Windows vista very slow virus

I have three bars of internet and plenty of disk space so it should be faster. I keep it cleaned and defragged but many times now I have to refresh to do anything online and sometimes offline.

Is that possible? Or am I just paranoid. What is the best and safest way to be sure — and the best cleaner that you would recommend? Become a Patron of Ask Leo! What that means is back up your computer completely, reformat and reinstall Windows, reinstall all of your applications, and restore your data. One problem here is that malware is messy; or more precisely, removing malware is messy.

I know of no tool that we can just drop in that would magically make things all better for you. You mentioned that you installed an additional anti-malware package. It sounds like this has left you with two: Bullguard and Microsoft anti-malware. I would uninstall one of them, and make sure that the other is still working. You mentioned needing to refresh pages to get them to view.

If browsing the web is getting painful, I would consider a couple of additional things: clearing your browser cache, uninstalling and reinstalling the browser completely, or installing and using a different browser. Malware has been known to impact browsers adversely. If any of those ideas work, consider yourself very, very lucky. Also, please consider backing up regularly.

Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. A couple of other straws I might also grasp: 1. And performing a repair install of Windows, a non-destructive reinstallation of Windows, which leaves all of your other programs and files intact. MSE was installed with Windows update.

I was using Malware Bytes Anti Malware to check for malware and Avasti anti virus to check for viruses. Background programs also have a toll on system performance. Run "msconfig" through start menu and go to the startup tab. Uncheck everything except your antivirus program or any other important program.

Then restart. Hopefully, your computer will be faster than before You should also disable visual effects Aibek yes, that would definitely add some speed to your system. To disable visual effect, right click on 'My Computer' and select the 'Properties' option. Under visual effects , select 'Adjust for best performance'. How can I find out why my computer slows down? And I also wanted to tell you that I wrote my processer name Intel core instead of Intel Atom in my question mistakenly.

One more thing that what are the visual effects that you Aibek are talking about, I couldn't find Advanced system settings tab in properties. How does disabling visual effects help me? Aibek You can also access that visual effects menu I was talking about via.

Oh and I found another MakeUseOf article which lists some additional tips to improve the performance. Since Adobe Flash is no longer supported in web browsers, here's how to download Flash games to play offline. My Vista Home Computer goes like the clappers I hate these stories where someone spent good money and got basically noyhing in return What was the "Cleanup Tool " the shop installed?

In the meantime Start Here and follow the guide for posting your logs Quote from: Allan on January 21, , AM. I really don't understand. Follow the instructions in my post and try it now. Just follow the instructions. Yes, post each log.