Yes..This is one of those informative posts..
Your computer could be running slow because of viruses and other malware. Even if you think you don't have any. No program is perfect at everything, so just because you have(or don't have!) an antivirus program(a.k.a. AV program) doesn't mean you don't have malware. On my older PC, I have McAfee installed. It was up-to-date and all that, and I ran a full system scan, and McAfee came up with nothing. I used Stopzilla to do another full system scan, and it only found 14 threats. Bullguard only found 6 threats in a full scan that I canceled after 40 minutes. I decided to look on the web for a program to remove spyware and all that..
Why was I doing all the AV scans? It is because this 'professional'computer technician(she was remotely using my PC at the time..) installed this program and only did an AV scan on it, and it came up with 12 threats. She then said that they are critical threats and highly integrated into the system, even though she didn't even PEEP at what the threats were. SO there's the backstory. Back to what I was saying...
I found a program called SUPERAntiSpyware on CNET. After running a quick scan with it, it came up with 700 or so threats. And the best part(not saying having 700 malware is good..)? There is a free version of the program, so I was able to let it remove those threats. Most of the threats were small (although sometimes it did come up with a few critical ones!) like adware and spyware cookies. If your computer is so slow as to not be able to even RUN a quick scan, they have a checkbox option for highly infected computers(it is called 'Rescue Scan') just so you would be able to make a scan happen.
You can download it directly from the SUPERAntiSpyware website here: http://superantispyware.com/
You can read what CNET has to say about it here: http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html
Afterwards, you can optimize your PC using Advanced SystemCare, which can be downloaded from the Iobit website here: http://www.iobit.com/
Read what CNET thinks of Advanced SystemCare: http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare/3000-2086_4-10407614.html
Hope this helped. (:
~Jeff~
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