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I want to connect a laptop to a lan so that I can run antispyware program saved in another computer.How do I go through it.This machine is extremely slow and I did a disk clean up and closed most of the startup programs and is still slow,what could be the cause apart from spyware,virus and junk has pentium III inside.

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A safe, practical plan for : avoid exposing an unstable machine to a live LAN until personal files are backed up and the system is isolated. Network transfers can work, but offline approaches reduce the risk of spreading or strengthening an infection. and opened the right lines of thought; the points below expand into lower-risk, actionable options and diagnosis steps that do not rely on learning full networking under pressure.

Two reliable offline options: boot the laptop from a trusted rescue environment on removable media, or remove the laptop drive and scan it from a known-clean PC using a 2.5" drive-to-USB adapter or docking station. Bootable rescues let signature updates and full scans run without the infected OS active. Scanning the drive on a clean host lets mature antivirus/rootkit tools examine files directly. In both cases, autorun should be disabled on the clean host and backups should be taken first.

Check non-malware causes of slowness in parallel: run a memory tester like Memtest86+, inspect drive SMART data with a vendor tool or CrystalDiskInfo, run chkdsk /f and sfc /scannow from recovery if filesystem corruption is suspected, and verify cooling (clean fans, check for thermal throttling). On older mechanical drives, very low free space or a failing platter will produce severe lag even with no infection. Tools such as Process Explorer (from a clean environment) help identify runaway processes if the OS will boot.

If a networked transfer is necessary, perform it on an isolated switch or guest subnet and keep the infected machine off the main LAN. After offline cleaning and hardware checks, apply all OS updates and rerun full scans. If instability continues despite successful cleaning and verified hardware health, a full OS reinstall—after secure backups—is the most reliable resolution.

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I want to connect a laptop to a lan so that I can run antispyware program saved in another computer.How do I go through it.This machine is extremely slow and I did a disk clean up and closed most of the startup programs and is still slow,what could be the cause apart from spyware,virus and junk has pentium III inside.

JOSHUU- On the side of you laptop ,there sholud be 1 or 2 PCMCIA slots. You will need to insert a PCMCIA II LAN Card and connect an ethernet cable to the "other computer" holding the spyware. Windows on both units "shoul" indentify the hqardware and install the approprate drivers. Once installed each computer will "see" the other. Good Luck.
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You will also have to configure Microsoft networking on both machines to do this. If you haven't done it before and your machine is already infected, I strongly suggest that you try to get the tools you need burned onto a CD to use on the infected machine. Networking is complicated enough without trying to learn it under these circumstances and it may not work anyway because of the problem.

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Thanx guys .

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