My computer is very slow. How to fix this without spending any money?

December 4, 2009

My computer is ridiculously slow. It has no virus, malware or spyware at all because I ran complete scan of antivirus, firewall and antispyware. I also ran the registry cleaner of lavasoft.

I use Avira Antivir classic, Comodo firewall, PC tools Spyware doctor, ad-aware and lavasoft registry cleaner for protection. So if there is no virus, malware or spyware then why is it still so ridiculously slow?

It is an emachines desktop which I purchased in April 2005. It still has windows xp. I am tired of doing computer recovery and re-formatting the hard drive.

I just did the recovery 2 days back. After recovery it is fast but then when 2 to 3 days pass, it again gets very slow.

I talked to emachines technical support and they say i have to add more memory. Why? Why must i add more memory when it is only 3 and a half year old computer?

Can a 3 and a half year old car, have so many problems? Then why PC’s fail after 2 to 3 years only?
i also added a performance enhancer named Boostkit. It is sold by mcafee.

Unfortunately the performance booster also failed. I realize my get wasted. This computer is almost in its grave now.

Can my hard drive be saved?

December 3, 2009

My compy is 4 years old. After uninstalling Linksys software that wasn’t working properly, my computer wouldn’t boot. After doing some research, I believed my boot.ini file had been corrupted (somehow). After booting from diskettes and the chkdsk /r thing, Windows finally booted. But the "Warning: Dell’s Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications…" appeared after restarting.

I tried running a 90/90 diagnostic, but I never got a "drive functional/dysfunctional" message. Only "pass".

I also tried installing the BR64013.exe file. I’m not even sure if that installed properly as I couldn’t exit the program and had to restart using the tower button.

I understand the SMART system is something you should take seriously. But is there anything else I can do to know for sure that my hard drive is done? I take care of my things, and I hate accepting that ONE uninstall as the downfall of my compy.

Thanks! 🙂

How do you do a clean install on a dell 2400 it has windows xp?

November 28, 2009

I have a friend whos dell is full of viruses I rolled back the system to the earliest date and it still wont help ,I was told if you erace the hard drive and re install it would be better than if you just re run the program .Any advice ?

how do I fix windows blue screen errors c0000218 {registry file failure}?

November 25, 2009

My computer (Dell) crashed on me and via Blus Screen diagnostic, I’m getting error code "c0000218 {registry file failure} The registry cannot load hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\config\SOFTWARE or its log ot alternate. It is corrupt, absent or not writeable."

Any ideas what these errors are and how to resolve them? If there is a place for me to look this up, let me know. I haven’t backed up my files in a few weeks, so there are SEVERAL things I need to get off the hard drive!

What can cause windows xp clean install to be very slow, sometimes stall, then continue install?

November 23, 2009

the install is very slow, but is progressing. It has been about 10 hours now. What could cause this? Could it be the hard drive? Should I just wait it out?
I changed the cd rom drive and still same problem