Computer Repairs In Se Suburbs

[Lil_Lucky]

Hey peeps, my computer is giving me trouble lately, jus running slow etc. Its not too old, say 2.5years.

Does any body know of somwhere/someone taht can help 'clean up' my pc? I have know idea about this stuff!

Cheers

[R31Nismoid]

I could do it for a couple of slabs or something?

Its really not too hard... just time consuming more than anything else.

A good reformat is usually the best fix.

[Lil_Lucky]

sounds good to me, mate. Pm me your number and we can sort out something hopefully

[krzysiu]

Easy fix man, bring it to my joint and we will fix it.

[rh1n0]

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.

[eMsta]

before you take the pc to anywhere, remove all porn out of it

[Mohsen]

^

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

[(B1) MR_fanny]

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?

[Lil_Lucky]

not my porn stash!!!!! yeah i mite take u up on that offer kris

[Mohsen]

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?

[WYTSKY]

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

[R31Nismoid]

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

[WYTSKY]

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

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

[iseekool]

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.

[J3TR33]

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,

Edited January 25, 2009 by J3TR33

[R31Nismoid]

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

[some_cs_student]

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

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

[some_cs_student]

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

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

[krzysiu]

not my porn stash!!!!! yeah i mite take u up on that offer kris

Just give me a buzz whenever your free

[chrissso]

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,

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