My P.C's fucked - any solutions?
Byrnzie
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No, not my political correctness (that's beyond repair), my computer. It's been running really slow for about a week. I don't think I've got a virus as I've run AV Personal, Registry Mechanic, Adaware and Crap Cleaner and nothing's showing.
I think there may be something wrong with the hardware - perhaps the fan. Although it started slowing up around the same time I uploaded the New Service pack 2 for Vista.
I also don't have many items firing up on startup. Just a couple.
Any ideas?
I think there may be something wrong with the hardware - perhaps the fan. Although it started slowing up around the same time I uploaded the New Service pack 2 for Vista.
I also don't have many items firing up on startup. Just a couple.
Any ideas?
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Try Spybot Search and Destroy.
Hum.. These things are hard to tell really without actually being there. You have run spyware cleaners not any virus scanners. Still virus' are made to target antivirus so it may be hiding from it. Also not every virus is able to be picked up and scanned and treated.
Also less things on start up, not sure why that is, unless someone went into msconfig and disabled a bunch of stuff, dont know what upgrading service packs does but didn't think it got rid of things ons start up. As long as you got your AV and Firewall on start up its all good, no need to have 999 million things slowing your boot up.
IF there was an issue with your fan, your pc would be very very hot, and if its your cpu fan well your cpu would have fried already. Fans also slow down if your pc is cool so yeah maybe you want to get SpeedFan to check your temperatures.
Worst comes to worse, could just do a format.
Cheers, I'll give Spybot a go. My laptop's not too hot. Just a tad. Maybe the fan needs a clean though?
It's a mystery.
Nah, I don't like them. A big plastic bubble on my desk doesn't appeal to me.
Plus I've not had any problems with Windows in about 5 years.
If you've a hardware problem you may have to get something new. The best way we solved the problem on the home crap PC was to copy everything important to an external drive and reformatted the hard drive. This solved all the problems. If yours is still running badly afterwards then it's probably hardware.
The wankers that send out viruses concentrate on PCs as it's a bigger market. I've never had a virus problem on my Macs. I just run Norton on them. May be worth thinking about as the new Mac system software is running in a similar way to Windows and is easy to use.
Good luck!
I'll try that if all else fails.
How do you reformat Vista?
And I don't have any Vista installation cd's.
Edit: I've gone into 'Computer Management' and it shows that my C and D drives are healthy.
Go to the site of the maker (may be awkward if the PC is fucked) and search on there. Most of the makers have a helpline number or online support. Try searching for "reformatting hard drives" etc on Google. There are a number of forums full of questions.
Let me know the make and I'll see if I can find out for you. I've got a few friends who are PC wizz kids.
Make sure it's unplugged, open the side panel, take a can of compressed air and blow out all of the dust bunnies in it. Then reseat the RAM and other connections. Take a look at the fan and look for scorching or heat disfigurement on the boards. Power it back up. Did any of this make a difference?
Take a look at your Hard Drive properties. How full is it? If your Hard Drive is above 50% full you're going to start seeing serious performance issues. Get an external hard drive, move everything (documents, music, pictures, movies, etc...) to the External Hard Drive and delete it off of your Internal Hard Drive. Does this make any difference?
If not, I hate to say it, but I agree with the clean reinstall suggestions. I never regret how smoothly/quickly a computer runs after I do a reinstall. Just be sure to do the following:
1. Back up your web browser bookmarks and make a list of what plug-ins you use.
2. Back up any contact/ calendar info stored locally
3. Make a complete list of the software you use on a regular basis (or software which you have purchased) for which you need the install code. Most people don't keep record of these things and lose them when they wipe out their computer.
4. Back up all other data.
For a really thorough guide to a truly clean reinstall, try this website. The instructions are easy to follow and this guy's been at it for years. He provides great info.
http://www.tweakhound.com/vista/installguide.htm
http://www.tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/index.htm
Good luck. Come back and post what worked for you.
Agreed!!
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Thanks, I'll give it a go.
EV Manchester 2012
I hadn't created a restore point though. Doh!
Compaq - Hewlitt Packard.
I'm gonna wait until a bunch of stuff (Including some Pearl Jam boots) has finished downloading - it's taking forever - and then I'll have a go at fixing it.
I love OS X but I hated the price tag that came along with the Apple made PC.
Macs are just computers too that have the same problems Windows does. Actually if scammer and virus makers were smart they'd attack a virtually unprotected mac community because a majority of them are so stupid to realize that they have a PC as well. . .
Might I suggest Windows 7 to you?
I've only tinkered with it in a virtual machine and it was really fast even on my Macbook Pro
haha last week my friend said his imac was running like shit....I said "get a PC"