my comp keeps freezing? (1 Viewer)

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City Nut

New Member

• Aug 20, 2008

• #1

my pc just randomly decides to freeze up and i hav to shut it down by pressin on the power button for 5 seconds.

i am not sure wot is causing this? i have dun a spyware and virus check too.

 

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ccfc1987

New Member

• Aug 20, 2008

• #2

hi have a look at this link http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/f17/my-pc-is-runnin-well-slow-t355/

let us know

 

im-confused

Member

• Aug 20, 2008

• #3

you have too much on the hard drive. delete all things you don't need. make sure you're actually removing programs and not simpy deleting the desktop short cuts.

 

Nick

Administrator

• Aug 20, 2008

• #4

I don't think having too much on his hard drive would do this?

 

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ccfc1987

New Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #5

running to many programs could do this if the ram is low,

i would do a disk clean
then update my antivirus and anti spyware,then restart my pc in safe mode then do a full antivirus scan to see if i had a problem,

you could also do a prefetch clean,
click start then type in the run box prefetch then delete all that shows up,

do a defrag

 

pagey89

New Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #6

too much porn!

 

C

City Nut

New Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #7

i wish there woz porn on it :evil:

i think it may b dodgy memory

 

im-confused

Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #8

The exact same thing has happened to me and also a few people I know. And every time, it was un-needed programs slowing down the PC and it freezes because it's not supposed to run so slowly.

 

Nick

Administrator

• Aug 21, 2008

• #9

Do you have a 266 or something?

I can safely say it won't be having too many programs. It will be a bit of Spyware, a virus or a dodgy bit of hardware.

 

im-confused

Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #10

Well if he deletes a few programs, he's more likely to get rid of the faulty one.

 

Nick

Administrator

• Aug 21, 2008

• #11

im-confused said:

The exact same thing has happened to me and also a few people I know. And every time, it was un-needed programs slowing down the PC and it freezes because it's not supposed to run so slowly.

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im-confused said:

Well if he deletes a few programs, he's more likely to get rid of the faulty one.

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Get rid of faulty hardware by deleting programs? :?

 

im-confused

Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #12

faulty programs not faulty hardware.

 

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ccfc1987

New Member

• Aug 21, 2008

• #13

on the tool bar right click this and bring up task manager and look to see how many processes are running,all so if the cpu showing 100% and not droping you might find you have a virus or spyware problem,or auto update is updating that can make your pc slow up,norton antivirus the updater used to slow my pc down,

Most system and application failures are fairly easy to identify. Random failures often indicate hardware problems.
Bad RAM, overheating, and defective hard disks, in order, are the most common hardware failures in my experience.
Hardware can fail over time. Most people assume that the problem is software because they haven’t changed any hardware lately
Hope that helps, joe

 

Last edited: Aug 22, 2008

pagey89

New Member

• Aug 23, 2008

• #14

mate if all else fails i would back up anything that is important and then do a full system restore

 

im-confused

Member

• Aug 23, 2008

• #15

how much space have you got free?

 

C

City Nut

New Member

• Aug 26, 2008

• #16

thanks, this is now fixed it was dodgy memory.

 

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ccfc1987

New Member

• Aug 26, 2008

• #17

glad you got it sorted

 

C

City Nut

New Member

• Aug 29, 2008

• #18

had to re install windows too

 

pagey89

New Member

• Aug 29, 2008

• #19

City Nut said:

had to re install windows too

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main thing is that its sorted mate