Hi, I am new here and new to computers

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shaunm81

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Hello,


I am new to on here and new to pc's also. I have a new Dell Dimension C521 with Windows Vista in it and I have had it for a couple of months now. I noticed that my pc is slowing down. I have been watching some stuff off of the utube videos. I did not know if enough of this stuff would slow my pc down or not? if it would how would I like have to go about getting it back to being fast again. Anyhelp would be good on this please you can pm me or reply back on here. Thank you for the help hopefully some smart peeps can help me with some of my other problems as well..............Shaun
 
First, stop using internet explorer. It seriously had many security holes and such. Firefox typically works better, faster, and is more secure.

As for your problem, seeing as you were running IE, you probably have spyware. On top of that, computers typically slow down as you load more stuff on them. You probably have a good number of processes running in the background.

If you have a virus scan, run it. If not, get AVG Free Edition or Avast. Also get Adaware and Spybot Search and Destory to check for spyware. Then get HiJackThis, get the log, and post it here. Each of these is very easy to find using google.
 
The_Other_One said:
First, stop using internet explorer. It seriously had many security holes and such. Firefox typically works better, faster, and is more secure.

As for your problem, seeing as you were running IE, you probably have spyware. On top of that, computers typically slow down as you load more stuff on them. You probably have a good number of processes running in the background.

If you have a virus scan, run it. If not, get AVG Free Edition or Avast. Also get Adaware and Spybot Search and Destory to check for spyware. Then get HiJackThis, get the log, and post it here. Each of these is very easy to find using google.
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Don't get avast, get AVG. I ran avast on a comp and it deleted a system file without warning! :eek:

~Jordan
 
Hello,


where do I get firefox from? sorry im all pretty new to this stuff like I said. I have like yahoo as my homepage firefox would like load up to my yahoo homepage like explorer does wouldnt it? thank you I didnt know explorer was crappy I guess ya learn stuff new everyday I hope to learn alot of new stuff around here.................Shaun
 
Just hit up google.com and search firefox download or something to that extent, you should find it there. I personally use IE..haven't had any slow downs whatso ever, nor spyware. But I do daily Adaware and Spybot S&D scans and a weekly CCleaner scan. I just didn't like firefox at all..so I don't use it :)
 
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