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XP slowing to a crawl.
Name: sai351 Date: September 17, 2006 at 05:37:21 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD 64 3200+/1GB DDR400 Product: N/A
Comment:
My PC was running great. Programs loaded quickly and games ran smoothly. However, after I installed Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter I started having problems. The game would just randomly crash on me and when it did my system started running really slow. I updated the game but it didn't help any with the crashes. I uninstalled it but the damage appears to have been done. My system is still running extremely slow. Sometimes it takes my pc 3 minutes to open 1 program! I ran scandisk, Norton WinDr, and Crap Cleaner to check my registery, programs and windows files. I ran 3 different virus scanners as well. I also ran CheckIT Diagnostics for all my hardware and everything turned up ok. I have no idea what could be causing my PC to run this slow. And yes I restarted my PC :) Any Suggestions?
Name: grasshopper Date: September 17, 2006 at 06:13:05 Pacific
Reply:
Try a System Restore to a point before you installed the game. Good Luck...
Keep Smiling It makes them think you're up to something...
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Response Number 2
Name: Ghostman 1 Date: September 17, 2006 at 06:50:28 Pacific
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I would Defrag first, then try system restore..
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: September 17, 2006 at 09:18:09 Pacific
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I wouldn't bother with defrag, but I would run chkdsk /f.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Response Number 4
Name: Imp Date: September 17, 2006 at 19:50:07 Pacific
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I suggest you download three excellent freewares actualy availables on the net: 1) AdAware SE 2) SpywareBlaster 3) Spybot Search & Destroy The first one check and clean all your system The second and third one cheks, destroy and vaccin a computer against around 20.000 signatures Both three programs are compatibles together, and works very well to clean your system, try it and watch if you have a better speed ....
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