Any techie tips please..?

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  1. budmustang

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    My broadband connection (and computer for that matter) is running real slow lately. I suppose I should do a re-install of Windows but the idea of having to re-install a load of drivers, applications and sort out all my passwords makes my head spin. Do I have all the discs? Probably... somewhere in my house! I've used RegSeeker to clean up the registery somewhat (only the green "safe" entries if you're familiar with the program). No real change. I've un-installed a load of unused applications. I've cleared the internet history using IE. How do you clear Firefox's internet cache? There doesn't seem to be an option. Does it use the same Temporary Internet Files folder that IE does? Any help and tips would be appreciated. Cheers.
     
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    Try running speedtest www.speedtest.net to check the broadband

    But usually if you have slow running a process is hogging cpu time

    if you press CTRL ALT DELETE you get a popup - select Task Mananger

    This will pop up a the task manager window, Select Processes and look at the CPU column

    Ideally the System Idle Process should be hovering around 90% though it will jump around - if its low say less than 20% look through the processes and find which one is taking the time - if you arent running anything other than web bropwswers etc nomost will be at 00 - anything consitently taking time needs investigating
     
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    Thanks for the reply. Outpost (the firewall!) is taking 98% of the cpu time! What the..?
     
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    Well thats your problem

    Dont know anything about that one - you could try uninstalling and reinstalling it and see if that fixes it.
    otherwise I'd bin it and use a different firewall
     
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    PS - run a virus check

    The online housecall is a good free one - its possible that the reason your firewall is taking lots of time is a virus is pinging it

    http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
     
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