wkdclwn
2006-08-27, 06:54
I have read a few posts but have not found exactly what I am looking for so here is my situation. I have a Compaq with windows xp pro and a pentium 4 1.4 ghz processor. Running Mcafee av and also spybot and spyware blaster installed. AOL is my isp. Computer was fine. No problems. Shut it down to connect another computer and when I hooked it back up it was as slow as a 100 yr. old man. Took nearly an hour to boot up. Took almost as long once I got past the windows log on for all my desktop icons to load. Click on a program to open (spybot,aol,etc.) and it takes a good 10 min or so for anything to open up. Ran spybot and didnt find anything. Internet connection is pretty much hopeless. It connects but literally will take 10 min for a page to open. Left mcafee running overnight and it was still not even 50% finished with the scan. Usually can scan in about 30 minutes. I am almost to the point of just reformatting the hard drive and hoping it will work. Had a friend who is a software developer for Sony recommend doing the reformat b/c he said he had a similiar situation and could not get anything to run. I dont want to lose all my files on the hard drive though. Please, any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for any ideas.