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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