How to clean my computer thouroughly without formatting?

October 22, 2009

Ok, so my computer has been running pretty raggedy latly and i had just a bunch of junk on it. I run antivirus that updates regularly, i have spyware scans i do regularly, i do everything you can. I run zone alarm. So i just deleted a lot of things, but how can i clean memory and remove pointless things that are just acting as clutter? What else can i do other than completly formatting to help my computer.
Yes, i defrag like every 4 weeks or so. I delete everything i run scandisk everything is fine. But it jsut runs slow not like it should to my standards at least. Is there a way to clean windows or clean memory or do something to kind of refresh it? For some reason i jsut think my windows operating system is a clutter from all the stuff i download. I just think it should be performing better

expert help needed computer freezes on web searches?

September 29, 2009

for example if I go to www.wikipedia.com it works. If i do a search on yahoo, google, etc and then try to go it does nothing just freezes and I have to reboot. This goes for any website or search I try to perform. No error messages just freezes up.

I have done spyware, malware, clean registry etc, cache, firewall turn off, run mcafee and windows programs reinstall etc. Please I need something more! Is this a virus? what else could it be? Everything else with the computer is fine not slow plenty of memory etc. Just the prob with the search.

I want to wipe my hard drive without losing Windows…?

September 16, 2009

I have an older Dell Latitude & I have been having a lot of problems with it. I have WipeDrive v5, but I’m worried if I run this I will lose Windows XP. I can’t find my Windows software either. I don’t understand how these programs work, but I’m tired of my computer running slow, having network problems, etc. I’ve upgraded the memory, and there’s more than plenty available for processes. I have to use a wireless card, which is new, and I know my router/signal is fine, because my other laptop works fine. Also, there’s 2 diagonal lines of keys on my keyboard that don’t type the letters & my mouse likes to go up to the corner of the screen & when I try to move it back down, it takes off away from me again. I need some computer advice, please! I don’t have money to take it for repairs, but I don’t want to make it any worse.

Hello XP Experts! Windows XP problem? please help?

September 13, 2009

My computer started showing some problems like "could not read memory from"—– something it shows blue caption with white words saying win xp has stopped working due to some problem. Sometimes it does not boot properly close and starts many times. I tried to repair it with windows cd but few files were not copied saying these are corrupt. I formatted it and and installed fresh xp then I went to Microsoft site to updated. After downloading few files it restarted and again behaving as it was doing before I installed new Xp. My earlier xp installation worked for 9 months. Please help what to do. How to solve this. Is there free software that can repair Xp? What are the indications if RAM is not working properly

How do you fix a slow computer?

September 9, 2009

It has over 50% of its memory free… but still really really slow… what else should i check?? Is there something else i am missing??