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dragonyphoenix ([personal profile] dragonyphoenix) wrote2013-09-25 10:29 am
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My computer sucks!!!

Kerkevick sent me this link to brighten up my day, which does need brightening (although this did help). I now know why I avoided getting home Internet for so long: my computer sucks! It crashed (again) and I can barely get Internet at home, which means I'm back at the library. This happened when I had dial-up Internet but I figured it was the computer and the dial-up (because I needed an external modem), but no. It's the computer. Time for a new one.

Here's the happy link:
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[identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com 2013-09-25 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you tried to reinstall windows (get the computer back to factory settings)?

I did that with my niece's laptop and it was (almost) as good as new. It was certainly faster and didn't freeze any more.

If you need any help with it let me know :)

Or maybe, as a first step, install the program called C Cleaner and let it clean up your computer.

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

[identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com 2013-09-25 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the suggestions.

I think it's fairly integral to the computer. It completely died some years back and was brought back to it's factory settings by the young man at the shop. He seemed very competent. Plus the computer is fine as long as I don't access Internet with it. I think Toshiba just f'ed up.

I will take a look at C Cleaner but given the problems with the Internet I'm not sure I'll be able to download it onto this machine.

[identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com 2013-09-25 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
C Cleaner did help. I can at least see web pages again although I did have to refresh LJ three times before I got any of my entries. I still think a new computer is in the works.

Thanks!

[identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Did you do both a Clean up and a register clean up (the first and second choices on the list to the right?)

Cleaning the registry is often what is needed when a computer seems to slow down. Don't be afraid of doing this. You simply save when the program asks you if you'd like to save and then there should be no risk in deleting all the problematic registry keys.

Also try looking under the "tools" button. Here you click the 4th option (mine is in Danish but it probably says something like "system reboot" or something like it) Here you highlight all the options you can. The program will lock the first one on the list for safety reasons. Then you delete all the others.

If it's been a few years since the computer was last put back to it's factory settings it might be time to do it again. But try out the other options in CCleaner first. I've saved quite a few computers using nothing but that program :)

[identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
I hadn't noticed the different options on the side. The clean-up itself made a big difference. I've just done the others; hopefully they'll help as well.

Thanks!

[identity profile] devo79.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
They should.

Especially deleting the "system reboot" files, since they take up a lot of space.

Using Ccleaner once a week or so should keep your computer up and running.

If/when you get a new computer you should certainly install Ccleaner and use it often as well. It's all the crap that accumulates on the computer that slows it down and not really the hardware.
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