can someone please help. I’m running Windows XP Pro, it freezes up every so often and I have to hard reset it. When it restarts, it tells me that it’s running scandisc on my F: drive (slave). The software I have won’t tell me anything. I have AVG, Advanced Windows Care, Abexo Free Registry Cleaner and I use the standard Win Defragmenter. Before anyone says, I prefer these Programmes and there aren’t any conflicts because i’ve checked. Any other suggestions would be welcome. Thankyou.
No matter how many proggrammes i run or what i am doing it freezes at least twice a day my f: drive is for files like videos (all of which have been checked with avg) so no. other than that io cant think of anything else

I’m continuing this question I had, because I haven’t figured out.

I have gotten rid of a few virus, and spyware/malware stuff. Spybot, Adaware, and AVG have done their part. I installed Eusing registry cleaner … and it cleaned it up good.

I had this problem before I did these things, it’s the only thing I haven’t figured out the remedy to. Ok, it’s freezing at startup. IT was freezing both at start, and at shutdown. Now, I have run those programs and PC-Doctor 5 and it didn’t show anything wrong with the graphics, motherboard, etc. I did all the tests.

What do I do next. How do I determine what it is next?

Thanks, I’ll award an answer!

My windows partition on my macbook pro was playing up (unexpected restarts, blue screen of death then a restart, stuff like that) i tried using a file registry cleaner and it found problems with my registry every 5 minutes.This certainly wasnt due to a virus because i had antivirus software (AVG) and the only sites i went on were ones to get software such as skype and itunes. So i reinstalled windows, reinstalled all the games and all the software, just one day after the reinstall it gave me the blue screen of death again, any ideas? because im entirely out of them. 🙁

P.S. ive also tried to repair this disk both with the mac ‘Disk utility’ and after restarts windows starts a disk repair thing too, neither seem to have had any impact.
Thanks in advance any help is appreciated.

I scan with both AVG & Malware and they both say they have cleaned,healed and moved to virus vault this infection but it keeps coming back. It has disabled my MIscrosoft security center for any updates and its seems to be in the registry. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPREICATED–GOING BONKERS!!!!!

I have a laptop and a desktop PC (vista and XP respectively). In the past 1 – 2 months, they both seem to run significantly slower. In particular, surfing the internet is very slow; loading pages can take minutes or not load at all. Reloading a page sometimes helps. This occurs regardless of the browser used ( I have used IE, firefox and chrome, all with the same result).

I have done the following and nothing has helped:
– run a registry cleaner
– run AVG and Adaware anti-virus and anti-malware programs
– cleaned the hard drives and defrag’d them
– ensured I have more than 500 mb space on the "C" drives (I have plenty of space)
– removed non-essential programs from auto start up
– verified the speed of my internet connection

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.