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What would be a reasonable price to fix my computer?

I am thinking of taking my computer to a shop. There is one here in town that is highly recommended, but the thing is that I know very little about computers.

Many of the things that I do know I have learned from many of you and your great advice and for that a BIG "THANK YOU."

This are some things that I need done on it

Sound Card ( I accidentally deleted it.)

Expand Memory (Every time I download something it goes really slow).

Remove virus, trojans, adware, spyware and malware (Thanks to my husband and friend that love to see XXX on the computer.)

Security suite, I currently have Mcafee but it does a poor job with the adware, spyware.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the info that I have for my computer.

CPU: AMD Sempron 1666MHz

Motherboard: ASUS A7V400-mx

Memory: 512 MB of Spectek PC2700

Hard Drive: Samsung 80.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS

Operating System: Windows XP Pro

Sorry if I don't know many of the terminology.

You can fix all this yourself

just learn how

do this to find your sound card driver
Update Drivers
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The problem is, that your description is not accurate enough to get good results in Google.. To get around this we hi-light the proper description and numbers of the device and copy it. Then paste it into Google with the word driver.

:To find out what is in you computer do this

I find the google search are successful using the text and part numbers displayed in these results.
XP
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click - start - help and support
type in the word "processor" in the search

in the results you can find out the hardware and what Microsoft software you have.
You can print it as well.

Hi-light the card name and model etc and press control +c to copy it.

Go to Google and paste it in and add the word driver.

In the results choose one looks like the manufacturer, download the latest driver to your desktop

If its an exe file double click it to install it.

If its driver dll or cab file extension
click empty desktop >hit F1 key >type in device manager
open device manager >expand the device >right click and update driver.
Point the wizard to your file.

Do this to make your computer run faster
From my notes
Also while your computer is in good nick you should download these programs as a Save, then install from that file. All these programs do different stuff, the end result is your computer runs a lot better. Use all of them.

Clean Up Computer
CCleaner (about 10 minutes to install and run)
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google ccleaner and install it.from filehippo While it installs just untick the boxes as some you dont want.

run the cleaner in windows/applications but dont tick the bottom 11 boxes in the Windows Tab.
run the registry cleaner as well, when it asks to back up the registry , allow it to do it, then clean the registry. You may have to clean the registry a few times, but you do not need to save it each time.

Superantispyware (1 hour)
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http://www.superantispyware.com

Has a stop homepage from being altered which is good
Can reset windows defaults in various parts

Download and run superantispyware.
Install it and set the preferences to monitor your home page.
Set up tick boxes that you want in the other tabs as you require.
You don’t need to run it at startup unless you want the antispyware protection 24/7.

Note Superantispyware has powerful reset tools that will set stuff back to windows defaults.
To use these tools click preferences >repairs. This may be handy to reset IE URLS if you have annoying pop ups.
Superantispyware is a good program and remember to update it before scanning. A scan may take 45mins.Just run a scan for the first attack.

Spybot – Search and Destroy (1 hour)
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Download spybot search and destroy. Through its immunize page and link to javacools spyblaster, spybot can manage activex problems which is extremely difficult for antispyware programs to find. Also just run the scan for first attack.

http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html

MalwareBytes (1 hour)
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http://www.malwarebytes.org

This is a neat little program to scan for annoying pop ups and adverts.

Windows Live Onecare (2-3 hours)
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Onecare safety scan fixes registry and finds temp files that nothing else seems to find.
Choose the Beta Edition link for vista users.
It does registry, spyware , virus , disk clean up and defrag
XP Users http://onecare.live.com/site/en-ca/defau...
Vista Users

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-ca/center/whatsnew.htm

Run the full safety scanner, it takes a few seconds to install the scanning files but when you start the scan, it takes 2 hours or more. Let it load the scanning tools, then start the Safety Scan. So once it starts to load the safety scans' x file of x , you can leave the computer and go to bed etc.

Then at the end of the scan it asks you to set it running full time.
Think twice about setting it to run in the background as it could be another thing to slow you down. However, it may be worth while if you have no other security programs running.

Now you should be flying and Onecare has even set up a new system restore point for you.
Note onecare does other stuff as well. Click on the menus on the LHS column., but all of this is done if you click Safety Scan.
add onecare to your favourites

Set up IE7 so it runs efficiently.
IE7 (2 minutes)
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Over time IE7 seems to set its own (or programs do) tick boxes in the advance tab.
In IE7 Tools >Internet Options >Advance Tab
Click Restore advance settings defaults button.
Then scroll the listings down to near the bottom and:
1. Tick empty temp files when browser closes (this empties the cache, which if not empty, will stop you from going online).
2. Bullet disable phishing filter (optional. Leave it on if you want that type of protection, usually for financial data lik