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Clearing up an old Win XP machine for a friend (one of the first 1.2 GHz processors with a Win 98SE upgrade to XP - drive is still in FAT32 ), and found that there were two versions of Mozilla, 2.0.0.2 and 2.0.0.3. in the directory
Norton was the first to go, as it had ignored some basic spyware inside the unit, and two trojans. Slight improvement in speed, but not what I was expecting.
Added the Avast, Lavasoft and Zone Alarm group to allow basic safe access to the Internet before proceeding
Stupidly removed the older version of Mozilla before checking, and - hey presto - no browser. Added IE 7 from the Microsoft website and then updated Windows to SP2.
Machine still runs very slow despite cleaning all useless files and cache, checking for other Spyware and virus/trojans. It has a very long start up process, some five minutes before operation.
What is the latest version of Firefox for this type of machine, and does anyone know if there is a programme that can identify where the machine is slowed down.
Would converting FAT32 to NTFS be
1) Feasible, and
2) likely to speed things up ?
Cheers
Norton was the first to go, as it had ignored some basic spyware inside the unit, and two trojans. Slight improvement in speed, but not what I was expecting.
Added the Avast, Lavasoft and Zone Alarm group to allow basic safe access to the Internet before proceeding
Stupidly removed the older version of Mozilla before checking, and - hey presto - no browser. Added IE 7 from the Microsoft website and then updated Windows to SP2.
Machine still runs very slow despite cleaning all useless files and cache, checking for other Spyware and virus/trojans. It has a very long start up process, some five minutes before operation.
What is the latest version of Firefox for this type of machine, and does anyone know if there is a programme that can identify where the machine is slowed down.
Would converting FAT32 to NTFS be
1) Feasible, and
2) likely to speed things up ?
Cheers