I may disappear ~ Laptop runnng super slow

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.

 

I sure do hope it keeps working .I would miss you not being here,I bet you would rush out and get it fixed.

 

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!

 

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!

 

Thanks for the good thoughts, everyone.

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

"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

 

You'll need to download four programs.
First, download and install AVG antivirus at http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
Second, download and install Spybot.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
Third, download and install Adaware.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
Fourth, download and install Regcleaner.
http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

Install and run them in the order I listed them. Each one should improve things. If not, either your memory or your hard drive is going out. Both can have intermittent problems. Most of the new machines have the capability of testing the memory, but you have to turn it on in the system setup files. The hard drive is harder to test, but if the above programs can't help I'll see what I can dig up for you.