Any computer guys out there? I need your help. All of a sudden my computer is running really slow. trying to view web pages is getting to be a real test of patience. It takes forever to navigate from page to page. Even off line functions are really slow. I ran Norton 360 scans and that was not a whole lot of help. Any suggestions?

I ran Norton 360 scans and that was not a whole lot of help. Any suggestions?

Yep. Get rid of Norton. MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) is a great free program. Also, for manual scans, use MBAM (Malware Bytes Anti-Malware). It doesn't run in the background, but it is top notch for seeking out troublesome files.

There is a lot of other techno-babble that I could get into (entering safe mode, turning your hidden files to "viewable" etc.), but it depends on your level of tech-saviness because I am not very good at giving layperson instructions.

When was the last time you ran a disk defrag (assuming you aren't using a solid state drive as your system disk)?

When was the last time you rebooted your machine?

What OS are you running?

How much system memory?

What processor?

3 words...Get a Mac.

Hard to say without knowing the questions hooyah is asking.

are you using Internet Explorer? do you have ton's of "toolbars" at the top ie yahoo, bling, 'xyz'. abort the mission and switch to Google Chrome. it uses far less add-on's so ur web won't jam up as much. and chrome is much better at blocking spam than IE. you can choose to import all ur bookmarks when installing