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Slow speeds after Windows Update
I posted this once before but didn't get a response. I
have looked around for similar posts but did not see any. Working on Mom-in-laws machine... Had a previously not-updated ME machine on dial-up which became infected with several virus's/adware. Cleaned it up using norton and ad-aware and spybot. System worked fine after but none of the windows patches/updates had ever been installed. Did not have the time to wait on downloads so I ordered the Disk's from MS. Received and installed all updates with the disks. Now she's complaining of slow interned speeds (to the point of making a pot of coffee while waiting for Yahoo weather to open). I will try to disable NAV when I'm there to see if it makes any difference, if only because so many posts have been devoted to it...But does anybody have any suggestions as to what the update could have done/installed that would slow the speeds so much? Could any unneeeded (for her purposes) patches like maybe DirectX slow it? It is the only thing that I did that day that could have made a difference. Thanks Terry |
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Slow speeds after Windows Update
The most likely culprit is NAV - as you have obviously realised!g
The other major player is spyware - Ad-Aware and Spybot can't catch everything, so Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip If that fails - try HiJackThis - search for it on Google. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Terry L" wrote in message ... I posted this once before but didn't get a response. I have looked around for similar posts but did not see any. Working on Mom-in-laws machine... Had a previously not-updated ME machine on dial-up which became infected with several virus's/adware. Cleaned it up using norton and ad-aware and spybot. System worked fine after but none of the windows patches/updates had ever been installed. Did not have the time to wait on downloads so I ordered the Disk's from MS. Received and installed all updates with the disks. Now she's complaining of slow interned speeds (to the point of making a pot of coffee while waiting for Yahoo weather to open). I will try to disable NAV when I'm there to see if it makes any difference, if only because so many posts have been devoted to it...But does anybody have any suggestions as to what the update could have done/installed that would slow the speeds so much? Could any unneeeded (for her purposes) patches like maybe DirectX slow it? It is the only thing that I did that day that could have made a difference. Thanks Terry |
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