I don't know what happened, all the sudden while my daughter was in the middle of being on the internet website called evergirl.com (kids games & talk like barbie.com) the computer hung up and got real sluggish. After she was able to close completely out of it I restarted the computer. It came on slowly and gave an error message, as I went to write it down, it blanked off (it said something about unable to open *some* local files and something about a *damaged* registry key. Then it opened to a desktop from like when we first got the computer, most my files are their but the shortcuts are gone off the desktop and mozilla asked if I wanted to import all my data from OE.
My dad installed some program on his computer, didn't like it, and uninstalled it. After that, his computer crashed and I haven't been able to get passed the screen with Windows XP Professional and the moving blue bar and then it freezes. Last Good Configuration doesn't work; it ends up at the same place and the blue bar stops also. I System Restored it to the day before he installed the program; once again, the blue bar stops moving.Could this be a hardware issue? Virus (unlikely)?
Ever since I installed Webroots SpySweeper, my computer has been running much slower than usual - even after I uninstalled the program and all its remanents from my registry. The worst part however, is media. Ever since then, any audio and video does not play properly on the computer - it just lags and plays very choppily.My computer has tested free of any spyware/adware/malware, as well as any viruses. Almost nothing is set to start up with my computer, and the registry is cleaned. As well, Opera is the only web browser I ever use, and I do not have my windows set to automatic update.
I noticed some irregular occurences on my system, starting off with “My Computer” opening the same folder at startup (C:program files ero I think) and taking a LOT longer to shutdown/restart than normal (anywhere between 5 & 15mins to shutdown). Occasionally ckdisk would run at boot and after analysing would go through the process of recovering orphaned files (on both C: and F:
I need to use the "control-alt-delete" to end a program that is hung-up and not responding and I then get the dialog box asking me if I want to send a message to Microsoft telling them about the problem. First of all, is there really any reason to send this message, and if not, how can I prevent this dialog box from showing up again?
I've been running my XP SP3 machine all merrily along, with three internal HD's (two large partitioned) and yesterday my Start - Restart hung on Windows Is Shutting Down. I did a hard restart, ran Start - Shutdown successfully, after startup tried Start - Restart again and got same hang. So, hard reboot, Start - Shutdown...OK, Startup, Start - Restart worked! Shut down machine for the night, powered on this morning, then Start - Restart... same hang. I remember in W95SE the problem with large drives, but I've never seen that in XP.
So, what did I do new? Installed ProShow Gold software, which required disabling my CD RW drive to find my CD/DVD RW drive correctly. The only other funny thing I see is burning a disk of JPEG's either in NERO or Picasa, then putting the disc back in the CD/DVD drive and not being able to read it. I get "wrong function", the eject button doesn't work, so have to eject from Explorer. Other computers read it fine. When I installed NERO the CD DVD RW drive was made INCD auto-formatable, so that screen pops up whenever a blank is inserted. I just dismiss it. But this symptom looks like XP thinks the disk I burned was written in MRW format, not just ISO. Also, Explorer changes the My Computer icon for the drive from CD/DVD to just CD when the newly burned DVD is inserted - weird.
I have Windows XP on a Compaq laptop. When I turn it on, it attempts to boot up. It starts out normally, flashing the Compaq logo, then the Microsoft logo but seems to get hung up there and won't continue. The MS logo stays on the screen. There are no error messages. Is this a virus?If it is, how do I remove a virus if I can't log on?
I am having trouble repairing windows it never finished the initial repair, it got to 9 minutes left and hung - and when I tried to restart another repair, the bootable xp disk never gave the option to repair again. The computer has XP sp1 on it and I have tried a SP1 XP and SP2 XP disks on it.
The computer has sluggish and aggravating moments. Frequently, Internet Explorer Windows get hung-up, and will not close or open. Tabs get stuck and won't change. Boot-up time seems slow. Connection tests indicate speed is optimal, but IE remains slow and clunky. A HJT scan has been performed. I may correct any issues. Also, if there is any fat to be trimmed, oo.
My computer has been sluggish here lately. I have Ad-Aware, Asquared, Spyware Blaster, Spybot and just recently added AimFix and CCleaner (CCleaner seemed to clean a lot of junk out this morning). So can you help me with HJT Log if you think that will help and do you reccommend the above, cleaner, sweepers, scanners?
My XP Pro HD has been performing very sluggishly lately. Takes forever for apps to load, and there is almost freezing between switching between programs sometimes.
Windows Explorer has about a two to five second delay (can work with other programs during delay, but can't open start menu or do other explorer functions) when navigating through folders and doing some context menu functions, such as deleting, cut & pasting, etc.Windows Explorer runs at full speed when creating new folders and files through context menus and while navigating through windows in the mini navigation windows, such as the window that opens when you wish to open a file with a program such as WinAmp.Recent actions before condition was noticed.I was trying to hook up to the net through the hotel's LAN drop with an ethernet cable. I finally get Windows to correctly detect the DNS server and begin surfing and attempting to play Warcraft III online. I play a horribly laggy game and then quit out and reboot my computer.I scan for viruses and find none, though I get a read error about some windows/system/ntos.something or what not. I decide to find some XP performance tweaking tools and found a recommendation for Ashampoo WinOptimizer and XP Smoker. I try both and neither fix the problem, but they cleaned out all my cookies I noticed. I uninstalled Ashampoo, but keep XP Smoker.
My friend has a dell demension desktop that is running way slower than it should. I can't figure out why. Her CPU is a P4 2.66 GHz; with 1.25GB PC2700 RAM; 80G HDD (using 25%); The only hard ware installed is a printer, high speed modem, and ipod. I updated the drivers for those, and still no help. I also went through add/remove programs and got rid of those that she will never use, I did not remove any system critical programs, I'm an advanced user so I know what not to delete. I also went into the system tools and stopped some services for running auto on system boot. Like her Ipod, I set to manual, Printer (not spoolsvc) I set to manual, etc. I also ran a defrag on the HDD. Still, not much difference.
I'm runnin XP Pro with a P4 2.6 ghz processor overclocked to 3.2 ghz. I have 2 IDE hard drives with my main drive as master with 3 partitions and my slave drive as cable select with 2 partitions. Any time I use explorer (not internet explorer, i'm talking about the normal windows OS) to access any of my volumes it takes a hell of a lot of time to show the files in the window. Usually, it takes about 30 seconds for the files to show, and during that 30 seconds, explorer.exe stops responding. What is my problem, and how do i fix it?? I've defragmented everything, but haven't screwed with my page file, if that has anything to do with the problem.
I have a new dell computer. the hard drive is 80 gigs, i have about 65 gigs free. recently the computer has become very sluggish and choppy. when i start it up the windows music which plays is now very choppy sounding. often when i start up programs an error message appears that says 'virtual memory too low, cannot complete operation' or some thing to that effect.
I'm about to try reinstalling XP because it's been sluggish for months already, so I want to see if this will help, since I suspect a Trojan or whatever.Anyway, the reinstall disc offers 2 options:
(1) Upgrade
(2) new reinstall
If I choose upgrade, would I risk that my system would remain with its present problems? Or should I rather choose new reinstall?
Recently installed StyleXP and applied one of those Vista Themes which changed the start menu and my desktop icons, however my pc started moving sluggish so I uninstalled it.
Everything went back to its original state except for my internet explorer 7 icon which remained as the icon from the theme (internet explorer 6 icon).
I tried uninstalling the reinstalling but this did not work
Windows XP is having some hangups.When logging on, using either my account/profile or my wife's, it takes 5-8 minutes for the system to be ready to use. I imagine some of the problem is that there are too many programs operating, but I'm not sure how to alleviate that problem.Second, the hardware wizard keeps appearing, yet there is no new device connected to the computer.
I did a google search for this and i get microsoft telling me that windows xp requires 1.5g of space to install. i have it on a 5g drive, and it has bloated itself beyond proper functioning. Is 10g enough or should i go to 50g? I do not install program files on this drive. or my documents. or my images. or anything else that i can possibly put somewhere else.
I have a Desktop which has Windows XP installed. I have some Favourites music DVD`s saved in Real Players Favourites Section,but I am having great difficulty in burning them on to a CD. I have been using Nero to burn other things in the past, but I can not find 'Real Player Favourites' using Nero`s 'Add' Section.
I have a real XP Home cd key thats really old, and I finally managed to find a real XP home (SP2) disk. i never got one with my old computer. now i just reformatted my harddrive and am trying to install it. however, the computer wont let me pass the part where i enter the key. it keeps on saying that the key is invalid
i use firefox and i hover over a video in Internet, and a button used to appear saying "download this video" with the real logo. now the button doesn't show up. i'm only interested in downloading legal, non-copyrighted stuff, of course.
I have searched the internet everywhere and could not find any place that had a real comparison of Teamspeak and Ventrilo. I'm not talking about people just saying "oh I like x better". You can find millions of that online. What I'm talking about is someone doing real tests of cpu usage, bandwidth, latency, and overall quality of the sound. I do not have the tools to do such a test, but I bet the guys at TG do. What would be MOST useful are having various catagories. These catagories will be sorted by cpu usage, and bandwidth. For example: Compare the sound quality between TS and Vent when the cpu usage is exactly (or as close to) 1%, 3%, 5%. (this would be achieved by changing the sound quality until the cpu usage is these %). And then you could use sound capture for both to compare the quality.A similar test will be used to compare bandwidth vs quality. For example: set TS and Vent to use 1kb/s, 5kb/s, 10 kb/s, etc. and compare quality (with the bandwidth as close to each other as possible).
I have Windows XP Home Edition, 1 user account as an admin. When I push control+alt+del all at once, the task manager flashes up real fast, then closes. When I go to start> run, and type taskmgr.exe, nothing happens. Anyone know what this is? Also, on a separate issue, when I go to microsoft updates, and i click install to download SP2, it says failed,
My wife's computer got real slow. She says it happened the same time asWindows XP told her to add a Search Desktop feature. Is this a realWindows program? If so, what is the best way to remove it and everythingit has indexed
I am having a problem with my computer.When I try to close applications like internet browser, real player, dxdiag there comes a blue screen and it says something about memory dump error. It says beginning to dump and so on. This started happening aftr the installation of Sp2 where as before there were no service packs installed.
