OK, here's the deal. I work at a dealership that has wireless Internet. My office computer is about 10 feet from my 2 counter computers, but it's not nearly as fast, and that's what I need help with.

The computer itself runs fine and is pretty clean, I recently removed a lot of spyware from it with the new Microsoft (Giant) antispyware beta program.

My connection speed is probably in the 1.5-2MB range, but on this particular computer it seems as if I'm on dialup and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I noticed the decreas in speed the same day I noticed something else weird that I'll try to explain.

Lets say I opened up this thread and started to type the first line. I'd get about 5 words typed and the field will default to what seems like an inactive window that isn't there. When I'm typing in this window the bar at the top is bright blue to indicate it's active, but out of nowhere it'll turn light blue like I've clicked on another window but I haven't, and it'll do this for 10 minutes or so every morning! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Is there anything I can check on my Internet settings or options that'll clue me in to the problem, or even fix it?

For the record, I'm running Win XP Pro, and I'm sure one of the latest versions of IE.

Thanks for any help .

 

When you are typing and it turns light blue, are you able to continue typing?

 

No, it's like I'm typing into space, I have to re-select the field to make it active. I know the window is just being made inactive, I just don't know why.

 

There must be another program starting. My guess is spyware. Download hijackthis, this will tell you all the foriegn objects in registry i.e. aim,norton etc. Along with that stuff you may find spyware the other programs couldn't detect or get rid of.

 

Hmmm, good idea, I'll do that now, thanks.

 

Microsoft's anti spyware sucks. Get Ad-Aware or Spy bot or anything else. If all you've run is Microsoft's product you can't be comfortable that you've removed everything.

 

adware and spybot don't either. They can't remove the things that make copies fo them selves.

 

What you need to do is hit: CTRL+ALT+DELETE... go to Processes... then close all files that are run under your user name except EXPLORER.EXE & TASKMGR.EXE. Don't close any system/local service/network service files. Close everything else(end process). Then open Ad-Aware... full scan... then make sure you remove (delete) all the files when they show up. Just right click and select all then delete. That should clear the spyware on your computer enough. If that doesn't work, download the latest version of Internet Explorer, you just might have some file missing and that might be causing the problem. Also, make sure your wireless is connected/configured properly. You might want to delete the connection & create it again.

 

Again that doesn't always work but worth a try. There are sperate files that will not be detected with spybot or adware. These files will reproduce the files needed once you start IE or reboot. I guess what im saying is there is no single fix for all spyware.

 

I agree. There must be some program (which may re-duplicate itself automatically) that is slowing down the PC. The trick is to get rid of the file so that it does not duplicate itself- sounds easier than it really is. I spent three hours searching the PC to find all the related files. I finally got rid of them all, my PC runs much quicker now.

Good luck.