The Grandpa Computer

[Caius]

My computer isn't that old. But it works as old.

Its tooking me a lot of time to enter to see the Welcome screen, and Im getting annoyed. What the hell is going on? Some virus? Some HD damaged?

[Charge]

If you have this since you've got your comp, then no it is hardware.
If not, probably OS reinstalling would be helpful..

[CrossLOPER]

I'm assuming you have a Windows OS.

Firstly, give us some specs. Type "dxdiag.exe" (without the quotes) in the "run" box and give me everything you see on the first page. Like Charge said, if you had this computer for a while you may experience slowdowns, especially at start-up. Sometimes, new computers experience this as well.

It could also be that you have too many programs starting up all at once when you start your computer. Type "msconfig" (again, without the quotes) into the run box and see what you have starting up. If you see something you don't need, un-check it and see what happens. If you do not know what should and should not run, ask first.

OS reinstall and total recovery should only be used as a last resort. Alternatively, if you have changed the settings in some way, you could always return to a system restore point when you machine worked better. Again, if you do not know what you are doing, ask first.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Run a virus check with Avast! and a Spyware check with Spybot Search & Destroy. (Links in the sticky thread.) Do them in safe mode, with the Administrator account. To do that, disable the welcome screen so that it asks you with which account to log on.
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[Caius]

Thank you guys for the help. I've made that thing of the msconfig. I iwll download Avast! and Spybot blahblahblah now.

[Caius]

Back to square 1. Its still working weird.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Computers generally get slow on bootup and stuff if you keep them going without regular maintainence such as defragging and removing junk that is no longer needed.

It can also be down to how much space is on your HD. I generally try and keep 10GB free on my main HD, because if i go over the 10GB mark, it slowly goes to hell. Random crashes, 5 minute boot times, all sorts of joyous things.

[CrossLOPER]

Go ahead and defragment the HDD and free up some space. I can't think of anything else right now.

[Caius]

It's good if ScanDisk stops at 36%?

[CrossLOPER]

It's good if ScanDisk stops at 36%?

Did it STOP, or does it just look like it stopped? ScanDisk needs time. However, if it is taking more than three hours, there may be an issue.

Leave it for at least five hours. If it hangs, restart. There may be a hardware issue if this is the case.

[Caius]

Did it STOP, or does it just look like it stopped? ScanDisk needs time. However, if it is taking more than three hours, there may be an issue.

I should do this completly, it SEEMED it stop.

[Caius]

Dang. I have made everything.

And the guy of the tech service reinstalls Windows and the problem is sorted

Anyway, thank you with the help in the matter.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Speaking of defragmenting, I have a question. Will defragmenting my hard drive keep my old files and programs in their proper structure, etc.?

I'm fairly sure I know how to defragment, but I, who has built a computer from scratch, has never defragmented a hard drive. Anything I should be aware of? How often should I defragment?

[Caius]

Regular defragmentation should be done. I dont know of any missing file by using the program.

To make a good defrag, you need the 15% of your HD space free.

[CrossLOPER]

Speaking of defragmenting, I have a question. Will defragmenting my hard drive keep my old files and programs in their proper structure, etc.?

I'm fairly sure I know how to defragment, but I, who has built a computer from scratch, has never defragmented a hard drive. Anything I should be aware of? How often should I defragment?

To my knowledge, everything will remain as is. The location of the files on the actual hard drive will be the only thing that is change. I have never noticed anything go wrong when defragmenting.

[TevashSzat]

Regular defragmentation should be done. I dont know of any missing file by using the program.

To make a good defrag, you need the 15% of your HD space free.

Really? Because I have about 25% of my partition available and it barely defrags at all. I get about a 1% improvement every time I defrag