Same computer problem for years!

trademark604 · Oct 23, 2006

No matter what I do, I cant seem to fix my problem! I cant reformat my harddrive because my mom has lots of school stuff that she needs on there, and we have too many files to save to a floppy......Reformatting isnt an option here....I need to FIX it............so here's whats happening.............

First of all, my computer is much slower than most. Older, crappier computers run better than mine does. My computer is an Intel Celeron 1.69 GHz with 256 MB RAM. I load up two programs when my computer boots up, and it takes my computer about 4 minutes for it to fully load, before I can do anything. Even afterwards, everything is slow. I know this isnt normal, because many other computers I see, load up around 10 programs when they bootup, and it takes them under 10 seconds. Thats how I want my computer to run!

Secondly, my computer freezes...........A-L-O-T! You have no idea how much it freezes......Heres a few examples of when it freezes:

-When I come home from school, and the computer was on....
-When I try to install big files, like games....
-When I do nothing.......
-When me or my mom are doing school work.....
-When I am playing games...
-When I am trying to do more than one thing at once.....
-When I watch videos....
-When I try to run anti-virus scans....

Thats just a few of MANY examples.....

Im really not sure why it does this.....I guess reformatting IS an option, however I cant do this for another 6 months, since my mom disallows it in fear that it will ruin our computer (oh, the irony!). Please dont make my last resort to wait half a year for a good computer!!!!!!!...............anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks,
Tyler.

DavidGP · Oct 24, 2006

Hi Tyler

Do you suspect malware as the cause of the slowness? if so are your experiencing any popups, browser hijacks if so do any have names? or is it just slowness?

While this may not be malware related, the best option you have is to run the guide below and attach the logs, we can then determin if this is malware related or not.

If your running XP on that PC, I would more suspect just from what you have typed above that the issue with slowness is the lack of RAM in only having 256mb, XP really needs 512mb ~ 1024mb to function properly especially if opening many programs at once.

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