When I want to get on my computer, I jiggle my mouse, hit enter and nothing happens. It takes about 10 minutes for it to fire up. This never used to happen. Has been doing this about a month now. Do you know what the problem is? Please explain clearly to me. I am not a computer geek. Thank you.
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When I want to get on my computer, I jiggle my mouse, hit enter and nothing happens. It takes about 10 minutes for it to fire up. This never used to happen. Has been doing this about a month now. Do you know what the problem is? Please explain clearly to me. I am not a computer geek. Thank you.
assume you mean you are using hibernation and having problems getting it to resume from hibernation ,i was never a big fan of how well it didn't work so stopped using it yrs ago .this might help certainly wont hurt
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How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer
Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
Click Properties, and then click Tools.
Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
Use one of the following procedures:
To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click Start.
To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click Start.
To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?
Click Yes to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.
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