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Community Newsletter: Q&A: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one
- 5/12/05 2:31 PM
Excellent Reply - Additional Opinion
by cscoder - 5/14/05 9:11 AM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In my experience if you use Norton AntiVirus you may get good results, but eventually you'll encounter some problem that will be a pain to solve. I've been using PC's and enduring Norton/Symantec products since Norton Undelete came out for the original PC. Except for that one excellent product and his one excellent book, I have been frustrated at one time or another ever since by Norton/Symantec products to the point where I will not have them on any machine I own, even if they come installed. You can go out and look at the majority of actual user reviews on any CNet Review of Norton Anti-Virus or Security Suites and you will see the same sort of disgust for Symantec.
I dislike McAfee for the moronic interface, but I used it for awhile after banishing Symantec. After reading many reviews I went with Avast, which is free - so that's my recommendatiion.
Good luck. I've been a professional programmer for 20 years, and I'm saving the Dana H. response as a checklist for my own use, so I recommend you follow it right down the line.
A couple of general pointers
by Jamie314 - 5/14/05 4:14 PM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For general computer maintenance information, check out other areas of the CNET site, like the help section on the left sidebar, and the forums. Most likely, you'll find all the information you need.
My blog also features basic walkthroughs on how to do various maintenance tasks, such as speeding up a slow computer and defragmenting hard drives with Windows. You'll find it at:
http://pchowto.blogspot.com
HTH 
One last issue....
by cayble - 5/15/05 6:48 PM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Check to see if you have file compression on tour drive. Compressing the drive will certainly save some space but it can slow things down alot if you have the whole drive compressed.
Dana ROCKS!
by GRainone - 5/15/05 9:14 PM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Man, Dana (he or she?) knows their stuff, imho.
Nice article/response!
Don't blame the computer .. it is the operator!
by Rock2k - 5/15/05 11:18 PM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Computers do just what we tell them to do! I have used Dell systems professionaly for the last 12 years, besides Dell is a company that spends a little bit more money in shipping certified systems to customers, regardless of business size.
It just happened to me this week, I delivered a system in peak performance, came back to the customer's place after two days just to find the system cloaged with trojans and other "beauties" installes after the customer "customized" the system with some "neat" screen saver and a Internet "search engine" tool bar, which also installed a bunch of adware.
People just don't know what they put in their system, if you go to Internet, a firewall and antivirus is a must, spyware utilities are also recommended, because this is what cloags the most of computers in these days. I will recommend to Mitch to go to www.lavasoftusa.com get and install Ad-Aware, update it, and run a scan and see the amount of objects this utility will find, after the scan I bet the computer will improve speed.
Happy computing, and don't blame it on the puter, less in reputable companies like Dell.
J.C. Alexandres
IT Professional
Sidebar: Help with running processes
by rosmo - 5/16/05 4:57 AM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
There is a site that I use quite often that has an A-Z list identifying running processes and their associations. Although the list is not all inclusive, it does cover a broad range of viruses,worms, and a host of third party executables:
Go to: http://www.answersthatwork.com >click on the <TaskList> button at the bottom.
Hope that helps some.
Regards,
Alex
Other Windows versions
by watersdc - 5/31/05 12:21 PM In reply to: 5/13/05 My new PC performing worse than my old one by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The majority of my (older) customers are still using Windows 98 and some are using ME, but very few are using XP.
I know this answer was to that problem, but my experience shows me those that stick with what they know and do not rush to get the latest and greatest are usually the happiest computer users.
Durand C. Waters
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