Re: win xp sp3

Ken I also forget to mention that I did a hijackthis scan and sent the log
file to a web site called Tech Guys for their inspection, a little while ago,
this afternoon 5/14/08 Larry

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:05:16 -0700, Larry
<Larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Ken Blake I appoligize, yes I ment 512 mb of ram. The pc is slow
to boot and open apps. as well. I use the disk cleaner each day I defrag
every day. I have software called advanced windows care v-2 personnal I use
each day, along with it's memory cleaner. A couple of weeks ago I downloaded
AVG 8.0 free, ran the scan and after an hour the results was 24568 warnings
of possible infections.



That's an *enormous* number. If you were that badly infected, there's
an excellent chance that not everything was cleaned properly, and you
are still infected.

I'm usually very reluctant to recommend that someone reformat and
clean install, but with a system that badly compromised, that's likely
your best course.


I used the clean button to remove all of these, don't
know if that was the right thing to do. My pc's software is nothing all that
spectacular, Quicken 2005, Openoffice 2.4, Mozillia Firefox, Broderbund, ( a
will making app.) and family search ( a geneology app.) Thats about all I
use. So I don't know what is going on. If it help's my disk space is 37 gb
with 84% free Larry

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:47:03 -0700, Larry
<Larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just wondering, is sp3 eating up all my ram or not. Since windows updated
it to my pc, The pc is painfully slow, (like 6 minutes to reach my desktop,
or is somthing else going on. On my disk space I still have 84% available.
The ram I have is just 520 mg, so this might the problem?



Several points:

1. Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or most, of
your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is
wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it
wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps all your memory working for you all the time.

2. Is the computer just slow to boot, or is it also slow after
booting?

3. You say "The ram I have is just 520 mg." I assume you mean 512MB.
For most people, that's fine. How much RAM you need for good
performance is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. You get good
performance if the amount of RAM you have keeps you from using the
page file, and that depends on what apps you run. Most people running
a typical range of business applications find that somewhere around
256-384MB works well, others need 512MB.

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