Please Help! - Dell Speed Problems

[Duane]

AIM is really bad.

Anytime the wife or her little sister would load it on my puter I would delete it off and finally told them NOT to load it.

However my mother keeps it on her computer no matter how many times I have told her to remove it.

That on top of the MS buddy or whatever it is called. I ALWAYS remove those from any computer I work on unless someone specifically tells me not to remove it.

Do you know if Trillion is less resource intensive than the other IM programs? I've been using it in place of Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, etc...

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Do you know if Trillion is less resource intensive than the other IM programs? I've been using it in place of Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, etc...

Could not tell you

I have never used it.

The only one I ever used was ICQ but quit that a few years ago after I think AOL or one of the other companies bought it.

ICQ never really was secure, I know me and my friend would hack into each others computers and nuke each other because we could get info through ICQ.

Not sure if it is still that bad or not.

 

[GTaylor]

Do you know if Trillion is less resource intensive than the other IM programs? I've been using it in place of Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, etc...

I would reccomend Trillion over any other IM apps.

DragonCowboy, I'd uncheck the 4 items (But you don't have to):

- justsched is for your java apps, myself I'd uncheck this as I'm weary of java.

- issch.exe is for the installshield which I uncheck, however this stupid app always re-enables itself. To me this doesn't look right when you tell it not to run and it ignores you.

- realsched is for realplayer, if you like RealPlayer than keep this. Myself I hate realplayer (With a capital H), you can download realaternative here and it'll work with your current media player (Also has a quicktime alternative here)

- qttask (See RealPlayer above, only this is for Quicktime)

Depending on whom you ask, RealPlayer can be considered spyware, IMO it's bloated and drags your system down just like spyware. Unchecking the above won't make a ton of difference, but that along with defragging should help.

 

[DragonCowboy]

I would reccomend Trillion over any other IM apps.

DragonCowboy, I'd uncheck the 4 items (But you don't have to):

- justsched is for your java apps, myself I'd uncheck this as I'm weary of java.

- issch.exe is for the installshield which I uncheck, however this stupid app always re-enables itself. To me this doesn't look right when you tell it not to run and it ignores you.

- realsched is for realplayer, if you like RealPlayer than keep this. Myself I hate realplayer (With a capital H), you can download realaternative here and it'll work with your current media player (Also has a quicktime alternative here)

- qttask (See RealPlayer above, only this is for Quicktime)

Depending on whom you ask, RealPlayer can be considered spyware, IMO it's bloated and drags your system down just like spyware. Unchecking the above won't make a ton of difference, but that along with defragging should help.

I don't even use RealPlayer lol. No idea why it's there.

Thanks for the help guys. I think AIM is the reason everything is bad. Everything is fine now.

BTW, I've found some Rootkits, how do I delete them?

 

[GTaylor]

realplayer was probably pre-installed when you got your Dell. I spent about an hour removing all the junk from my last PC. Lots of fun.

Regarding rootkits, are you positive that you have rootkits? By this are you getting "somethingsomething.exe hidden" or something about numbers/values not matching? Also did you run the scan after doing some surfing/opening apps, etc? Mark Russinovich advises that you boot up, then run rookit revealer, by any chance did Blacklight find anything? It's possible a legitimate app may have used rootkit technology (Norton was known to do this, not that it makes it right). Whatever results you get you may want to do a google search just to confirm that it's not a false positive.

I hate to say it but if you really do have a rootkit, save all your files onto a cd/jump drive or somewhere outside your PC and reinstall Windows. Rootkits are that bad and that much a pain in the butt to get rid of.

 

[DragonCowboy]

realplayer was probably pre-installed when you got your Dell. I spent about an hour removing all the junk from my last PC. Lots of fun.

Regarding rootkits, are you positive that you have rootkits? By this are you getting "somethingsomething.exe hidden" or something about numbers/values not matching? Also did you run the scan after doing some surfing/opening apps, etc? Mark Russinovich advises that you boot up, then run rookit revealer, by any chance did Blacklight find anything? It's possible a legitimate app may have used rootkit technology (Norton was known to do this, not that it makes it right). Whatever results you get you may want to do a google search just to confirm that it's not a false positive.

I hate to say it but if you really do have a rootkit, save all your files onto a cd/jump drive or somewhere outside your PC and reinstall Windows. Rootkits are that bad and that much a pain in the butt to get rid of.

OK, I'll check it out and see.

When I restarted my computer after changing the System Configuration, it said something about:

"Shellcon Hidden Window", and how it was "Not Responding". Do you know anything about that?

 

[GTaylor]

Looks like Musicmatch is your problem, while thankfully not a rootkit, was one of the items I removed from my HP. Just uncheck mimboot from your startup and it'll be okay...or if you don't use Musicmatch you can simply uninstall it via Add/Remove.

 

[DragonCowboy]

Looks like Musicmatch is your problem, while thankfully not a rootkit, was one of the items I removed from my HP. Just uncheck mimboot from your startup and it'll be okay...or if you don't use Musicmatch you can simply uninstall it via Add/Remove.

Thank you everyone!

My computer is now up to full speed.

It is actually faster, now that I switched to Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks guys!