Well, you are dealing with a single core celeron D 335 2.8 ghz processor with a max memory allowed of 2gb total. If it is slow then you most likely need more memory, if you can find some cheap sticks 2 x 1gb of ddr 400(pc3200), then get it. Windows XP runs more efficiently when there is 1-2gb of memory installed.
Have you cleaned out all your temporary internet and system files lately by running Ccleaner? If not, I highly recommend you do and should be ran before running malware/virus scans. Here is the link for Ccleaner.
http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/
Just download it, install it, run it. Open it up and just click on run cleaner.
Another issue you may have is thats its full of malware/adware which will slow your machine down to a crawl. Here is the process to check for infections.
Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from
here or
here and save it to your desktop.
- Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
- Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- then click Finish.
- If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
- Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
- When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
- Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
- A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
If for some reason Malwarebytes will not install or run please download and run
Rkill.scr,
Rkill.exe, or
Rkill.com but
DO NOT reboot the system and then try installing or running Malwarebytes. If Rkill (which is a black box) appears and then disappears right away or you get a message saying rkill is infected, keep trying to run rkill until it over powers the infection and temporarily kills it. Once a log appears on the screen, you can try running malwarebytes or downloading other programs.
Download the HijackThis installer from
here.
Run the installer and choose
Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.
Click
Do a system scan and save a logfile
Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.
Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
