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Exhausted
Location: Northeastern US - please send help!
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Once zippy... now pokey
Hey TFPers,
Wondering if you can suggest what might be going on with Yoshi's PC. While it never was a speed demon, it did fine until a couple of days ago, when it began operating much, MUCH slower. Weirder still, programs which used to open up in smaller desktop windows (i.e. Bookworm, Bejeweled) now take over the screen and cannot be minimized. I've run Norton and the machine's clean. I've run Spybot and taken off every suspicious file. The only thing I can figure that might have caused this is her installation of AOL 9.0 - which I've removed and reverted her back to 7.0. (Yeah, I know... but she's had the address for years.) I'm stumped - and getting frustrated. Any ideas/suggestions? |
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Exhausted
Location: Northeastern US - please send help!
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Psycho
Location: In Games.
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Try another spyware searcher like AdAware too.
Try another brand of anti-virus to be safe too. What OS are you running? Could have picked up a trojan like Code Red or something.
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Junkie
Location: North Hollywood
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first determine if its a disk problem or a cpu/memory problem.
sissoft sandra will benchmark your system looking for problems, if it doesnt find any, then start looking at using the performance monitor tools in windows to determines whos hogging the system, or chewing up the ram etc. it might be file caches, or a rogue app. |
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Seeker of Beautiful Women
Location: north dakota
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i had similar problems. i got regseeker. free download.
easy to use for the most part. look in the startup items in this program and see what's loading. it may suprise you. mine ran faster after using it. hope it helps |
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Buffering.........
Location: Wisconsin...
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go into msconfig and see whats all starting up with the computer...and uncheck everything that isn't necessary...
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pokey, zippy |
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