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Old 04 July 2009, 08:59 AM
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Young sons computer is running really slow. He does not have any administration rights but he obviously has done something to slow it down. He has loads of shortcuts on his desktop.

Any advice..????
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Old 04 July 2009, 09:24 AM
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Have u done a disk clean up or defragged it lately,if not give it a go,it kind of tidys up the hard drive,might help
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Old 04 July 2009, 10:00 AM
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as above and run spyware remover and a deep virus scan
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Old 04 July 2009, 05:49 PM
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I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to computers. Is there a good spyware remover & virus scan available to down load
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Google malwarebytes and super anti spyware. They are both good spyware progs. Also worth clearing temp internet files, etc.
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Flat it and do a complete re-install.
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Flat it and do a complete re-install.
+1 save any data and reload OS and progs from CD
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