Eric Happy Meal

my computer is running super duper duper slow. so i ran norton and also ad-aware. neither of them found anything, and once they were done the comp was doing just fine. So then a couple hours later it starts running super slow again, and it showed that there was somethign in the recycle bin, and when you open it, its empty, so when you click empty recycle bin a window pops up and says "Are you sure you want to uninstall windows?" so does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of this?

CrashFactory

mine did this also (winxp home, SP1, all available updates) I just restarted and it went away...I think it had sumthing to do with the updates...



Sean

Eric Happy Meal

i searched for updates, but there were none, and now the recycling bin is empty and its running alright again. sometimes i just dont know.

CrashFactory

My comp specs:



Dell Dimension XPS

3.2ghz P4

2gb RAM

120gb HD in RAID 0

DVD/CD-r Combo drive

Creative Audigy 2 5.1 surround sound card

128mb Radeon 9800

256mb DSL (crappy ****)



I didn't notice a slowdown, i just hate things being in my Recycle Bin,

I also use norton (Norton Systemworks 2K3) so I'm not sure if it may

have sumthing to do with Norton, but I had also just installed all of the

new security and driver updates from Micro$haft....



Sean

Eric Happy Meal

well its draggin *** again. and my comps just a little bit shittier than yours. i think the same processor, but i only have 1.25 gig of mem.

CrashFactory

Hrm.....hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and look at your processes and see what's eating up clock cycles, that's the easiest way to find out, unless it's a mean hidden nasty type thing, if that's the case, and you've already tried Spybot and Norton, maybe try AdAware..if not, damn, i dunno, sumthing's gotta be running in the background OR maybe check your fans and make sure the fan on the processor is firmly attached to the heat sink and the

heat sink is firmly attached to the processor, other than that....



Sean

defprun

System restore.



I thought your sister needed a kidney or something i was ready to help out!!! And I'd donate some BONE marrow while im at it "just in case"

CrashFactory

hrm........ add some vinyl graphics, a blowoff valve sound maker, fake plastic supercharger glue-on...that should help at least a little



Sean

ColinRX7

CrashFactory

Now I'm gonna go play GTA:Vice City on my reallyfastnotsloweddownonebitsuperspeednicespeed Comp...



Thank You, That is all...



Sean