>In addition to all the other suggestions of cleaning out temp folders and cleaning out other junk -- make sure you've got an anti-virus as well as anti-spyware software (also it's a good practice to verify that it's running and up to date as well).
Good point in general, but ironically, antivirus and antispyware that is functioning perfectly can significantly show a machine :-(
A detailed, fairly recent performance comparison:
http://www.passmark.com/ftp/antivirus_09-performance-testing-ed1.pdfThe link above compares products to one another. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at the thread discussing whether to use
any antivirus at all ( Thread#
1363974 ). I found a link that compared various criteria like disk performance, comparing no AV to having various suites installed. Some of the performance degradations were shockingly bad. I just tried to find that link again, but can't. Closest I can find is
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330480,00.asp
Regards. Al
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