WINDOWS VISTA BASIC & AVG FREE EDITION THAT I'VE

[hunnybunnygirl]

My girlfriend has Windows Vista basic on her Fijitsu Siemens laptop and has installed the free edition of AVG. Since the AVG has been installed the computer takes forever to start up ie 10 mins or so. Any advice would be really appreciated.

HBG xx

[monosodium]

Given AVG was the last thing to be installed...

Did she remove any antivirus that came pre-installed with the machine before installing AVG?

If not then disconnect from the internet, boot to "safe mode", remove both AVG & whatever other A/V is there & go back to normal. Install AVG again before you hook back up to the net. Give that a whirl and report back on how it goes...

[hunnybunnygirl]

Thank you Monosodium for your advice I will see how it goes and report back.

HBG XX

[cosmicB]

I've been using this following method of super-cleaning XP notebooks, and W98se desktops, for three years now, with absolutely Zero ill-effects... It only makes computers run clean, fast, and smooth... These softwares have been fully developed, without any glitches nor errors... They've all won legitimate softwares awards...
Plus MajorGeeks hard-tests all the softwares they allow into their downloads system.. and should a software have any bad in it, they trash it, and refuse to make it available for download... You can really trust MajorGeeks...


Download the following, and install them...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Cacheman_XP_d4102.html

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download414.html

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Free_Window_Registry_Repair_d5461.html

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2471


The only thing I don't use in those cleanup programs, is "EasyCleaner's duplicates cleaner".. It's too easy to make a mistake with cleaning duplicates.. but the rest are safe as safe can be, to be run on a daily basis... From the sounds of the computer you've described, I'll bet this cleanup will remove about 10 gigs of slow-down garbage.. and it's very likely that "Spybot S&D" will remove at least thirty to fifty nasty spyware bugs... Then run the PC's DiskCleaner, and Defrag, then Reboot...

[Joyofsox]

Can you set it up to go into 'hibernate' mode instead of turning it off completely? I do this on my Dell laptop and it is up to speed in about 10 secs instead of 2 mins.

[cosmicB]

I did a little search on that notebook being slow, and everything comes up that it's just a slow computer, a poorly designed system... Seems your friend would be best off just tossing that crap thing in the garbage, and buying a real computer, like an "HP Media Notebook"... Seems that fujitsu stuff is just garbage, even when it's new in the box...
At least now I know the brand name of one item that I will never ever even consider buying, ever!.. Thanks for the heads-up on what is garbage, to be avoided...



http://asknerd.net/slowlaptop.html

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofiversion/index.php/t111688.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=430689

http://mike.passwall.com/fujitsu/

http://computershopper.com/reviews/fujitsu-lifebook-u810-laptop-review

http://www.pocketables.net/2008/01/review-fujitsu.html

[minigirl]

Can you set it up to go into 'hibernate' mode.....

maybe we should do that to cosmicb.....

[monosodium]

maybe we should do that to cosmicb.....

[cosmicB]

My girlfriend has Windows Vista basic on her Fijitsu Siemens laptop and has installed the free edition of AVG. Since the AVG has been installed the computer takes forever to start up ie 10 mins or so. Any advice would be really appreciated.

HBG xx

Dear Hunnybuns

Another fact that I've run into with using AVG, is that it makes my PC boot and run slow and troublesome, plus it has damaged way too many OS's so badly that I've had to format C, and reload the system on several occasions from using AVG... I wrote AVG off... I just can't get it to do what it says it does... Once installed, I get all kinds of warnings pop-ups about glitches in the OS...

The best AVS I've found out there, is "nod32"... It hasn't caused any probs in this HP notebook for nearly two years running... And the people who use this notebook don't have a clue about e-viruses... they do all the wrong things, and node32 has kept all the nasties out.. so far... knock on wood.. cross fingers.. pick nose.. jump up and down on one leg whilst spinning clockwise, screaming the "The cat died when it fell off the bridge"...
Only trouble with node32 is that it costs a few $... but it seems to be well worth it...
Trusting those freebie AVS's only runs you into serious troubles... One day you'll open a wicked email, or touch a rotten website, and it's game over for your PC's operating system... You might as well go buy the AVS that really works like it says on the box... http://www.eset.com/

I don't run an AVS, nor a firewall, in this desktop... I run the Internet with great caution, and a few logical basic rules, and this PC hasn't caught a bug for three months running it on the Net daily...

Bottom line is, you are your best security...

Another thing that might be causing some the trouble in your friend's PC, is Macromedia and Shockwave... If I had those troubles I would dump AVG, and shockwave, and macromedia, and use CMDiskCleaner's custom search to clean-out: showbehind, macromedia, shockwave, backweb, and desktopmessenger... Reboot.. Then see how the thing runs... If it still runs slow, and you've tried the cleanups I've mentioned in an earlier post, you might contact the manufacturer...


"Dear Sirs

My company has 118 of your notebooks. They are all running way too slow. The staff is hounding me daily to trash all your brand of equipment, and change it to one that works. Do you have any advice on how to make your notebooks run properly?"


That ought to get their attention...

[cosmicB]

OH Shidt!.. I just realized that AVG has a feature that it will scan the hd on boot... Maybe all you need do is go into prefs and click Off that feature...
Dam! I wish I had of thought of that before...

[minigirl]

my pc (running windows xp) has avg and the full macromedia suite including flash and shockwave and i don't have any problems....

[monosodium]

Can you set it up to go into 'hibernate' mode instead of turning it off completely? I do this on my Dell laptop and it is up to speed in about 10 secs instead of 2 mins.

This is actually the default state for vista (or at least it was on the beta, which was last time I used it). The shut down that actually started the machine up "clean" was a submenu off the shutdown button.

[Joyofsox]

I find hibernate really useful as I use Autocad a fair bit and I can continue with the same drawing so much easier as it stays ready. After a week or so I do a full closedown and restart as I can get lazy and end up with far too many windows running. I could just try to work with more discipline, but that is not really me.

[cosmicB]

my pc (running windows xp) has avg and the full macromedia suite including flash and shockwave and i don't have any problems....

You think....

So just as an experiment, time the speed of your PC's functions.. then run defrag, and free window registry repair, and ccleaner, dump macro and shock, and do a search and destroy for the five-poops, and disable AVG, and do a full scan with Spybot S&D... Reboot, run defrag again, and free registry repair, and ccleaner, then time your PC's functions, including shutdown and reboot... I bet those crap softwares are eating up 20% of your PC's efficiency, and if you ever ever get lock ups, they definitely are the cause...

Shock and macro are essentially just advertising softwares, to make it easy for you to permit spies into you machine... They lure you in by creating a few exciting games that you need their programs to run.. plus the fact that a lot of sites use that "advert tsunami squid" to allow you to view their slide shows and such... The darn thing attaches itself to everything in your computer... But it's just marketing software... "money sucking"... "welcomed trojans"... I see it like wearing a tie, or like the system installing a tight collar and leash to you... I tossed all my silk ties in the garbage where they belong.. and I don't permit macro stuff in my computers... You do what ever turns your crank...

[Mr JACA]

and buying a real computer, like an "HP Media Notebook"...

WHAT???? Overpriced rubbish.

Try Asus.