Increase speed?

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Anyone have suggestions as to how to increase my PC speed? Recently I have been slowed down (long time for apps/pages to load) considerably when running just a few open windows. When I reboot the problem goes away but eventually comes back.
I have run Anti-Malware but no improvement.
Thanks.
 
As rule of thumb, never use anti-virus, anti-spyware provided by a non-well-known public company. The anti-virus and anti-spyware contain the virus and spyware in itself. You get what you pay for. A good well-known company that are using by many corporate are Symantec and McAfee. It's really worth to pay about $50 a year and have a free mind to focus on something else.
 
Quote from Crav:

easy fixes. remove start up programs, remove antivirus, add memory,
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careful in memory (RAM)..."the "computer can only take so much RAM and the rest will be a wasted on money.
 
Quote from eagle:

As rule of thumb, never use anti-virus, anti-spyware provided by a non-well-known public company. The anti-virus and anti-spyware contain the virus and spyware in itself. You get what you pay for. A good well-known company that are using by many corporate are Symantec and McAfee. It's really worth to pay about $50 a year and have a free mind to focus on something else.
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SYMC / MFE products are both bloatware. Switching to Avira, as recommended in earlier threads (started by Paulxx iirc), significantly lowered my memory usage.

If you switch, also perform the anti-nag hack as recommended in same threads.

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You're right. Assuming your computer is less than 5 years old, where the date is counted at the time to market, not at the purchase date. Older computers will suffer a lot of speed slowed by that application. Beside it's large, you get the best protection if your computer is up to date.

Quote from RL8093:

SYMC / MFE products are both bloatware. Switching to Avira, as recommended in earlier threads (started by Paulxx iirc), significantly lowered my memory usage.

If you switch, also perform the anti-nag hack as recommended in same threads.

R
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I believe the best way to really speed up an old computer is to back up everything you deem important and blow it away by formatting/reinstallation of Windows.

Some people are strongly against this idea, but think of it like a colonic irrigation. :)
 
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