'puter problem.

[Farneyman]

Looking for some help here. Managed to knacker my other pc last night.

In a nut shell my pc is running soooooo slowly so I tried to do a few things to try and speed it up. The only problem is it wont do feck all now.

I did create a restore point before doing anything as I thought this would allow me to go back to then. Then I run diskcleaner, msconfig and downloaded and run ccleaner

When i restarted the pc the apperance was all different ,like an old style graphic and it wont allow me to go to system restore saying its not runnig properly. It also will no longer recognise any network or wireless signal.

My main question is how focked is it and is there another way to get to system restore?

 

[SyR]

Have you tried starting it in safe mode?

 

[Farneyman]

Have you tried starting it in safe mode?

Sorry how do I do that? and if I can what would I then do?

Thanks

 

[PhilTheFragger]

as soon as you press the start button, start tapping the F8 key

A menu will come up

Choose " Last known good configuration"
if that works great, if not repeat the proceedure, but opt for "Safe Mode"

start, programs,accessories, system tools, system restore

Shout if that soesnt work

Fragger

 

[Farneyman]

as soon as you press the start button, start tapping the F8 key

A menu will come up

Choose " Last known good configuration"
if that works great, if not repeat the proceedure, but opt for "Safe Mode"

start, programs,accessories, system tools, system restore

Shout if that soesnt work

Fragger

cool will try that now and let you know cheers.

 

[Farneyman]

started it tapping f8 and it restarted but did not work...

this came up..

"system restore does not appear to be functioningcorrectly on this system.

the volume shadow copy service used by system restore is not working. for more information view the event log (0x81000202)"

:-(

 

[SyR]

Does it not give you the option to go into safe mode when you press F8? Try only pressing F8 once just after you turn your pc on.

If you can navigate to systems restore after windows loads in safe mode then you may be able to go back to an earlier version.

Also what version of windows are you running?

 

[Farneyman]

Does it not give you the option to go into safe mode when you press F8? Try only pressing F8 once just after you turn your pc on.

If you can navigate to systems restore after windows loads in safe mode then you may be able to go back to an earlier version.

Also what version of windows are you running?

I managed to start it on safe mode. The screen has now changed to icons larger than before and when I then try to go to system restore the message in my previous post comes up.

Its windows vista.

 

[Region3]

Safe mode won't load everything on startup, just necessary drivers. That's why your icons are bigger, it's only loaded basic graphics drivers not your full-blown ones.

When you said you ran msconfig, what exactly did you change?
msconfig doesn't do anything on its own, just allows you to change what's loaded on startup if I remember right.

 

[Farneyman]

When you said you ran msconfig, what exactly did you change?
msconfig doesn't do anything on its own, just allows you to change what's loaded on startup if I remember right.

Thats where the problems start. Not exactly sure, followed instructions from a wee computer guy on youTube ........that may be where my common sense left me.... will try and find link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKZ-0krCaqs

I used his instructions as best I could hope I havent agve all my back details to some Nigerian King

I thought it would be straight forward......

 

[Region3]

I would run msconfig again and turn everything back on. If that works and you still want to remove certain items from startup, you can remove items one at a time until it breaks then you'll know which one not to remove

 

[Farneyman]

I would run msconfig again and turn everything back on. If that works and you still want to remove certain items from startup, you can remove items one at a time until it breaks then you'll know which one not to remove

Will that now will let you know how it goes. Thanks everyone.

 

[Region3]

Hopefully that will sort it because I can't imagine disk cleanup or ccleaner doing any harm.

Having said that I'm not in i.t. so others may have more idea than me.

 

[Leftie]

Having said that I'm not in i.t.

Now you tell him

 

[Farneyman]

Sorted. That worked. Thanks guys.

Back to sqaure one now.

A few questions if I may.... How can I safely speed up the start up of my pc. It took 5 mins to start up and get online. It seems a long time is that normal?

The other reason I tried to do stuff my self was I was fed up waiting ages for videos and music to download on youtube. How can I best speed this up also.

Thanks again.

Wonder how much I would have been charged for that in a pc shop??? I will buy you all beers if we meet up.

 

[Macster]

Reading all of the above reminded me why I went to the Darkside and got a Mac.......

 

[Farneyman]

Reading all of the above reminded me why I went to the Darkside and got a Mac.......

Used macs at Uni and they are pretty good but as you can tell from this thread I know feck all about computers in general. So going from windows to a mac would be like going from bums to breasts. You just cant make that change overnight... I will try an get it sped up a bit first before I think about changing although I probally will get a mac next.

 

[Region3]

Vista is the slowest, most resource-hungry operating system I've ever had the misfortune to use.

Do you know how much RAM you have, and also how big and how much is free on your hard drive?

Your download speed is unlikely to be the fault of the computer, unless there is stuff running that you aren't aware of, that is also using your internet connection.

Do you know what internet download speed you're supposed to be getting, and what you are actually getting?

You can see what is using your computers resources by right-clicking on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, then choose 'start task manager'.

Then click on the processes tab and you can sort the list by CPU and MEMORY to see which processes are using the most of each of those.

Which anti-virus software do you use? Norton imo uses far too much memory.
Do you have any anti-spyware also? If you don't (a lot of people don't) you can get free versions of Spybot, and superantispyware which are both good.

They will hunt out spyware programs (amongst other things) which might slow your system down.

Sorry if that all seems a bit disjointed, I was just typing things as I thought of them.

Good luck... it's a minefield

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Im a PC Engineer

I need to know your machine specs

Click Start, then RIGHT click computer
Click Properties.

Please advise your processor type and all the numbers
and how much RAM you have

Next close those windows

Start, Computer, RIGHT click C Drive, Clicl Properties

How big is your hard drive and roughly how much free space does it have (look at the pie chart and just give me the percentage of Pink)

Then we shall have an idea of what we are dealing with

Cheers

Fragger (Computer Hero To The Gentry)

 

[Farneyman]

Im a PC Engineer

I need to know your machine specs

Click Start, then RIGHT click computer
Click Properties.

Please advise your processor type and all the numbers
and how much RAM you have

Next close those windows

Start, Computer, RIGHT click C Drive, Clicl Properties

How big is your hard drive and roughly how much free space does it have (look at the pie chart and just give me the percentage of Pink)

Then we shall have an idea of what we are dealing with

Cheers

Fragger (Computer Hero To The Gentry)

Here are some of the figures..

Processor: Intel (R) Celeron(R) M CPU 440 @ 1.86GHz 1.87 GHz
Memory (RAM) :894MB
System type: 32-bit operating system



Capacity 69.1GB
Used 49.0GB
Free 20.0 GB

Pie chart looks about 75/25

Hope that helps Fragger.
Cheers