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Defragging in XP

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by cherib43

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A couple of weeks ago, my computer came up with a false security alert, I knew right away it was a virus. I found w32.spybot.worm and after several attempts at removing it, I gave up. I repartitioned my hard drive and reformatted, and reinstalled. My problem is my computer has slowed down since the virus. Now it will not defrag, it analyzes and when finished I choose defrag and it just sits there. I have PC Tools spyware doctor running and just downloaded malwarebytes, it is scanning and says there are no threats. Can someone help?

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by wizard-09

Disable system restore, restart the machine in safe mode and rescan the system i am 100 % sure it will find something.

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