PC is one of the signs of a spyware / virus infection. But in some cases, it's not always the factor. Anti-virus can also slow down computers especially when it's set to protect you real-time or when it's continually running in the background. My tips: 1.) Update your anti-virus and anti-spyware softwares. 2.) Restart your computer in a safe-mode. 3.) Run a full-scan of your computer using your anti-virus / anti-spyware program. 4.) If they haven't detected any infection, then shutdown your anti-virus / anti-spyware programs and then try to transfer your files again. Hope it'll work.

Hi icy Someone else told me there computer is on go slow since they got the AVG anti virus so you are not alone...also I do know that certain anti virus's can make you computer go slower more than others..so in your case it wouldn't surprise me if it is the AVG that has done that to your computer..will look forward to you coming back online...if you cant then have a good weekend!! bright blessings littleowl

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I have problem's with my computer to i have high speed internet and antivirus software that my computer came with, and my computer runs really slow my computer is almost a year old, and im trying to figure out if theres anything i can do to fix this problem, lol computers can be so frustrating.

Hi icy, Stay cool! lol! that is very common to anyone! have a great Friday too!

i think you already figured it out. i used to run AVG on my computer.....it's a great anti-virus but it sucks up a lot of memory and slows your system down. that's why i switched to Avira AntiVir. http://www.free-av.de/en/index.html it works great and doesn't use up as much computer resources.

Don't rush to reformat! You could have a virus that AVG isn't seeing or it could be AVG itself so you need to take some steps to be sure. Is AVG set to do a complete scan at boot up? That's the best time to spot viruses. If not, reset it and reboot the computer. If you're still having the problem, uninstall AVG and see if your pc runs better and, if not, try another anti-virus program. I had a problem virus once which Norton was able to find it after I had tried a couple of other decent programs. I'm not sure what you mean by reformatting but you do know that a complete reformat wipes out all of your programs and the operating system along with the files, right? Good luck!