do you need AVG cleaner and Spybot on your startup menu?

I am talking about the tray that is on the right, i have avg and spyboy both on there at all times, all i know is my computer takes forever to get the internet to come up, it is so slow and i have dsl. but you have to wait like a minute for the internet to finally sign on, what is up with that. i am thinking it is avg and spyboy on the tray, shouldnt it not be there and just only be on the desktop, thanks so much, i would love some help.

 

Avg is supposed to be there because it is running to help prevent virus attacks on you computer.
Spybot is a run as needed program and should be on the desktop. I haven't seen it running in the back ground before

 

have you done any maintenance on your computer , this link may assist you in getting a little more speed.
Basic Computer Maintenance everyone should do

 

You need AVG to show there. I assume that you're talking about Spybot S&D?

If so, disable (untick) the tea timer in advanced mode>tools>resident because it's resource hungry.

EDIT: While at it, you may want to "disable" the tea timer in "System Startup" in Spybot as well by taking the checkmark out if it's there.

Personally when I installed Spybot I opted out of the tea timer.

 

thanks, yeah we have the teatimer, okay let me go try this, hold on.

 

okay, so i just disabled the tea timer, now my question is do i go back and click back on default mode instead of advanced?

 

thanks i did that as well. thank you.

 

AVG definitely should be there if you want to be notified when your system may be in harm.

 

Your choice kat. I leave it in the advanced mode because it won't interfere with Spybot's functions that I know of.
Did you reboot after disabling the tea timer? That way you know for certain if it's gone from the Taskbar. Hopefully, you boot time will be faster.

 

oh , i didnt restart the computer, I will do that, so i went into the advanced mood and it said that it may do harm to my computer if i dont know what i am doing, or something like that it was just talking about the advance mode. it didnt say that on the default mode.

 

As per pic, did you only remove the check from the Tea Timer? Hope you haven't unchecked the SD helper?

What box, if any, did you uncheck in Spybot's "System Startup"? It's supposed to be the Tea Timer, that's all. If unsure if it was the Tea Timer, put the "tick" check back in the System Startup where you removed it.

I can't show the unticked box of the Tea Timer in a pic because I installed Spybot without the Tea Timer, so it's not there in my case.

 

oh gosh, you had me scared there for a second, but no, i didnt remove teh sd helper, it is still on there, whew, lol, i was scared.

thanks again for your help,

 

Now you had me scared as well for a bit. My bad, didn't want to scare you. :-o

When reading your response now I realized that Spybot does have a warning when you go into Advanced Mode. It just tells you that you should be knowing what you're doing prior to making any changes. Had forgotten that since I have it in this mode for years!! Should have warned you about that.

Hope that all is okay now.

 

yeah, it is so much better, thank you soo sooo much.