computer not working properly

[Guest steve]

My Computer is taking a longtime to power up

[Guest nass]

RE: computer not working properly

 

 

 

"steve" wrote:

> My Computer is taking a longtime to power up

 

Does this occured of a sudden or it was dragging you all the way long and

now you fed up with it?

 

Some Qs to answer in your next post if the steps below didn't help:

1- How much disk space you got

2- How much RAM installed on this machine

3- Do you have an up2date anti-virus and malware

4- what version of XP you have

5- any updates recently installed or new hardware/software

 

Go through these cleaning steps:

1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet

Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window

you will see these Options:

General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs

| Advanced .

 

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called

[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on

[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [

Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

 

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your

browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:

Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable

the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one

later and see which is the culprit .

How to manage Add-Ons:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

 

Scan for malware from here:

SuperAntispyware - Free Download and update then runa cmplete scan:

http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

 

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah

http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

 

Windows memory: A whirlwind tour

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-memusage/

Quick Guide to Monitoring Memory

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/76098/jsi-tip-4792-evaluating-memory-and-cache-usage.html

How to speed your PC:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

 

Run disk clean up and then run this command:

sfc /scannow

 

 

Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it

later for this step to copy the error message on it.

Open a run command and type in:

eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.

click on each of these:

Application

System

Security

Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow

exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the

causer.

On the Event error properties message you will see:

Up Arrow

Down arrow

Two pages

Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad

you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from

the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.

Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

 

Please we need just the error messages with Red (X) and don't repeat the

error, just one of each kind and post them back in your next post.

 

HTH,

nass

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[Guest Gerry]

Re: computer not working properly

 

Steve

 

How much RAM? What CPU speed?

 

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance

Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

 

What errors appear in Event Viewer?

 

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the

System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in

normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate

which also appear in a previous boot.

 

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,

Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning

of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description

are important.

 

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double

click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a

button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event

Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of

the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from

Event Viewer.

 

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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steve wrote:

> My Computer is taking a longtime to power up