From: "rwrede" <rwrede136@hotmail.com>

| Last Christmas I bought my wife an HP laptop and it works fine, except the
| last few months it is very slow starting up. I have closed all background
| programs (only essential programs) even tried in Safe Mode. I have optimised
| with PC Pitstop, TweakNow RegCleaner Pro, Spybot S&D, AdAware, scanned for
| viruses and set Virtual Memory optimum. It takes a good full 2 minutes to
| fully open from the log-on screen and have no activity in Task Manager. (My
| desktop optimised the same way opens in 15-20 seconds from the log-on
| screen) I'm thinking more memory? I did that to my desktop, went from 256 to
| 720 and wow what a difference. Could it be the processor? how can I test or
| tell if it is the processor and not just needing more memory.
|

PC Pitstop is crap ! please use well known and recomended software not junk that is in
"commercials".

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *



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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm