Help! PC is Slowing / Hanging Many Times Daily!

[Dave]

Greetings!
PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will not
close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have rebooted 3
times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since first
week of use, 3rd week of June '03.

Compaq Presario s3200nx
AMD Athlon 2400
2.0 GHz
120 GB HD
256 MB RAM
WIN XP Home SP1
Zone Alarms 3.7
Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15

Thanks in advance!

-- Dave

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

OK, you might want to scan your system for other possible viruses and make
sure your antivirus app has the latest definitions before scanning.

Also, go to Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, open Event Viewer,
look for errors that correspond to when the some of these issues occur,
double click the error, the information contained within may give a clue as
to the source of the issue.

Download and run the following:

Ad Aware: www.lavasoftusa.com
SpyBot: http://www.safer-networking.org/



--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/


Dave wrote:
> Greetings!
> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will
> not close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have
> rebooted 3 times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since
> first week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>
> Compaq Presario s3200nx
> AMD Athlon 2400
> 2.0 GHz
> 120 GB HD
> 256 MB RAM
> WIN XP Home SP1
> Zone Alarms 3.7
> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- Dave

[Perdita X. Nitt]

Dave wrote:
> Greetings!
> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will
> not close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have
> rebooted 3 times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since
> first week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>
> Compaq Presario s3200nx
> AMD Athlon 2400
> 2.0 GHz
> 120 GB HD
> 256 MB RAM
> WIN XP Home SP1
> Zone Alarms 3.7
> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- Dave

Question: If you've been having problems since day one - why have you put up
with it for two months and not demanded a repair/refund/exchange under the
warranty that was undoubtedly conferred upon the system at the point of
sale. By soldiering on with it you could be deemed to have accepted the
system and the company may be less willing to assist you (although they are
still obliged to under the terms of the warranty though, obviously, I don't
know what the exact wording of your warranty might be).

Take it back and have them look at it - by doing something yourself - if you
don't really know what you're doing you could end up voiding that warranty.


Please don't cross-post to every group under the sun - pick two or three
relevant groups at most.

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[Eber]

Dave

Certainly AdAware is a good choice for you.


Eber

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"Dave" > escreveu na mensagem
...
> Greetings!
> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will not
> close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have rebooted 3
> times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since
first
> week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>
> Compaq Presario s3200nx
> AMD Athlon 2400
> 2.0 GHz
> 120 GB HD
> 256 MB RAM
> WIN XP Home SP1
> Zone Alarms 3.7
> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- Dave
>
>

[Joh N.]

Perdita X. Nitt, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to
use, wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>> Greetings!
>> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will
>> not close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have
>> rebooted 3 times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
>> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
>> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
>> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since
>> first week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>>
>> Compaq Presario s3200nx
>> AMD Athlon 2400
>> 2.0 GHz
>> 120 GB HD
>> 256 MB RAM
>> WIN XP Home SP1
>> Zone Alarms 3.7
>> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -- Dave
>
> Question: If you've been having problems since day one - why have you put up
> with it for two months and not demanded a repair/refund/exchange under the
> warranty that was undoubtedly conferred upon the system at the point of
> sale. By soldiering on with it you could be deemed to have accepted the
> system and the company may be less willing to assist you (although they are
> still obliged to under the terms of the warranty though, obviously, I don't
> know what the exact wording of your warranty might be).
>
> Take it back and have them look at it - by doing something yourself - if you
> don't really know what you're doing you could end up voiding that warranty.
>
>
> Please don't cross-post to every group under the sun - pick two or three
> relevant groups at most.
>
> --
> Perdita X. Dream

**** you, you stinking slit. You need to figure out where to end your ****ing
pathetic hypocrisy. You tell posters they're idiots for not trying to find a
solution on their own, or they're idiots for trying and finally giving up and
asking if anyone else knows. Your stupidity is a ****ing stench that makes it
all the way across the damn ocean without any sign of weakening.

Joh N.
--
People Against Perditta's Smelly,Myopic,Egotistical,Assinine,Retardation
(P.A.P.S.M.E.A.R.)

[Perdita X. Nitt]

Eber wrote:
> Dave
>
> Certainly AdAware is a good choice for you.
>
>
> Eber
>
>
> "Dave" > escreveu na mensagem
> ...
>> Greetings!
>> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will
>> not close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have
>> rebooted 3 times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
>> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
>> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
>> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing
>> since first week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>>
>> Compaq Presario s3200nx
>> AMD Athlon 2400
>> 2.0 GHz
>> 120 GB HD
>> 256 MB RAM
>> WIN XP Home SP1
>> Zone Alarms 3.7
>> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -- Dave

And how the blibbins with AdAware stop his system from locking up?! Sounds
like a hardware problem to me.

--
Perdita X. Dream

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Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
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[Hamiltoons]

> And how the blibbins with AdAware stop his system from locking up?! Sounds
> like a hardware problem to me.
>
> --
> Perdita X. Dream
>

Your responses certainly don't help when you always have an attitude when
you post something.

[Wendy\(v-2wends\)]

Have you tried to see if this happens in safe mode? To get to safe mode, tap
F8 when the computer is starting, then choose it from the list.
Also might want to run a diagnostics on the hardware of the system, as the
memory might be getting too full and needing the cache cleaned, so if this
be the case, it would need the restart.


"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings!
> PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will not
> close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have rebooted 3
> times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
> Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
> I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
> Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since
first
> week of use, 3rd week of June '03.
>
> Compaq Presario s3200nx
> AMD Athlon 2400
> 2.0 GHz
> 120 GB HD
> 256 MB RAM
> WIN XP Home SP1
> Zone Alarms 3.7
> Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- Dave
>
>