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Originally Posted by pjphilli
Thanks Andrew
I have run pagedfrg and it has defragged the files.
I have now implemented all the suggestions from this thread and I have ordered 2GB of ram which is quite cheap. By examining computer usage
I think I have found the main cause of my problem. It appears to be my AVG virus detection software. I have been running the free version for some years and it seems effective in protecting my system. However, they advised an upgrade to Version 9 some months ago and as I now recall my troubles seem to start from this time. The problem is that the computer scanner seems to want to run every time I start the computer whereas I would prefer to run this only occasionally. This function in AVG is separate from the AVG anti virus, spyware, email scanner etc which I am of course happy to have running any time I am on the net.
I am now trying to see how I can turn this automatic start of AVG computer scanner off but this is not obvious. When running in the fast mode it mostly uses 100% of the PC usage and even in the slow mode it peaks frequently up to 80%, so I think that this is the main cause of my slow XP.
Perhaps someone who is running AVG can give me advice on this?
Cheers Peter
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My advice is to stop using AVG it is well known to slow computers in my experience. Before I started using Microsoft Security Essentials I was using Avast Home Edition but I recommend MSE as it is free and I have had no problems since installing it. Disclaimer I have no connection to Microsoft in fact I have more problems with them then I have good experience with them up untill they released Win7
