Techie Help Wanted

18 Apr 2006

On one of my PC's used soley for downloading has started running slow so I've had a play with it and found the RAM is always streched to full capacaty it has half a gig of ram fitted.
My first thought was memory leakage but it's a constant problem that starts as soon as I boot
up, so I've restarted in safe mode and all is well untill I restart in normal then its full again.
I've used MSCONFIG and closed all pointless programmes that run from start up but it's still fooked.
So my mind tells me Virus :shock: (my first ever one I'm so proud) now norton can't find it so I need a safe online fix I think all sugestions are more than welcome. smile

18 Apr 2006

sheddy try this it restores all your bho settings system internals ect ect i run it at the mo and does work quite well

its worth a try wink

:wink:
mr and mrs dpg xxxx (mrs)

18 Apr 2006

watch this Sheddy, advice without piss taking :shock:
first off, can you swap the ram stick with another machine to check if there's a hardware fault (rare, i know, but worth checking)
have you checked the size of virtual memory allocation, defragged drive, cleaned cookies and done all the general tidyup stuff including checking your hard drive for errors (as this could cause a possible bottleneck swapping data round)
if you need an online virus checker, try

18 Apr 2006

Quote by meat2pleaseu
watch this Sheddy, advice without piss taking :shock:
first off, can you swap the ram stick with another machine to check if there's a hardware fault (rare, i know, but worth checking)
have you checked the size of virtual memory allocation, defragged drive, cleaned cookies and done all the general tidyup stuff including checking your hard drive for errors (as this could cause a possible bottleneck swapping data round)
if you need an online virus checker, try

I've swopped the ram and increased virtual memory and done all the usual stuff but it's got me beat sad

Next step is an online scan after I've recoverd from the shock off no piss taking lol

18 Apr 2006

This is a guaranteed cure with no doubts...... will be running sweet as a nut after. As soon as mine fluffs up I hit this...

Good luck......
Mike

18 Apr 2006

Thanks all biggrin

I'm just about to scan it with in an inch of its life so I hope it gets sorted cool

18 Apr 2006

an improvement on boring us to within an inch of ours rolleyes

18 Apr 2006

Quote by meat2pleaseu
an improvement on boring us to within an inch of ours

I knew you being nice to me wouldn't last sad

18 Apr 2006

Sheddy Darlin ............. this is a bit techy but you need to ......
Kick it with a big boot :giggle: works for me everytime
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

18 Apr 2006

Quote by blonde
Sheddy Darlin ............. this is a bit techy but you need to ......
Kick it with a big boot :giggle: works for me everytime
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

:doh: Now why didn't I think of that redface

Right I've sorted it biggrin

:D :D :D :D
Scanned it with everything I can get my hands on and all is good, so thankyou to all :thumbup:

18 Apr 2006

Quote by blonde
Sheddy Darlin ............. this is a bit techy but you need to ......
Kick it with a big boot :giggle: works for me everytime
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is this what they term "Re Booting" biggrin

18 Apr 2006

Quote by blonde
Sheddy Darlin ............. this is a bit techy but you need to ......
Kick it with a big boot :giggle: works for me everytime
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is this what they term "Re Booting" biggrin

18 Apr 2006

Quote by heystev
Sheddy Darlin ............. this is a bit techy but you need to ......
Kick it with a big boot :giggle: works for me everytime
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is this what they term "Re Booting" biggrin

I dont know .............. I am not at all Techy ........... it could be where the term re-boot came from I dunno
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

18 Apr 2006

It could also be due to having Spyware being installed on your computer......its usually very hard to spot......there are a lot of programs on the net that you can dowload to get rid of them if thats the case......

18 Apr 2006

I don't know but 512M of ram doesn't sound like an awful lot to me but if you've closed down all the non-essential progs ... could it be that you need to defrag your hard drive?
cool

18 Apr 2006

Quote by mike48
This is a guaranteed cure with no doubts...... will be running sweet as a nut after. As soon as mine fluffs up I hit this...

Good luck......
Mike

Bloody show off
:giggle:
Works a treat... running like new everytime I use it!! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

19 Apr 2006

Quote by meat2pleaseu
watch this Sheddy, advice without piss taking :shock:
first off, can you swap the ram stick with another machine to check if there's a hardware fault (rare, i know, but worth checking)
have you checked the size of virtual memory allocation, defragged drive, cleaned cookies and done all the general tidyup stuff including checking your hard drive for errors (as this could cause a possible bottleneck swapping data round)
if you need an online virus checker, try

thanks meat ran this program when you posted the link took 4 hours to scan and found a load of crap that all the others didnt now computer seems to be running faster and better :thumbup: wink

mr and mrs dpg xxxx