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Re: Computer is always "busy" and is now s..l..o..w...
Righty-O, thanks for the instructions. My apologies if my last post seemed rude, I am very grateful for your assistance and I completely understand that you're doing this on a voluntary basis and that you have a bazillion threads to work with!
I performed the RegSearch, the file it created is HUGE!!! So I've attached it rather than copy - paste, it also froze after a minute or two, it looks like the file was created successfully but it died in the process of making it.
As for anti-virus, AVG was working beautifully until version 8?!? I downloaded a trial of Avast to try and it seems to work without taking over my computer so far, so if all goes well for a little while I'll look into purchasing it.
As for autoruns...it is an OUTSTANDING tool! It was very clear what each process was and I found some remnants of my old Nokia Phone software which I disabled. I'll continue to search through those items and make sense of them.
The only remaining icon that I couldn't repair was htm and html documents. I went through the File Types window and found the correct icon in the Firefox executable but when I select it, it won't change...it's hardly a big issue but annoying me.
Apart from this, I feel since I've ditched AVG the system is running much better, it only takes a minute or two to load up and it doesn't sound busy all the time. I'm satisfied my little workhorse is in better shape.
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