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The hell is wrong with my laptop?
Aoi Tsuki
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I have a two-year-old Dell Inspiron, running Vista. It's always worked great, except for occasional keyboard finickiness and then a flickering screen the past couple of months; the keyboard got better, but the screen needed to be replaced. So I replaced it at a local repair shop, and all was well for, oh, a week.
Then I got online one day after work, tried to toodle around on LJ, and boom! Everything froze. My computer locked up tighter than a very tight thing. I had to forcibly shut the damn thing off by holding down the power button.
Ever since, no matter what I try to do - writing, looking through my art folders, surfing the 'Net - my computer will inevitably stall, the cursor will go spinny to indicate it's thinking about something, and that'll be it till I shut the damn thing off. Then I turn it back on, wait for it to right itself for about ten minutes, and...it'll lock up again in minutes.
If it's a sudden worm or virus attack, it's one AVG and Windows Defender haven't caught. I haven't been porning or opening suspicious e-mails or doing anything else particularly stupid in the past couple of weeks that'd bring that kind of thing down on my head. I do know that the laptop guys who put in the new screen installed a couple of what look like defragging programs; our only theory at this point is that they're the culprit, but I have no idea how. It locks up every time I try Add or Remove Programs to take them out. :?
Thoughts?
Then I got online one day after work, tried to toodle around on LJ, and boom! Everything froze. My computer locked up tighter than a very tight thing. I had to forcibly shut the damn thing off by holding down the power button.
Ever since, no matter what I try to do - writing, looking through my art folders, surfing the 'Net - my computer will inevitably stall, the cursor will go spinny to indicate it's thinking about something, and that'll be it till I shut the damn thing off. Then I turn it back on, wait for it to right itself for about ten minutes, and...it'll lock up again in minutes.
If it's a sudden worm or virus attack, it's one AVG and Windows Defender haven't caught. I haven't been porning or opening suspicious e-mails or doing anything else particularly stupid in the past couple of weeks that'd bring that kind of thing down on my head. I do know that the laptop guys who put in the new screen installed a couple of what look like defragging programs; our only theory at this point is that they're the culprit, but I have no idea how. It locks up every time I try Add or Remove Programs to take them out. :?
Thoughts?
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I would consider trying to uninstall what you feel like you need to uninstall while in safe mode. If that doesn't work.. well my rec. is to get a fresh new install of windows on your machine. That usually fixes things.
Oh, and make it windows 7, vista is not so good.
I suppose Windows 7 would be cheaper than a new laptop, so! How do I go about that (legally, of course)? Is eBay at all feasible, or should I just go right to fellating Microsoft?
I would purchase a copy from newegg before ebay or M$.
Also you might want to consider picking up a different AV other then AVG. Avast or NOD32 are quite happening programs that both do a wonderful job, personally I use NOD32 as its a bit more friendly with my system resources.
http://www.avast.com/index
http://www.eset.com/
A\However before you do that I'd do two things, first download this: http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and install it and run a scan in safe mode (with network prompt because you will need to update the definitions).
And secondly I'd take a gander at your task manager and see if theres something thats hammering your resources, even having it set to sort by CPU draw and keeping it open in the background on top of everything while your dicking around to get it to freeze might shed some light on whats causing things to freeze up.