re: Many machines slowing down lately, why?
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 7:59 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian
(630 messages posted)
I'd take a hard look at Zone Alarm - the latest version is terrible. I've removed
it and noticed a BIG difference.
On Friday, July 25, 2008 at 6:28 am, ApprenticeDave wrote:
>This has been bothering me for some time now. I work on about 15 computers a month,
>on average. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Most of the time, circumstances deem
>it necessary to where the client is better off with just starting off on a clean
>slate. Heres how I do that.
>
>First I back up all data thats important to the client. Then I use Driver Genius
>to back up all of their drivers. I run Belarc and SIW to obtain all system information,
>installed programs and their related product keys, and save that information. I
nuke
>the hard drive, as opposed to just reformatting because Im a paranoid freak. Then
>I reinstall the operating system (lets say XP Home as an example), reinstall the
>drivers, and run all of the Windows updates, which here recently include Service
>Pack 3. I install AVG 8.0 and Zone Alarm.
>
>Here lately in many incidences, (not all, but many) the people are telling me that
>their computers are running slower than before, particularly while on line. I know
>the proper way to figure this out would be to eliminate one thing at a time until
>the answer presents itself. Like perhaps reverting to IE 6, or eliminating the Phishing
>filter, or eliminating SP3, or eliminating Zone Alarm, and so forth and so on.
>
>But before I drove myself insane, I thought I would just ask if anyone else had
noticed
>this or tried to work on this problem.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>
>David
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