my friend just got a brand new gateway pc. not sure about memory and all that. it has a dvd burner installed. win xp.
unfortunatelyt for her dsl is not available where she lives so in the meantime she has yahoo dial:( (i know, i know)
mcafee protection was already installed. ad-aware se is also installed. she tried installing an msn dial disk she had on her previous pc. i think it is only partially installed though. when i first hooked her new computer up for her it had like 79 running processes in task manager. this was a week ago. now it has 60-62 constantly running. i know dial up sucks, but she had AOL came installed when she bought the pc. it was still slow then but now that she is on yahoo it seems to be slower. Given, hopefully, enough facts on this does anyone have any advice for her? I also need a recomendation for a good antivirus. i don't think mcafee is helping any. Thanks for reading the whole thing to whoever has an answer!
New gateway pc running slow?symantic
If gateways are anything like compaqs they have a ton of useless gateway ''apps'' loaded and running. I'd go to add/remove programs and physically remove anything with the word ''gateway'' in it. Be a good time to uninstall any toobars present too (except google of course). Also be a good idea to go into msconfig and remove anything unnecessary from loading at startup (necessary being the antivirus and firewall).
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