Need Recommendation for Registery Cleaner

[DavidR]

Its all right saying throw some more RAM at it. But upgrading RAM on a laptop (and most likely an old laptop) is no easy task and one that may be disproportionately expensive. The older the laptop the greater the possibility in a lower max RAM size.

[Busymama62]

I am going to respond below in the body of your message...

I quickly browsed through this thread and noticed, reg cleaner, temp file cleaner, defrag, etc. I didn't see specs, apps loaded in memory at start, how many apps you normally have running in a session, etc. I have a few questions.

1. What programs are loaded into memory when the computer starts? If there are many, are there any that you can do without? Reducing what starts can help with low memory problems. Running very few apps simultaneously will help too. How many apps do you run simultaneously?

A Little background....My old laptop was an Acer, I do not know how much RAM it had.  It had 2 drives with 18Gig each but the main operating drive kept maxing out till it reset itself.  I don't know what else to call it.  I had moved what programs I could to the D drive.  Hmmm, Apps, Clearwire, and maybe several Firefox windows.  Sometimes Word and Excell together.  I do a lot of going back and forth between windows.  How do I figure out what is in the start up?  Oh back to background one of the Deacons where we go to church gave me this Old Dell, no discs or anything.

2. What are the system specs of your old computer and your newly acquired computer. I have a dual core laptop and a pentium 4 single core pc. I don't have much patience anymore to sign on to the Pentium 4 single core after using the laptop with the dual core processor. Most tasks on the dual core laptop happen without delay.

I gave what I remember about the Acer above.  The Dell is a Latitude, Pentium 3 with 18gig Hard drive and 512mb RAM

My question is, are you comparing apples to apples? Did your previous computer have better specs than your newly acquired computer?

No I am not comparing Apples to Apples, we couldn't afford to purchase a new laptop and were given this one. 

3. What about the operating system condition? Fully updated? All programs and drivers updated? Is it clean? Has it crashed or ever had a virus that has damaged anything important?

Once I installed my Clearwire the system did an automatic up date that had I think it was 17 updates.  As far as clean, I ran Avast and Malewarebytes.  I have no idea about your last question.

4. What antivirus program was installed before avast and how did you remove it?
AVG and I used the add/remove programs

5. Were you given any recovery cd's?
Nol

[Charyb-0]

Will you please give the model # (extended model number) of the Dell Latitude? Some had 2 slots that would only hold 256mb each which adds up to 512mb total. You could possibly already be maxed out on the memory you can add. No way of knowing without a model # or physically accessing the laptop.

Are you using Windows XP? Or Windows 2000? What is your processor speed? Go to control panel -> system to find this.

Follow these instructions to view which programs are starting at boot.  Will you please expand the command line and post an image of the programs located under the startup tab? At this point, please do not make any changes to any settings. -> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/quickly-remove-items-from-windows-xp-startup/


I think the first thing that should be attempted is to reduce resource usage as much as possible and scan the system for integrity.

Honestly, this is no power house setup and could possibly date back to around early 2000 (assuming this due to the Pentium 3 processor). It's difficult for me to know how slow, slow is. Whether you are maxed out on the memory you can add is yet to be determined. If it were me and memory could be added, I wouldn't. It would be best to save this money for a newer laptop with better specs. Maybe refurbished? Not my call though.

Will you please run AVG removal utility from here -> http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/
This is to make certain any remnants are fully removed.

[bob3160]

I see one huge problem. You have only 512 MB of RAM. you might want to increase your Ram to a minimum of 2 GB.
I went from 3GB to 6GB. The fact that you have only 512 MB of RAM could be a major player as to why your machine is
running slow. 

This issue has already been discussed.

[Busymama62]

Responding below...

Will you please give the model # (extended model number) of the Dell Latitude? Some had 2 slots that would only hold 256mb each which adds up to 512mb total. You could possibly already be maxed out on the memory you can add.  No way of knowing without a model # or physically accessing the laptop.

Model PPO1L  Latitude C600/C500. 

Are you using Windows XP? Or Windows 2000? What is your processor speed? Go to control panel -> system to find this.

Windows XP, 851 MHz

Follow these instructions to view which programs are starting at boot.  Will you please expand the command line and post an image of the programs located under the startup tab? At this point, please do not make any changes to any settings. -> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/quickly-remove-items-from-windows-xp-startup/

Sorry, not sure what you mean by expand Command line.  I tried to copy and it wouldn't let me so I am going to type here....
ClearwireCM  This is my ISP
AvastUI
AdobeARM
BrStMonw   I have no idea what this is.
ctfmon   I have no idea what this is.


I think the first thing that should be attempted is to reduce resource usage as much as possible and scan the system for integrity.

Honestly, this is no power house setup and could possibly date back to around early 2000 (assuming this due to the Pentium 3 processor). It's difficult for me to know how slow, slow is. Whether you are maxed out on the memory you can add is yet to be determined. If it were me and memory could be added, I wouldn't. It would be best to save this money for a newer laptop with better specs. Maybe refurbished? Not my call though.

Will you please run AVG removal utility from here -> http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/
This is to make certain any remnants are fully removed.

Fixing to run now.  Thanks!

[DavidR]

Looks like the laptop has a maximum RAM of 512MB and a lowly Intel Pentium III CPU, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latc600/en/ug/specs.htm.

[Busymama62]

I don't know which uninstaller to choose.  All I remember is that it had AVG and I uninstalled it and installed Avast.

Will you please run AVG removal utility from here -> http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/
This is to make certain any remnants are fully removed.
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[Busymama62]

Great!

Looks like the laptop has a maximum RAM of 512MB and a lowly Intel Pentium III CPU, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latc600/en/ug/specs.htm.

[Busymama62]

Have learned that a big part of my issue is the 1. USB.  He is going to try to find a 2.0.  My ISP is a USB Modem, I do a lot of work on flash drives.  The older version of the USB would be causing the internet especially to be slow.  Hopefully he will have what I need and I can get it on Sunday.