45 minutes after being switched on, my ancient home PC is finally in gear and running the fastest it runs, hooray!
It is still, of course, painfully slow. To load a page you're looking at 2 minutes, maybe 1, if you're lucky.
As for opening more than one program at once, just, er don't. That's simply asking for trouble.
Anyway! This thing was bought in 2002 or something, so I am not here to rant about it. I expect this.
I am here to rant about my piece of crap laptop I bought in July last year for £465.
It was brand new, up to the minute technology (Vista... which deserves a whole other thread or 7 for ranting), Norton anti-virus, blah, blah, blah.
I blame myself for not getting it seen to sooner. For the last 2 months or so it's been sporadically failing to start right, and doing Startup Repair to itself.
But now, the damn thing won't start AT ALL. It's in a perpetual state of fruitless Startup Repair.
Is it really too much to ask, when I hand over all the money that I can possibly scrape together, that I get a machine that WORKS for more than 9 measly months? Is that unreasonable? ARG!
>:(
I would have said "if it's new it's still under warranty" but.. that usually doesn't cover software, which is what sounds like the problem (Damned Vista).
Well, all of them just came with Vista.
I didn't realise just how bad it was, so I went with it.
I just want a basic thing that functions!
I'm pretty sure I don't have any viruses, I have scanned it a few times since it started doing this...
Also, there shouldn't be any charge for repair because we have this maintainence contract with the shop we got it from. (PC World)
So, hopefully, they can fix it today.
And hopefully it will stay fixed, we shall see...
yay, an anti vista thread....
I run vista on 3 computers including work and go figure - it works just fine...
anyways, try booting it up in safe mode (press F8 on prior to the windows splash screen)
then run 'MSCONFIG' and uncheck everything you don't need/want in the startup tab and reboot
if that doesn't work, try running system restore from safe mode (it's in the system tools folder).
Ha, ha shoulda bought a Mac :) Just kidding...
LR
Probably a failing hard drive (let's hope not). Either way, expect it to come back clean and everything you had, gone.
When you get it back, remove Norton and download either AVG Free or Avast Home. They will not slow you down as much, you may also want to look at a memory upgrade (its rather cheap to do). Both will do wonders.