All apps slow to open

Hi steveo65. Follow these steps to make your computer faster.

Please do the following:

1. Click Start< Control Panel< Add/Remove Programs and uninstall any programs that you don't use.
2. While in the add/remove programs window click the button that says add/remove windows components and uncheck the checkboxes next to Indexing Service, MSN Explorer, Windows Messenger and click ok when you are done.
3. Disable any Windows Services that you don't use by following Black Vipers Services Guide.
4. Download and run ATF Cleaner and select all the checkboxes in the program then hit the empty selected button, http://majorgeeks.com/ATF_Cleaner_d4949.html.
5. Run Disk Cleanup, Start< All Programs< Accessories< Sytstem Tools< Disk Cleanup. When its done calculating how much free space you can save make sure you check all the checkboxes except for compress old files.
6. Click Start< Right Click My Computer and click Properties. Click the advanced tab< Under performance hit settings< click advanced again and under virtual memory click change< Make sure your harddrive is selected and select the option that says system managed size and click the set button. Now Click ok on all the windows to close them out and reboot the computer.
7. Do you have Windows XP Service Pack 3 installed? If you don't then download it from here.
8. I see you have Regcure installed. Registry Cleaners do more harm than good to a computer. They can make your computer unbootable if you delete the wrong registry key. Regcure is considered a scam and will not give you any increase in your computers speed. I would suggest that you remove Regcure immediatly and read this article, Why I Don't Use Registry Cleaners.

Let me know if your computer is faster after performing the above steps.

 

Normally a fresh install will get your computer at its top speed because it doesn't have any programs or other services bogging down the computer. How much RAM does your computer have? Have you uninstalled RegCure? Are you using any third party firewalls? Do you have Norton or Mcafee security suites installed?

 

Try shutting down all backrgound programs that are running in the system tray in the taskbar including your security applications and then try using the computer for a while. Also look in task manager< processes tab and note how many processes your computer is running. After you do that go to Answers That Work and click on the Task List. Look through the list and see if their are any processes that you can stop from running.