Ok, a friend of mine complains about his compu being noticably slower the last few days.
especially when working with explorer (not internet explorer).
It so happens that I also installed a few programs with him a few days ago:
- norton antivirus and internet security
- spysweeper
- ad aware
- firfox
- (spybot? not sure if i installed it)
I know norton seriously slows down boottime and pc response in general is slower but not as extreme as my friend discribed it.
also spysweeper has this memory shield that slowed down internet browsing quite a bit but I tested that on his compu and there was no niticeable difference. I can't remeber if browsing the harddisk was slower with memory shield active...
he's going to run the spyware tools tomorrow although I doubt that that 'll be the cause of this sudden sloth.
i'm open to suggestions as to what the cause of this problem could be
