Help, My computer is acting up

[colleyvillesooner]

My computer is starting to act up. It takes longer to boot up, then beteween clicks on pages or around the computer, it pauses like it's catching up. When I open control panel add remove programs to get rid of some programs I don't need, they never come up. It just says "please wait while we retrieve ths list" or something like that.

When I start clicking around and it freezes up, in the processes screen "explorer.exe" goes up to around 21,476k. What does that mean?

Can it be from overheating? It started recently, but I havent really added too many new programs.

Here are some pics that may help:

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/7271/performace9pl.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/5981/processes8mn.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/3892/properties8yt1eg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[yermom]

have you run adaware or the like lately?

you might also run msconfig.exe and see uncheck a lot of stuff on the "Startup"
tab, you can basically uncheck everything, but you can also see most of what is starting up from there

Start -> Run -> type "msconfig"

[oumartin]

run netscape..

[yermom]

wrong explorer ;)

my explorer is using 25, almost 26 MB right now, so i'm thinking that isn't the problem, it sounds about normal

[OUinFLA]

Is Stanley1 hiding inside you computer?

[OCUDad]

Is Stanley1 hiding inside you computer?He said the computer was acting up, not acting out. :D

[GDC]

Defrag, clean the hard drive, and restart.

[afs]

get a mac, ywia.

[slickdawg]

Defrag, clean the hard drive, and restart.

gdc speaks the truth


start - programs - accessories - system tools - disk defragmenter


That sounds like your problem

[booomer]

Download and run this application: http://ccleaner.com/ (run the cleaner and the issues option.)

And then defrag your hard drive...it sounds like you are over run with spyware.

[JohnnyMack]

pr0n wins again.

[Beef]

pr0n wins again.
pr0n always wins. God bless it.

[OUDoc]

get a mac, ywia.
His life isn't THAT bad. ;)

[colleyvillesooner]

Okay, ran adaware, spybot and window defender. Deleted all the stuff it said to , which wasn;t all that much since I run them semi regulary. Ran CCcleaner and it deleted a whole bunch of crap. unchecked all the stuff on startup as well.

Disk fragment is at 1%. One weird thing, it no longer show my 2nd harddrive (D:) on there. When i try to open it uncer my computer, it freezes it up and gives me the not responding error. Could this be part of the problem. That hard drive is just misc stuff from my old computer. It has been on it the whole time and never acted up before. All my programs and software run off of C: drive

[yermom]

the failing harddrive could be mucking up the works, if it's timing out on the I/O junk that could be causing it to be groggy

seems i've had that happen before

[GrapevineSooner]

Along those lines, look under Disk Management and see if XP/2000 is listing your hard drives as anything less than Healthy.

[RacerX]

http://www.memtest86.com/

[RacerX]

And what's your freespace?

What size is your virutal memory?

is your antivirus up to date?

[nanimonai]

Did you check the oil filter?

[colleyvillesooner]

the failing harddrive could be mucking up the works, if it's timing out on the I/O junk that could be causing it to be groggy

seems i've had that happen before

How does one check this? Do what Grape suggested?


Along those lines, look under Disk Management and see if XP/2000 is listing your hard drives as anything less than Healthy.

Will do tonight when I get home.


http://www.memtest86.com/

I'll check this out tonight as well.


And what's your freespace?

What size is your virutal memory?

is your antivirus up to date?

Alot, not sure, and yes.

[Ike]

disconnect the second hard drive. see if that helps. I've seen it happen where a bad hard drive does cause crazy bootup times...

also, with the add/remove garbage, I could imagine that that times out if windows tries to check a hard drive that isn't responding.

[colleyvillesooner]

disconnect the second hard drive. see if that helps. I've seen it happen where a bad hard drive does cause crazy bootup times...

also, with the add/remove garbage, I could imagine that that times out if windows tries to check a hard drive that isn't responding.

Yeah, I'll have to try that tonight. That's the only thing that seems different.

[Czar Soonerov]

disconnect the second hard drive. see if that helps. I've seen it happen where a bad hard drive does cause crazy bootup times...

also, with the add/remove garbage, I could imagine that that times out if windows tries to check a hard drive that isn't responding.

Mine has booted off the slave a couple times (windows98). It was kinda freaky to see my old desktop & all my old crap.

[Ike]

Mine has booted off the slave a couple times (windows98). It was kinda freaky to see my old desktop & all my old crap.


leaving the entire contents of an old system on a slave drive doesn't sound very bright to me...

[JohnnyMack]

Hit it with a hammer. Really hard. That should shake loose whatever's causing the problem.

[OUDoc]

Hit it with a hammer. Really hard. That should shake loose whatever's causing the problem.
I use that one with my kids all the time. It works.
For a while.

[Czar Soonerov]

leaving the entire contents of an old system on a slave drive doesn't sound very bright to me...

I'm not a computer genius, I admit. It hasn't done it in probably 3 years. :O

[colleyvillesooner]

disconnect the second hard drive. see if that helps. I've seen it happen where a bad hard drive does cause crazy bootup times...

also, with the add/remove garbage, I could imagine that that times out if windows tries to check a hard drive that isn't responding.



the failing harddrive could be mucking up the works, if it's timing out on the I/O junk that could be causing it to be groggy


seems i've had that happen before
That did it!

Thanks!

[jk the sooner fan]

have you considered unslaving the hard drive?

[colleyvillesooner]

heh