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All of sudden my desktop icons are taking about 2 minutes too load after windows starts. Can anybody help me. I ran malwarebytes, norton antivirus, no adware, xofspy, spyware doctor, cleaned all spyware and adware off the system; cleaned up start up programs from msconfig, defrag the HD, I've done … | |
Re: what are you running vista or xp | |
Re: I must say, I use and recommend this on a daily basis, all my clients are using it and happy as I am. No Virus at all, optimized to the top and running nice and smooth. Windows XP Pro SP-3, Vista y Win 7 Antivirus: Microsoft essentials Virus cleaner: ComBofix, … | |
I would think I'm nuts for trying this, But I have a Toshiba U205-S5002 Laptop, 320GB HDDR, 3GB/4GB ready Boost, Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.6GHZ ,256mb video, SSE,SSE2,SSE3, and guess what, I feel like having Windows XP, Win 7, Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. This is the situation, Had win … | |
Re: hey take a picture of it, with the print/screen key and save in mspaint as a jpg, then go to image shack ([url]http://imageshack.us/[/url]) and post it her so we can see it, and maybe we can help u better. | |
Re: Just go to google and search for this: combofix, and becareful, only download it from bleeping computer; run this tool , read the instructions first on the website, it does miracles for me, trust me, I fix computers on the side. [url]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/[/url] | |
Re: This error (explorer.exe-Application error) especially when you try to open control panel, means virus, download, malwarebytes free, iobit360 free, and microsoft essentials, it will be better if you can download combofix and run it. and only download it from this site. [url]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix[/url] please read everything first before use. iMike | |
Re: More likely is your hard drive, the bios is not recognizing the hard drive. What you should do is to take the hard drive out, put it on a external case, install hard disk sentinel(google it) and see the conditions of it, and depending on the outcome, you should be … | |
Re: check out thread "xp,vista win 7 software that would do wonders" and look into Device Doctor to update all your drivers. or go here land look for a script that wil describe your problem and how to fix it. [url]http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm[/url] | |
Re: What I would do in your case, is take the hard drive out, and put it as a slave in anotehr machine running vista, then do a scan for viruses, then do a temp folder clean up, then do a scanddisk to repair errors and then a defrag, then put … | |
![]() | Re: Is it a brand name PC, Like Compaq, HP , Toshiba, Dell or so, then they usually use an extra partition to do a recovery console and it varies the size that they use for the recovery. ![]() |
I was thinking about all the amazing things that people go thru to get their pc and laptops fixed so they can run smooth. So I came up with the Idea of something like, maybe it'll be nice if people could post their favorite software that did wonders for them. … | |
Re: ok with my experience fixing hp laptops,"a disk read error occured. press ctr+alt_del to restart". this error is crucial, you have to do one thing, check hard drive compartment, make sure the hard drive is not loose and pluged in tight. if you could test the drive on another computer … | |
Re: Ok to find out if your motherboard will handle a 64bit OS, do this, go to this site and download cpuz it's a free utility that will tell all your motherboard specs and your computer for that matter. [url]http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php[/url] also go to Device Doctor site that way you will get … | |
Re: Hey nice, It's true what you just said, it's amazing the efforts people go to solve problems. Well here is a good program for the future, people it's a program I cannot live without, and even nicer, it's free, gratis. Device Doctor, you'll be surprise of what it can do. … | |
Re: so how was it solve, could you at least say. or it worked by just dumping avg | |
Re: if its ownership problem, google winbubble, see what it would do, nice free software for unlocking folders. | |
Re: First try another monitor, preferably an LCD, and check the manual of the motherboard, it may not support the amount of memory you installed; hey nothing personally but it's an eMachine. it may only support op to 1.2 gb. and besides make sure that the memory you installed is also … | |
I bet nobody will be able to help, guaranteed. Here is my situation:, My wife has an averatec 4100 series laptop(discontinued)but it's running fine, no troubles what so ever, fast and efficient. Updated all the driver thru manufacturers(cause Averatec inc. are not given support what so ever, but The Laptop … | |
Re: physical memory dump. For my experience on fixing computers with this blue screen message, I must say, change the memory, done with, buy a new one, or if you can get a used one to try first. or maybe, take a mogul pencil, and take the memory out carefully and … | |
Re: Hope this wil be of any help. Í´ve fixed a lot of computers with the same problem. First if you have another computer available or even a laptop, take the hard drive out of the computer having the problem, place the hard drive as a slave on the other computer;install … | |
I have a Dell Laptop M1330, all of sudden the wifi stopped working, so ran all kind of aniviruses, cleaned 5 viruses, good, now I can´t connect via wifi, but can connect via Lan; so I figured that after deleting those viruse, I was left with corrupted files. I uninstalled … | |
Re: If you still can´t see hidden files and folder, you are infected. Solution:download smart virus remover([url]http://www.technize.com/download/6)run[/url] the first option (Delete autorun inf. files)then the third option,(also in safe mode).then the second option(restore windows defaul settings) this should solve your problem. Then after that download Malwarebytes.org the free version to finish … | |
I bought this laptop from a friend of a friend about six month ago, it was runnig good, but some how got corrupted and I thought that by formating the hard drive would help. My friend gave me the system password and the hard drive password but forgot to give … | |
I have American Greetings "CreateACard" Platinum 8, My question is: There is three cd's for the installation, I would like to compile three cd's into one DVD, so I can insert on DVD to install instead of three. Cause for some reason after I formatted the HD and installed service … | |
Re: Before you do anything else, try system restore, always works for me. | |
Re: How about your monitor, you said after shutting off, meaning for a while being off maybe nigth befor. Maybe the monitor needs to warmup in order to start working properly. I'm just sayind this cause you said that it runs fast and normal. Also run this utlity have done wonders … | |
Re: use malwarebytes, no adware, but the best way to get rid off it is to run your hard drive as a slave in another computer and have it scan with malwarebyte or any other good antivirus. Another good one also is spyware doctor. and then use Glary Utilities .Also run … | |
Re: yo may want to check your hard drives with[B][U] Hard disk sentinel[/U][/B], in another computer, to see if they still good for booting. | |
Re: Dear GAZH13, Hi you doing, I don't want to get your hopes down, I had similar problems like that, but before anything let me ask you this, it will freeze right after you boot up the pc, it will make like it if is going to start but don't go … | |
Re: and that means..., you won the lottery then. | |
Re: What you should do is get a program that could tell you the conditions of the drive, meaning if it's about to fail or stop working, I would think wndows 98 cannot predict when i drive is about to fail, it just dies and thats it. Xp would not read … | |
Re: I would suggest this, check your memory. shut the laptop down, and with a pencil eraser, clean the memory(like erasing only the gold part) I had the same problem and fixed it like that. let us know if it worked. | |
Re: i would say is and easy one, since i have an asus board myself P5GD2 DELUXE WITH A 3.6GHZ HT INTEL CPU WITH 3GB OF MEMORY TOO, ATI VIDEO CARD, I HAVE THIS COMPUTER SINCE 2005, AND I WAS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM EVERY TIME I would run a game, … | |
Here is my situation, every time I open Office word 2007 and work on it, in a matter of few seconds a get an error and it says ¨office word had stop working and needs to close¨ and then shuts down. same thing happens with excel 2007. I have a … | |
Re: if this could be of any help, go to [url]http://technize.com/download/6[/url] and download this file, is smart virus remover, great for usb and even windows itself, Best tool ever to remove auto run viruses from computer and usb. also has an option to restore your usb to factory settings or to … | |
My daugthers Pc has a 20gb hard drive, and windows sent a message, hard drive running out of space, used the clean up utility to gain space. so I did, but only got back a few hundreds mb, and still low on space. used ccleaner and SBMAV CLEANER too; helped … |
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