Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

I assume it's running Windows XP - if so I would just download CCleaner and ComboFix and let them do their thing and see if that helps.

Also clean out your crap if you have any. Un-install useless applications and delete useless files.

^:D

reminds me of when i was getting hacked and they kept downloading porn and i had no idea (didnt know much about computers back then)

so mum took it to a computer guy after i got my laptop... so he calls back 3 days later telling my mum to come and take a look at something

5 f**kING THOUSAND PORNOS on my computer....

i copped teh blame but i was like 12... wasnt into teh pornoz back then

they hacked your comp and downloaded porn for you onto your computer when you were 12? wish i had one of those leprechaun's when i was 12...ha. sure it wasn't your dads stash?

nah wouldnt of been my dad....

i suspected it was my cousin downloading one to put it on his phone + a shitload of viruses :)

but yeah.. do any of YOU have 5000 pornos? :P

Man... the amount of client's comps I have fixed due to porn issues is CRAZY.... proabably the most awkward was about a year ago...

a bloke got a laptop from work for his daughter to have as her private comp. BUT there was adobe creative suite 2 license that was bound to the company he worked for and they lost the installer cd's, and they didnt want me to get a copy, so the boss insisted on him keeping the current xp and prefered me to clean everything up.

so I was doing my bits and pieces, start removing old profiles... etc.. says another process using a certain file... I check it out turns out its part of virtual girl ( a desktop hogger that has women undressing with certain AI aspects) thought ok, not tooo bad... keep working... it just got worse from there.. pics... vids... u name it... possibly some highly illegal images aswell...but Im not great with picking ages...

this is where it is really hard for the IT guy.(As I am a network admin I am faced with this stuff alot) do you tell the client what you have found? do you report it to someone with authority in the company? do you contact the police depending on the content? do try to trace back the previous owner?

turns out it was the BOSS'S old laptop... the guy didnt want to say anything because of obvious reasons...so after I slipped in a question about where he got the laptop from... there was this awkward silince after I told the bloke some of what I had found.... lol havent heard a call back from him in a while :)

also... if you are interested... I can help you image your current drive and then format... basiclly means you have an entire backup of the current status of your drive with everything on it that you can return to at a later date if you need.

gl with it.

Adam

ye but if you img and then just dump it all back, its still all cluttered to the shithouse with all the rubbish installs and so on :)

better to save only the stuff you need/want to keep and do a full flush and reinstall and then just copy over the stuff you kept rather than a full img

well depending on the application in the future, I meant more like make an image and get an image explorer... acronis true image and norton ghost both have explorerers... so its basiclly like one big really well compressed zip file that you can always acess and drag and drop out of it what you need. but yeh.. no harm in cleaning out stuff before a backup :D

actually I meant it more for his *ahem* personal data....

Try ccleaner first, then do a full antivirus/adware scan in safe mode. The do a defrag. If this fails do the things below.

Depending on how much data you have you can burn it all to DVD or copy all your data to an external drive, then do a reformat and re-install Windows. This will save time and ensure you have a clean system to start with. Once you install all your drivers and updates do an image to DVD so in future it will be faster to setup.

Another good optional tip is to upgrade your RAM, as Windows and security updates get installed they tend to "bog down" your system, if you are running XP I recommend around 1GB of RAM to be comfortably fast, for Vitsa 4GB is the go. I've run Vista on 2GB and it still seems slow.

depends which version of vista u got, the 32 bit one can only use 3.25 gb of ram, but the 64 bit one can use all 4gb, at least that's what iv herd, and my computer only shows 3.25 gb, a waste of 750 mb of ram,

a good reformat should make your comp faster, and i wouldnt install every useless program or file thats out there, :D

Edited by J3TR33

Im using Vista 64 bit and the only thing i have an issue with is Ventrillo intermittently failing (without a notification)... but its still a dev release i think so all good.

Other than that performance from Vista x64 is 10/10 for me. Mind you I did stop a lot of processes and after the initial install I had background processes under 40 (was over 50 to start), so if you have more than 3 gb of ram you'd be silly to run anything other than x64.

I honestly would transfer, reformat. Don't waste time with scanners and all the other bullshit... end of the day nothing is faster/beats a fresh install... i learnt that the hard way :D

depends which version of vista u got, the 32 bit one can only use 3.25 gb of ram, but the 64 bit one can use all 4gb, at least that's what iv herd, and my computer only shows 3.25 gb, a waste of 750 mb of ram,

Technically that doesn't sound right, at least with server editions of Windows 2000 and 2003 you can have upto 4GB of RAM in a 32-bit without any switches on the boot.ini.

The *problem* is that the split between user and kernel space is 2/2, ie. your applications can only use upto 2GB anyway.

So there is the /3GB switch, in other words a 3/1 split so the OS only gets the last GB.

Finally, to go beyond 4GB on intel (I believe its intel only) based processors there is PAE, last time I checked Windows Vista 32bit supported this out of the box and you don't need to explicitly turn it on like in older versions.

PAE is 36-bit addressing, its effectively a trick but doesn't work on all programs as far as I know...

To summarise I'd still recommend 64bit, but I *hate* technically incorrect data :D

There are various articles on this, http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platf.../pae_os.mspx#EW is one of them.

I honestly would transfer, reformat. Don't waste time with scanners and all the other bullshit... end of the day nothing is faster/beats a fresh install... i learnt that the hard way :D

Scanners will fix it, its hard work and only do it if you have done lots of customisations that you really need to keep.

The first time you do it its going to take you *forever* to get the right mix of programs, and fresh installs are quick :)

depends which version of vista u got, the 32 bit one can only use 3.25 gb of ram, but the 64 bit one can use all 4gb, at least that's what iv herd, and my computer only shows 3.25 gb, a waste of 750 mb of ram, :D

32 bit o/s addresses 4 gb of ram, including your video card memory.

I'd say your graphics card has 750mb...

64bit FTW

And yeah, +1 reformat/reinstall

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • I'm hoping I just don't have to do an engine rebuild NOW. Doesn't mean I won't do it at some point. I think a plus point is that the car presumably ran on or close to stock power nearly all it's life so far. Only the Owner I bought it from actually increased power with a standalone ECU and blew the OEM turbos. And after it got thee 2860s it wasn't driven an awful lot either.   That is what I meant. With the twins coming on so late (4500-5000rpm) I hope the rods won't want to exit the block prematurely. And it still being a 26 means the torque curve isn't gonna hike up all that much.   It didn't blow up on the dyno when they tuned it to 500ish crank. So I suppose it'll be okay for now. They did put a Tomei head gasket on first though which did not seal at all, and they redid it with a Cometic one. Which I hope won't be my water leak.   Mainly anything oil. So far all it has is the N1 pump, oil restrictor and a filter relocation kit with a cooler.
    • 15000? ish? Something like that anyway. It wasn;t so much a wear as a tear that then spread. Might have lasted a lot longer if not bothered by just one incident, whatever it was. I took a punt. They are really comfortable and do a good job of holding. My daughter HATED it when I first put them in, and probably still does now. She has sensory issues and hates the way they are all up your business. I'm 197cm and 95kg. Not fat or particularly wide, and the XL size seat is the rigth fit. If I was any fatter it would start to get too snug. Any skinnier and you'd possibly want the smaller width.
    • Mrs rs focus came factory with recaro cs  sportsters in it and they a pain in the ass to get in and out of with the really high bolsters, once you were in them they were one of the most comfortable seats I have ever sat in
    • The NA 2.5 has very little torque. You won't feel much. Those trannies are also a million years old now and it could well be f**ked. First generation electronically controlled autos will often refuse to kick down, ete, etc, depending on what's wrong with them.
    • Yes, but no but yes but no. Those "it's fine up to 500HP" rules and everything else like it were all determined back when the cars were 10 years old. As they are now 30 years old.....what do you reckon the chances of something shitting the bed are? I'd say they are much higher now than they used to be. You might be lucky. You might be unlucky. Spin the wheel and find out. Yeah, nah. It's actually exactly the opposite. Making boost early and having heaps of torque able to be generated right in the middle of the rev range will do more to damage an engine than having to rev it high to make the power. Think about the load on the conrods, bearings, etc, to make 400HP at 4000 rpm, vs 400 HP at 6500 rpm. So someone has already "let the Nissan out" which is how we describe the increased chance of a fiddled with engine to have had something done wrongly. Many more engines that have been opened die than stock ones do - even if you into consideration how they are treated wrt power levels and the like. Again, not saying that yours will definitely have been put back together by a moron. But the possibility does exist. It's still a lottery. Spin the wheel. What weakspots?
×
×
  • Create New...