Atomic_238
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I really need some advice, But I know about as much about computers as paris hilton, I have a myspace, I've installed and uninstalled games, I know a bit about task manager and thats it.
So let me tell you this story and maybe you can rescue from my misery.
Once upon a time my family bought an HP w/ pentium 4 processor, 512 mb DDR SDRAM, 250 gig 7200 RPM hard drive, ATI raedeon X3000 SE graphics card, and windows XP. I installed a game on it, star wars galexies. It worked fine, quick, and never overheated. Now it's like an old man in a marathon and I need some help fixing it. I cant run the game, and firefox+itunes alone makes the fan kick on.
1. When I start the computer up like 50ish (I counted) process's start up, none of them which I understand. I use task manager to shut some down but they keep coming right back! some, like 'winlogon.exe' wont let me shut them down. That doesent sound like a critical system process. With all this junk running I assume that contributes to the problem. It runs ipodservice.exe, and I DONT HAVE AN IPOD!!!!
2. When we bought the computer the idiot at best buy told my dad that he would need some kind of media program for dad to be able to burn cd's or something. My dad bought it, installed it, then realized the comp. already had like two of them. This new program might have botched some code around or something, my dad called tech support and fixed it a little.
3.lastly I did the analyze for the defrag and it reccomended one. It looks bad to me but what do I know. I'll defrag it once I get the 'go ahead' from daddi-o.
At one point I considered wiping the memory, but I don't really know enough about it to do it. Is it a good idea? How do I do it? most importantly can I save microsoft word, publisher, etc... along with some other files?
Our spyware stuff Is doing well, very few or no pop-ups, we have a firewall or two.
so any links to simpler sites would be sweet, basic instructions, recomendations, anything to help a kid out. Muchas gracias.
So let me tell you this story and maybe you can rescue from my misery.
Once upon a time my family bought an HP w/ pentium 4 processor, 512 mb DDR SDRAM, 250 gig 7200 RPM hard drive, ATI raedeon X3000 SE graphics card, and windows XP. I installed a game on it, star wars galexies. It worked fine, quick, and never overheated. Now it's like an old man in a marathon and I need some help fixing it. I cant run the game, and firefox+itunes alone makes the fan kick on.
1. When I start the computer up like 50ish (I counted) process's start up, none of them which I understand. I use task manager to shut some down but they keep coming right back! some, like 'winlogon.exe' wont let me shut them down. That doesent sound like a critical system process. With all this junk running I assume that contributes to the problem. It runs ipodservice.exe, and I DONT HAVE AN IPOD!!!!
2. When we bought the computer the idiot at best buy told my dad that he would need some kind of media program for dad to be able to burn cd's or something. My dad bought it, installed it, then realized the comp. already had like two of them. This new program might have botched some code around or something, my dad called tech support and fixed it a little.
3.lastly I did the analyze for the defrag and it reccomended one. It looks bad to me but what do I know. I'll defrag it once I get the 'go ahead' from daddi-o.
At one point I considered wiping the memory, but I don't really know enough about it to do it. Is it a good idea? How do I do it? most importantly can I save microsoft word, publisher, etc... along with some other files?
Our spyware stuff Is doing well, very few or no pop-ups, we have a firewall or two.
so any links to simpler sites would be sweet, basic instructions, recomendations, anything to help a kid out. Muchas gracias.
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