Got this PC from a friend. Trying to make it serviceable for donation or a $20 Internet Laptop. WIN XP (SP3) Runs so slow its unbearable. 1.5gig ram seems fairly clean but may be tons of leftover viruses. I have attached the logs. Would love to fix it up and either donate it or give it away. Any help?
Much easier is to install XP from scratch.
That way all malware will be gone as well as other none needed things.
- Install XP (format the drive)
- Install all drivers for that system
- Install all available (security) updates
- Install avast
- Install (if needed/wanted) other applications.
- Change settings and such to your wishes
- Create a image of the drive
I agree but I dont have any of the cds to do that.
does the hardrive have a D partition called recovery?
Get a XP cd.
Perhaps neighbors, friends or something still have a XP cd.
Or have a look at sites like ebay.
“Advertise” at the local grocery store and ask for it perhaps.
Or download XP and create a CD.
It is legal to do so if the system has a sticker with the license key on it.
No recovery partition. I will try to find some old XP cds but then will I be able to get the updates to SP3 or has that been shut off by microsoft?
no, still available for download
http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=24
http://technet.microsoft.com/nb-no/windows/windows-xp-service-pack-3.aspx
OK I will try to find old CDs and hope all the older drivers are still available. Thanks
If needed:
http://downloads.ache.nl/everesthome220.exe
It is a small tool that identifies hardware in a system.
May be handy when looking for the correct drivers.
When I went to that link Avast said that is an outdated program and gave me a link to the new one. Thanks
This is still the free one, the new one is a paid one.
Yes it is a oldie, but it still works well especially on old(er) systems 
If you want I can put it in a zip file so that avast won’t bug you 
I went to where Avast sent me and it downloaded fine no charge. Thanks. My problem though seems to be in finding old windows XP cds. I may just continue to plug away at fixing this install myself. Thanks.
If you can’t find the cd’s, I will notify a expert that will analyze the log files and guide you.
Just let me know which way you want to go.
The clean installation or the removal one.
I havent been able to find any XP CDs without buying them on ebay so I have been plodding along cleaning things up. One issue I am having is I cannot run Combofix. It starts and hangs before it completes step 1. This happens in safe mode also. Any ideas?
Since this is not a critical PC and I am doing this just to make a serviceable PC to donate, please handle critical folks first. Thanks, Jim
I see several things that are not needed if you want to sell the system.
Realplayer
Drive Letter Access Component of Sonic Solutions
Pinger
MySpace Messenger
I suggest to remove them.
Reboot
Run Glary tools to cleanup the drive and registry with it
Reboot
Run Farbar again and attach a new log.
I deleted Sonic DLA, Realplayer, couldnt find pinger and MySpace so I disabled them at startup using Glary.
Ran Glary tools. Glary said my startup is real slow (1% are slower)
Here is the FRST log
Thanks, Jim
Looks to me only these need to be fixed with farbar:
BHO: No Name -> {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} -> No File
BHO: No Name -> {FDAD4DA1-61A2-4FD8-9C17-86F7AC245081} -> No File
Toolbar: HKCU - No Name - {2318C2B1-4965-11D4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - No File
DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab
DPF: {D4B68B83-8710-488B-A692-D74B50BA558E} http://ccfiles.creative.com/Web/softwareupdate/ocx/15113/CTPIDPDE.cab
DPF: {E705A591-DA3C-4228-B0D5-A356DBA42FBF} http://ccfiles.creative.com/Web/softwareupdate/su2/ocx/20015/CTSUEng.cab
DPF: {F6ACF75C-C32C-447B-9BEF-46B766368D29} http://ccfiles.creative.com/Web/softwareupdate/ocx/121022/CTPID.cab
Done… still real slow especially at startup. Takes 8 minutes to boot up. I will keep turning things off till I find it. Thanks for your help. Logs attached.