Fresh Install WinPro SP3 - SAS found Items!

Hello Forum, Once again I have the need to ask for help.

This time, I cleaned up an old HP Pavilion N5270, model (F2363M) Notebook. I am going to give this to a friend that needs a computer and they're having some financial prob's, so this hopefully will fulfill their needs for now.

Anyway, after the install (from the :crap - y, original install of ME) of XP Pro, the computer appears from the get go to be even slower than I remember earlier! This notebook has been sitting for over a year with no use, but I don't think it was ever so slow! Starting & Closing = Drags. When a window closes, (even worse with multiple windows) it drags very slowly in a cascade from top to bottom. Full screen window will take about 20 seconds to cascade closed!!! I thought maybe I had conflicting drivers, or missing drivers, or completed a bad installation of the OS? Then I remembered it only had 128mb install of ram & cpu is P3,700mhz. So I went online & found 2 sticks of memory to bring it to 512. (should be here anyday now)

Question: Would this major slowdown be because of the new OS over the old ME? Even though the specs (of XP Pro) say that it should be OK? I am hoping that increasing ram by almost 3x, should be a major benefit.

So, back to on post: I then thought maybe I got some kind of Infection? I did an Mbam scan a few days ago & it found some infected items? I did an SAS scan last night & it also found 2 items!

I will follow the instructions in the sticky, but thought I would just forward the reports of the above first, because this is a "Fresh Install" - after partitioning & formatting. I am thinking that maybe they were false positives? Or maybe I did get infected during minor surfing to obtain the necessary Computer Utilities that I normally use?

So, Just to let you know, I will proceed as advised by the forum helpers - you guys are great !!!

Thanks!

 

Hi Tim

Thanks for such a quick reply!

I will do that & make sure the restore points are cleared then reset.

Was ME more optimum for this notebook over XP Pro? That was such a bad OS.

I have an unused copy of Win98 sp2 (?) Would that be better? Whadyya Think?

And yes, 2 gigs is too much. The max this notebook for the cpu is 512mb of ram.

I appreciate the help. Should I do anything else after cleaning & flushing out the restore points and resetting?

Oh, 1 thing; for curiosity sake... was the false positive from Everest? SAS said it was a Trojan.

Have a great weekend :cool

 

Thanks.

Any suggestions as to which AV to look at. Have you found one to be less "Resources" hungry over another.

If I can ask you to rate per your humble opinion rolleyes,

• Avast! Free
• Avira Anti-Vir
• AVG Free
• Kaspersky

Or should I invest in a commercial one?

Also, since you say that this computer is too old & too slow, I have upgraded to XP Pro, Upgraded to SP3, & also have installed & upgraded to IE8, I am sure I have loaded probably too much for the 700 mhz processor to compute decently. Is it possible to completely delete IE altogether? Will there be ramifications if I do this? Is Firefox less taxing on the system over Chrome? or maybe Opera? Please advise. Thanks a whole lot!!!

PS...
Please let me know if this should be re-directed into a different thread, maybe an administrator can move it or just tell me to start a new thread in the proper forum. Sorry if I did get off focus - :-o