turtlefoot
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Hey all,
My wife has been having a lot of problems with her computer lately. It is running very slow. She thinks that there might be malware or something. She has also been talking to some of her friends and was told that she might have processes running in the background that are not needed.
1. How can we determine what is going on?
2. Is there a generic list of processes that have to run all the time, so we will know what ones to "stop"?
Her computer is running Windows 7. She uses AVG (free, but updated) for her virus protection as well as CCleaner and Malwarebytes.
She likes social networking sites like Facebook and Pintrest as well as Netflix.
Any suggestions that anyone can give me to help her computer speed back up would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug
My wife has been having a lot of problems with her computer lately. It is running very slow. She thinks that there might be malware or something. She has also been talking to some of her friends and was told that she might have processes running in the background that are not needed.
1. How can we determine what is going on?
2. Is there a generic list of processes that have to run all the time, so we will know what ones to "stop"?
Her computer is running Windows 7. She uses AVG (free, but updated) for her virus protection as well as CCleaner and Malwarebytes.
She likes social networking sites like Facebook and Pintrest as well as Netflix.
Any suggestions that anyone can give me to help her computer speed back up would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug