Red X on C Drive

Im somewhere between learner and bit more than learner so bare with me please.

I have had numerous problems with my Hp Pavilion zv5000 laptop. Its old now (2003) but ran well in its time. AVG problem which virused it badly, gave to a friend which made it worse. So had a go myself.

Most obvious problem was that it was very slow initially couldn't get online at all, booting up took forever and functions and pages overlapped and didn't refresh. Big Red X on hard drive. I read all threads on this problem and did the following : downloaded Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which found more problems than the rolling stones have had birthdays. One of which was Vundo which has been given as a Red X symptom. Downloaded Advanced System Care (brilliant) which cleaned up all tmp. pos and idx files and general reg clearout. So now Malwarebytes reports 0 problems.

But... although greatful to be posting using laptop which has vastly improved, I still have Red X and she's still slow loading Explorer 8 and sites visited. Once there I can move ok through the site but still slow. Booting up and waiting for programmes to load on Task Bar still slow.

Is it possible that the Red X indicates that unhelpful friend partitioned c drive and how would I know?

Any advice greatfully received, thank you...Boudica

 

If you copy the following quoted text into Notepad

Then Select File > Save as..
Then save as name: RemoveRedX.reg
Then under that line select "Save as type ":> All files
Then select Save (also note: that you can select Desktop as the save location)
Then close Notepad

Then right click on the newly created file RemoveRedX.reg, and select Merge > Yes
Then Restart

The RedX will be gone

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But please reply back, so we can address the other issues as well

 

Thank you for your reply.

I copied pasted merged restarted and the pesky cross still lives

Also noticed some IDX files got past the clean up?

Any further ideas very welcomed, thanks...Boudica

 

Your laptop probably is still infected.

Follow the directions here;
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When done post the required logs here;
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