PC's Throwing A Wobbler

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29 August 2005, 03:53 PM

Dieseldog

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PC's Throwing A Wobbler

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29 August 2005, 06:33 PM

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All of a sudden my comp's slower to start up, reluctant to turn off at all, and doesn't like to print (even though the print queue recognises there's a job to be done). Plus Nero and 'Joint Ops' (game) have both locked up when I've tried updating them.

I've ran Ad-aware, Spybot and NIS2005 Antivirus (

I know, I know, flame suit duly donned) but nothing seems untoward.

Anyone have any ideas? Anything to do with that MS security patch from a couple of weeks ago? Planning on reformatting once I get my shiny new external drive from ebuyer in a couple of days but any ideas gratefully accepted. Ta'!

Spunds like a virus/spyware problem. Can you access the Windows Task Manager and see what the CPU is being taxed with?

The only other suggestion is to get hold of a program called 'stinger' from here:

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp

Copy this to your hard drive. Rebbot the PC into safemode and run the stinger tool to see if it can locate any viruses.

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30 August 2005, 08:44 AM

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Slow boots are usually caused by driver conflicts. This can happen if you've done too much hardware changing, or you've not installed a driver properly, or a crash of five have borked existing drivers, or two drivers are conflicting.

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