zuzu's petals
Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: I may disappear ~ Laptop runnng super slow |
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Just in case I should suddenly vanish,
I wanted to let you all know that my laptop is apparently
having some sort of deep psychological problems.
I hadn't had any sort of problems with it for a long time,
but earlier this afternoon it went totally schizoid on me 
for hours it just would NOT cooperate with me . . . AT ALL!
I have no idea what got up it's nose, nor do I have any idea
why it seems to functioning correctly again now.
I also don't know how long it will function correctly.
So, if I go missing, now you know why.
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glendann
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I sure do hope it keeps working .I would miss you not being here,I bet you would rush out and get it fixed.
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Frank
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Zuzu, what signs/symptoms is it showing? Maybe someone here can shed some light on what the problem may be.
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jubabe296
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Oh Zuzu I hope it doesn't quit on you! I hate it when we have computer problems! It makes for a sad miserable bunch of people around here! Hopefully someone here can help as Frank has suggested!
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Netty
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Hope your laptop is fixed for good Zuzu.
And if you are anything like me, it will make you a wee bit cranky not being able to visit the stew!
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zuzu's petals
Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the good thoughts, everyone. 
| Gardenstew wrote: | | Zuzu, what signs/symptoms is it showing? Maybe someone here can shed some light on what the problem may be. |
It was totally bonkers! Never seen anything like it.
Last night when I shut it down, all was fine,
but from the moment I turned it on this afternoon it was psycho.
It was SUPER slow, programs kept freezing up,
then it would go entirely unresponsive,
I couldn't even use Ctrl/Alt/Del.
I kept having to shut down manually.
It refused to let me do a system restore.
It was like it was possessed,
I really thought I had "caught" a bad bug, 
but Norton says no, and I can't imagine where I would have picked anything up,
I don't go anywhere more exciting than the gardening forums. 
This all went on for several hours,
I was emotionally preparing myself for a system recovery ordeal this weekend.
But, everything seems to have spontaneously returned to normal . . . for now.
I think it had an electronic mini-stroke.
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Frank
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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My first thoughts are that I may have been a hardware problem Zuzu but if it seems to have snapped back then maybe not.
Can you try this for a curious gnome. I'm assuming you use Windows (XP?). If your system starts running super slow again hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click on the Processes tab on the Windows Task Manager that appears. Click on CPU to sort the list and take note of the top 5 entries in the list. Let me know about them and I will perform some detective work for you.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:13 am Post subject: |
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Thank you Frank, yes to Windows XP,
I will make a note of these instructions (in fact, I will print them out to keep at hand)
and follow them next time it gets bogged down
 . . . . . if the laptop will allow me to.
It was so odd, I've never had Ctrl+Alt+Del fail to respond before,
that really shocked me! 
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Frank
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Have you got Spybot: Search and Destroy installed Zuzu? If not I highly recommend you download it and give it a run. You may be surprised at the amount of crud on your system that Norton failed to notice.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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I don't have that installed, and I probably should, but all I have is the Norton Suite.
I'm really gun-shy about downloading security programs, after one VERY bad experience.
Not to bore you with a long story,
but Spybot and several other programs were suggested to me shortly after I got the laptop,
Adaware (sp?) and one or 2 others, too (I was having some program freeze up problems at the time)
anyhow, I wish I could recall which one I tried to install first,
the result was that the computer would not boot up.
I never got to try to download any others.
That was when we had to do the first full system restore,
what a nightmare that was!
Honestly, I've had more problems with security programs, now that I think about it,
I had E-Trust (provided by my cable co.) for a while, that did NOT go well. 
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Frank
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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I understand why you would feel paranoid after a bad experience Zuzu. Similar experiences have happened to me. I will just say however that in all my use of and reading about Spybot I have yet to encounter a truly negative comment about it.
Also just to add: The Spybot and AVG Antivirus program combination has served me well to date. You still need a decent firewall however.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:44 am Post subject: |
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That's good to know,  one of these days I may get to feeling gutsy and go for it,
but hubby may kill me dead if I kill the machine again. 
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Frank
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Tell him a 'little voice' told you to do it
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:52 am Post subject: |
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"But bay-bee, Da Gnome sed it would be okay"
Yeh, I think I can hear the men in the white coats coming for me now
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