Little Ted

Hi again , also just found another problem, Just tried to start in safe mode but after tapping F8 the option to do so is not there the only option is MS windows XP home notjing else to toggle up and down to and the comp comp freezes and I need to manually reboot So is this a widows problem and could it be the cause of initial problem is it repairable or is it a total reformatting job as I only have a recovery CD not a windows CD all/any advice greatfully received Cheers Little Ted

OK No Problem, apart from where does one get another 512 MB of RAM from and exactly where does one Drop It in? or how much should I expect to pay someone to do it for me? HD has only 40 fragmented files, restore points are cleared every time a new one is created and temp files are cleared every 2 days I am meticulous about this since the problem started trying to keep the CPU usage down Little Ted

Hi Guys, Hoping someone can give me some Ideas on this a few weeks ago my comp started to slow down to almost stop it was freezing and hanging all over the place, task manager cpu usage was 100% most of the time but after a while gradually dropped to around the 50% mark which is where it is at the moment apart from the odd spike, strange thing is the Idle process is most of the time normal at around 97-99% with task manager between 1 and 2% I didnt think this was possible?:confused: so far Ive cleaned with Ccleaner, Advanced System Care, Malwarebytes and a few others I've forgotten but they were all free (once used uninstalled immediately with 21 day trial of your Uninstaller) When problems started was using AVG anti virus but that has always slowed down this computer so got rid of that and installed PC Guard that was even worse so now got a free version of I0bit 360 pro:) but no difference to cpu usage.:( Have used msconfig to do selective startup and one by one unchecked/checked startup programmes to no avail BUT when I uncheck Load system Services and reboot the system is like lightening and CPU usage a steady 5% but computers useless with no services loaded Anyone any Ideas where I go from here (apart from the Dustbin and back to Pc World):mad: Advent T9201 Intel R Pent ®CPU 3.4GHz 512 MB RAM XP home SP3 Any advice greatfully received thanks for reading Little Ted

Hi Guys,n,Gals Little Ted 'ere, I live in the woods around Nottingham, UK They used to call it a forest But the Sheriff had most of the trees cut down, Been using Computers for about 10 years, you know switch on, use, switch off, when things went wrong,:( called the man ,he fixed it No Probs:D But now decided I dont want to pay him any more, as I think he puts things on my machines to see what I am doing:mad: So I found You guys and am sure I'll be asking what you all will think silly questions in the next few weeks:o Ok Speak later Going to Play with my friend Robin:):)