quote:Originally posted by raybond: you know you have a good point even though they say they are safe I might be a little to trusting since nothing has ever happened to me
it really comes down to what you have on your computer as to whether you should worry.
i have to buy a new video card right now for one of the games the brats just bought.
i also had to add another gig of RAM to two of our computers because of new software that they just could not run well.
at least RAM is now down to about 20$ per gig. five years ago? i paid 5$ per megabyte
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Not completely sure of all the computer language.
I upgraded the cpu chip and had the bios upgraded.
I tried to download the upgraded bios on to a disk off the internet, but could not get the disk to load properly, so i brought it in and someone found a different website and downloaded it off that one.
My son looked at the cpu chip that i put in and said it was plenty big and that i am only using a quarter of my memory... story of my life
He played with it a little, but did not have enough time to go into it further.
I am using Microsoft XP, and pretty much anything i go into on the internet maxes out my cpu's, as indicated by the task manager.
One thing i was wondering about, is whether i have to go into the system and reset anything when i upgrade.
Someone suggested that i might need a new motherboard, this computer is 3+ years old, might not be worth it at this point.
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one of the brats 'puters was doing this too, and i found three different anti-spy ware system running on the computer, so go thru and remove all of them except windows defender.
running multiple anti-spyware apps can use up your CPU very fast.
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Just reinstall the operating system. Back everything you want to keep on dvd's or cd's and reload the operating system. If you haven't done it in the last three years then Glass is right... you have a tonne of spyware and other creepy crawlies. You will never be able to clean the system after three years. It's easy.. I did it already today.
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i have been able to clean them up without re-installing, try defender and the windows updates.
windows does shut out most of the spyware and viruses as they discover them, from their point of view? the spyware and viruses are exploitative of their product.
if you do not have explorer as your default browser? you cannot get automatic windows updates. that causes the most problems that i've seen, users switch to firefox as their default browser and they suddenly don't get updated anymore and they don't even realise it.
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Maybe a good registry cleaner as well before you do a O/S re-install. Lotta good free ones out there. This is in addition to what glass already recommended. GL!
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Iwish good luck with your lap top I looked for a year before I found what I needed.
Good advice from the guys I just get pissed off and do a complete wipe out and reinstall to the best of my ability or if I really get pissed I by a new cpu
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Ray I agree.. The only way to keep it running right is to just wipe it and start over. I keep a separate drive where I keep all my stuff and use the other just for the OS... when it gets sluggish I just reinstall... Now a days it only takes about an hour to get it back up and running.
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quote:Originally posted by Relentless.: Ray I agree.. The only way to keep it running right is to just wipe it and start over. I keep a separate drive where I keep all my stuff and use the other just for the OS... when it gets sluggish I just reinstall... Now a days it only takes about an hour to get it back up and running.
what happened to Ubuntu?
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Xp is faster for running programs... 7 is faster at pretty much everything else. Arguably the best windows release yet. Still a virus magnet but that's why I reinstall every month or so. Just look on the torrent sites. The latest build is 7600 I believe.
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On December 27, 2008, Windows 7 Beta was leaked onto the Internet via BitTorrent.[17] According to a performance test by ZDNet,[18] Windows 7 Beta beat both Windows XP and Vista in several key areas, including boot and shut down time, working with files such as loading documents; other areas did not beat XP, including PC Pro benchmarks for typical office activities and video-editing, remain identical to Vista and slower than XP.[19] On January 7, 2009, the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) was leaked onto the web, with some torrents being infected with a trojan.
it came with a trojan? at least it won't get STD's huh?
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