re: previous date/restore point Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (23820 messages posted) You should actually do something else first, open the Task Manager and look at your cpu utilization when nothing else is running. It should be a very low number. Observe if any process has a high % (excluding System Idle). On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:11 am, ernie wrote: >I am working with an older Gateway laptop that has Windows XP. The computer is >extremely slow and sluggish - however, no viruses or malware, hard drive has been >defragged, temp int files cleaned up, etc. I loaded Avira virus protection since >the Norton on the computer is not up to date; however, now it takes forever to load, >open a program, get on the internet, etc. because i think of the interference that >I believe that happens because of the Norton program. Anyway, I want to go back >to a previous date when the computer was much less sluggish (like last weekend) but >want to make sure I do it correctly. Exactly where do I find this? Safe mode? >Thanks for your help! Written in response to: previous date/restore point (ernie: Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:11 am) Responses to this message: re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Friday, September 4, 2009 at 8:07 am) All messages in this thread [show all] previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 7:11 am) re: previous date/restore point (Ricer46: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 7:53 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 8:07 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 10:33 am) re: previous date/restore point (normanw: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 11:41 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 12:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum