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| lindi Senior Member  12345 3205 Posts 9/02 |  Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 12:48PMWe are simple folk here, and can't figure out what our computer is doing these last few weeks. Perfect example -- I go to change my forum profile, and the little boxy pop-upy thing doesn't open. A blank white window thing comes up, and the computer freezes. No windows will close, the computer won't be shut off, nothing. It takes 20 or 30 minutes to chew on things and shut down. After a few days of ignoring that, when I click on links, the computer locks up. So I surf around without opening links. Nice. In either case, when it does this, the task panel shows the cpu is 100% in use. Running MSConfig doesn't help. Running spybot doesn't do it, or maybe it works for 15 minutes after rebooting. Deleting cookies and temporary files worked at least once. All our earthlink updates and windows updates, etc. have been done. Anyway, when we get frustrated, we do all those things and it works briefly. We added Spyware Blaster, too. Still all the same problem. Now what? [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 12:53PM [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 1:13PM Sounds like a real mess, eh? Edited by - lindi on 10/31/2005 1:13:23 PM [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 1:22PM Do you have Automatic Updates enabled for XP? What components of McAfee are you running? (Antivirus, personal firewall, spamkiller) Are you using Internet Explorer, Firefox or something else as your browser? Do you have any 3rd party 'toolbars' installed in your browser? [Link] |
| DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 1:23PM God I love your techie-talk language lindi. DenverDon [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 1:38PM Okay. for Hardware's questions: I'm not sure what updates might have been run before the problem started. My husband does those, and he mostly uses the computer to play chess, so the person doing the updating is not the person who experiences the resulting problems. However, he regularly updates Spybot and AVG, and has updated Earthlink a few times. We have XP on auto update. McAfee is totally uninstalled as far as we know. We run ie, and have not tried firefox. The only third party toolbar we have is Earthlink. I surely hope that is somehow illuminating. It's clear as mud to us. [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 2:37PM SO... for starters, I suggest you download Firefox from here, and see if you have the same problem with it. Please note that I wouldn't advise installing the Earthlink toolbar in Firefox. [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 3:02PM [Link] |
| DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 3:28PM You came through loud and clear, and it was understood perfectly. ... but I still love your techie-talk. DenverDon [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 4:25PM [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 8:03PM However, my husband had made some barley soup (yum) for his lunch, and I'm having that for dinner. You add buttermilk to it in the bowl. Yum. Now for the real news -- this computer didn't run this fast when we bought it last December! Yes! Thank you! You know who I'm gonna turn to next time. (All he did while I was gone was install firefox without an Earthlink toolbar). Now I have to eat that soup and get dressed as a witch. Edit -- a spoonful of homemade blackberry jam in a little pool on top of the Malt O Meal. Edited by - lindi on 10/31/2005 8:05:04 PM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 8:35PM However, if you choose to keep using Firefox then be sure to go back into Internet Explorer and delete all the temp files and cookies so as to free up disk space. Don't try to delete Internet Explorer, though. The good folks at Microsoft made sure it was ::ahem:: part of the operating system (cough...cough), so Windows will be very unhappy if you try to remove it. [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 8:39PM Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... [Link] |
| oatmeal Meat Popsicle Seeking Beauty 1738 Posts 8/04 | Posted - Nov 1 2005 : 7:26AM [Link] |
| lindi Senior Member 12345 3205 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Nov 1 2005 : 12:44PM [Link] |
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