But your PC may also have slowed down because it's running lots of background programs installed by apparently reputable companies such as Adobe, Apple, Google and many others, including Microsoft. I'd suggest Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: see my recent post on Removing spyware from Windows for further help. It is certainly true that malware can make a PC run slowly, and you should double-check Norton's opinion by running an alternative as a one-off test. (Windows 7 and Vista have reliability and performance monitors that help.) Unless you are the sort of person who actually benchmarks new PCs, then you won't really know how much it has slowed down, if at all. As the months go by, the new speed feels normal and you start to notice delays when things are not as fast as you'd like. To run Windows XP SP3, a browser and one main program nowadays you should have at least 1GB of memory and at least 1GB of free hard drive space.Īlso, new PCs "feel" fast because they usually are much faster than whatever you had before. Today's updated XP SP3 needs more resources than the original version, launched in 2001. The most obvious is that both the operating system and the applications change as security holes are patched and new features are added. They never (or very rarely) do in real life, for a number of reasons. Which of these is right? And if my PC is clogged up, what is the point of Norton Symantec? It would be nice to be able to make an accurate diagnosis.Ī PC running Microsoft Windows XP should continue to run at the speed it did when you bought it. On the other hand, I am told that slow running is what happens when a PC is full of viruses, and I should consider reinstalling Windows. It has been protected by Norton Symantec throughout its life and, after a recent full system scan, Norton declares it to be in good health with all threats under control. I have a slow-running Dell that's about five years old.
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