OKay, here’s an interesting thing I figure some of you tech-heads can answer for me.
My desktop, which I’ll adcmit is cluttered beyond cluttered, seems to be chugging lately. I just picked up this anti-spyware/anti virus thing called stopsign, which found and deleted a ton of stuff. But,… when I close out a window, it doesn’t just click shut, it slowly dissolves from top to bottom (it’s been doign this for a while now). I tried defragging the hard drive (what every non tech person does when they don’t know what to do), but was told that I didn’t need to.
Why does this happen?
Thanks in advance folks (I’m expecting most people to know more than I do about comps -lol)
Go ahead and defrag the hardware anyways. Another idea that comes to mind is to click start → run → and type msconfig. Click ok and then you’ll see the System Configuration Utility. Click on the starup tab and uncheck the useless programs that you think are not important. Be careful what you uncheck! Things such as AOLDial, NeroCheck, things like that Itunes; you can uncheck.
Another idea maybe is to run another spyware/ virus software. I think you might have a virus.
Remove things from you desktop that you do not use.
One thing to keep in mind that, sadly, not all spyware programs will pick up all spyware. It’s hit and miss.
These days, it’s rogue programs/spyware that cause an otherwise healthy machine to behave otherwise.
Some things to check:
free disk space
the paging file, and its location (this is called virtual memory, and depending on your physical drives/partitions, you can optimize it.
resident applications - the system tray, located in your bottom right hand corner (assuming you’re using Windoze) - is there a ton of little icons? Most of them aren’t needed and consume resources
The window ‘dissolving’ thing you mention is pretty indicitive of a lack of resources. These things, plus removal of spyware, will get your machine back and ready to surf pr0n in no time, good sir.
Thanks guys,… I ran my new stopsign thing,and DLed and ran the cleaner. Then, as I was looking at running the msconfig, my computer logged itself off without my doing anything… I’m wondering if I should just pay some 15 year old kid $50 and say ‘just make it work better!’ -lol
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
zero porn surfed on this laptop this week. its all been on my home computer. lol
i have been deleteing a pile of stuff etc, so its probably a lot of trace files.
your idea may work, but what about all your pics, music, documents. etc.
id disagree that its easier than trying to fix the problem aswell. little bit of know hoe and its quicker id say.[/quote]
It depends on how you store your data - all my movies/music/programs are stored on an external drive.
I keep temp files on a 20g partition on my laptop, so backing up is simply favourites & emails. A reload take a few hours but the machine is guaranteed to work great again for a long time.
It may not be ideal, but it definitely works.
FYI, I use either Kaspersky or NOD32, no standalone spyware software and I NEVER have virus or spyware problems.
thats what i like about my laptop. i have 2 hard drives for some reason. so all my programs and OS are on one drive and all my music, videos, photos ec are on the other one. ive had to reformat once. once for fucking about like a dick with some trojan software called subseven. it worked but also messed up my comp. this is when i found out than i only had to reformat one drive. pretty awesome.
i agree it defo works. but id assume stuart hasnt got a partition or an external drive. so it would awfully laborous to back up etc.
ive never had a problem after installing comodo firewall. its pretty epic. before i was just using the windows one and it was letting all sorts in.
@hanley. i just defraged a 100GB drive and it took 15 mins. last defrag was 4 weeks ago for this drive.
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
thats what i like about my laptop. i have 2 hard drives for some reason. so all my programs and OS are on one drive and all my music, videos, photos ec are on the other one. ive had to reformat once. once for fucking about like a dick with some trojan software called subseven. it worked but also messed up my comp. this is when i found out than i only had to reformat one drive. pretty awesome.
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Are you still having problems? The best thing you could do would be to reload it, but if you don’t want to, here’s some suggestions.
Uninstall all but ‘1’ anti-virus program, or they will mess with each other. CCleaner is good.
Go into Add/Remove programs and manually uninstall all the crap you don’t need/things you don’t remember installing/toolbars.
Download jv16 PowerTools Free Download - jv16 PowerTools ‘Reg Supreme’, it’s free for 30 days. Run it in DEEP MODE, once it’s finished, highlight everything it finds and click the FIX button at the bottom.
If your machine is running better, you’re welcome. I doubt it will be. If it is still running horribly slow, close every program, including the little ones in the tray on the bottom right. Then, open Task Manager “Ctrl+Alt+Delete” and see what’s still running under the processes tab. If you can’t decipher it, post a screenshot of what it says.
Do you get random pop ups? Ads on your desktop? Or is everything just slow?
