Some days it is fine, but then other days it takes forever to load a page. I have done all the disk cleanups and defragmenting. I have an antivirus running. I have done the ctrl+alt+del, but not showing anything that would be running in the background other than the pages I am viewing. Is there anything else that I can do to speed it up.. preferrably for free.
And please put the answers in layman's terms... I am a little computer illerate at times..
Thanks for your answers in advance.

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Please follow these steps to a completely secure and clean computer, which is all for free! Remove all firewalls and anti-virus on your computer, as more than one of them causes unwanted conflicts on your computer. Note: It is perfectly fine to have more than one anti-spyware. To remove “Windows Firewall”, click Start>Control Panel>Security Center>Windows Firewall>Off (not recommended) Note: Don’t worry about that, these steps will relieve you of that worry. Now that’s done, remove your ant-virus by clicking Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs. (Wait for the list to be populated by all your programs on your computer.) Look for your anti-virus, then click “remove” after that follow the uninstall wizard to remove your anti-virus. Note: If you had a different firewall than “Windows Firewall” then just follow the way to remove your anti-virus, except look for your firewall instead of the anti-virus. (Make sure that the “Windows Firewall” is off also).
Security Programs:
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1.) AVG Anti-Virus
-http://www.download.com/3000-2239_4-10703202.html

2.) AVG Anti-Spyware
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=asf

3.) AVG Anti-Rootkit
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=arw

4.) Spybot Search&Destroy
-http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/1043809773/1

5.) a-squared Free
-http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

6.) Ad-Aware 2007 Free
-http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2007-Free/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

7.) Windows Defender
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displayLang=en&hash=OZ12x%2facDQZcX14 rp6O9q9QOmDfEK%2bmKGAs04c76ST9TPXNC57za3qarG0Mx1em mFlaOph74OsG9FiJQt2AF5Q%3d%3d

8.) Comodo Firewall
- http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

Computer Clean Up & Tune Up Programs:
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1.) CCleaner
- http://ccleaner.com/download/downloadpage.aspx?1

2.) Advanced WindowsCare Personal
- http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare-Personal/3000-2086-10407614.html?part=dl-AdvancedW&subj=dl&tag=button

3.) IObit SmartDefrag
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5318&file=10&evp=3907499a9d91d6 d4d70477dfa7628159

4.) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
- http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dleusingregistry.html

5.) Registry Distiller
- http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller/index.html

6.) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard
- http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

Now that you have completed downloading these programs, restart your computer twice. (This ensures that all or most of the programs have been properly installed on your computer). After restarting your computer twice, update every single program, this is to be done as much as possible. Now that you have updated all the programs reboot into “Safe Mode” (This will make a nice, deep, clean scan on your computer with your new programs)-Turn off your computer>Turn on your computer>immediately hold on “F8”. This brings you to the menu to go to “Safe Mode”. Use your arrow keys and select “Safe Mode” Then log in. Congratulations, you have logged into “Safe Mode” Now that you are in “Safe Mode” (Run a full scan on every program when told to.) Run a FULL SCAN on AVG anti-spyware, AVG anti-virus, and AVG anti-rootkit at the same time. After these programs have finished, delete all found infections. Now run a FULL SCAN
on A-Squared Free, AdAware 2007 Free, and Spybot Search&Destroy at the same time so nothing can slip through. Note: There is not a Full Scan option on Spybot Search&Detstroy. If these programs have found anything, simply delete whatever they have found. Finally run a FULL SCAN with Windows Defender. It’s kind of hard to find out how to do a full scan on Windows Defender, so here’s how. On the top you can see “scan”, then right next to it, is a diagonal line, right next to that is an arrow, click on it and choose full scan. Windows should not find anything by now so if it hasn’t, congratulations your computer has been disinfected of viruses, spyware, and much more, but we are not done yet. Its time to clean up, so now run each of the clean up & tune up programs one by one. They should find some stuff so if they do then simply fix the problems by clicking fix or repair. Note: “Fix” or “Repair” are the options of most of the clean up & tune up programs. Congratulations your computer has been cleaned, disinfected, and tuned up. Also if you want to have an enjoyable internet browser, where you can go wherever you want, without having to worry about pop ups then, download these internet browsers which are listed by ranking.
1.) Safari- http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
2.) Mozilla- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.6&os=win&lang=en-US
3.) Opera- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=29650&thanks=true&sub=true
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