Hi Para-
Thank you for that
important and much appreciated info. The last thing I need is someone trying to sell me something.
I don't you know if you have been following the other thread I started last week, re: "Avast has messed up my computer"--but a forum member here, Essexboy, Schmidthouse, Gopher John and IXWolfe all gave me advice, and essexboy really helped me get things back to normal with Avast.
However, I am STILL having problems with my computer being too slow, and it is now running even slower than it was before, which makes me wonder if I couldn't have done something wrong, or, perhaps I just need to take the last step that essex provided me with, which was to get some more RAM, because things are really messed up in that department.
I Googles "How to I boost my RAM for free?". I am on a fixed income (Yes, I'm a dinosaur
) and have to search for as much "free" stuff when it comes to my 10 year old PC as I can get. : (
Well...I was provided with a couple links to You Tube videos on how to add RAM by taking it from the actuall Hard Drive. I was trying to follow along with this one, but had a hard time since the person isn't using XP, and when he got to the point where he uses the calculator--I was totally lost. Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk14nPuz4ns Anyway...I thought that maybe if I tried essexboys suggestion and add sme more RAM, that this might help.
Also, I am using a program called "Super Anti Spyware Free Edition", and for some reason when I run a scan(which I am forced to do several times throughout the day) a bunch of Ad.ware, and once in awhile some serious malware comes up during the scan that needs to be removed. I'm assuming that, when I run a scan with Avast, and none of the Ad.ware comes up during the Avast scan, that the ad.ware isn't that much of a threat, so Avast doesn't mess with it, but then, I don't know, not being computer savvy.
Then, at the end of the Smart Scan, I am told that I have issues with my network, and that I have 21 pieces of "Junk" that need to be removed, but that in order for me to remove it I need to upgrade to one of the other Avast products. So, I am guessing that this could also be causing the computer to slow down.
Does any of this make any sense? I feel like a real dumb bell not knowing any of this stuff!
Thanks so much, Para-Noid