[Solved] slow unresponsive laptop

[tismehi]

i did not think i would be returning to this again but........

 

my nephew did not collect it last night so this morning i switched it on in order to check for more updates.

 

the mouse was unresponsive and there was a constant eggtimer. i clicked a shortcut for windows update and after 10 minutes or more, it had not loaded.

 

the mouse cursor would not respond. nothing would work. i tried ctrl/alt/del and again it would not respond.

 

these were the original problems i had before i ordered a recovery dvd from toshiba.

 

i powered it off, waited quite a while and powered up again. it is now behaving stable again.

[KenB]

powered it off, waited quite a while and powered up again. it is now behaving stable again.

 

Are you sure this machine isn't haunted ??

 

Run it for a few days to see if it stays stable.

We can try running a check on the system files if it plays up again.

[tismehi]

oko. will do thanks.

[tismehi]

i switched it on this morning and all was well and stable.

 

about an hour later it froze again. all i could do was power off. i switched it on again and it started in safe mode.

 

obviously there is a problem still.

[tismehi]

after another restart, it is now stable again.

 

a couple of things i have noticed - in my computer there are 2 hard drives listed. windows © 122gb free of 149gb and data (d) 141gb free of 148gb.

 

d contains only 2 folders - (1) hdd recovery (2) 487c006a8f483458f8.

 

but in c there are many listed folders and i notice that there are 2 folders called program files, one of which has (x86) after it.

 

i think this a bit strange. a bit more head scratching.

[Armageddon]

hi re your drives (D) drive contains your recovery and a saved restore point thats the folder with all the numbers , on © you have two program file folders one is for 32bit programs and the X86 one is for 64bit programs