Comments | platini: Hasta La Vista

platini

Hasta La Vista

Feb 29, 2008 14:54

Dang it, I need a new computer. My existing home PC is sort of knackered - the internet access is particularly bad as it shuts down randomly, won't let me see anything on several sites at all, and freezes up without warning. I can send email from Outlook Express, but I can't receive it - although I can access the same web address via the web and ( Read more... )

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hawkida February 29 2008, 15:18:49 UTC

Why not just install XP again and start from scratch on your current machine if it's just that the OS is acting up?

platini March 3 2008, 13:29:32 UTC

Hi,

Because I don't think I've got the backup CD any more. The machine's probably five years old at least and I've moved (maybe twice) since I bought it. Plus I'm not sure whether it's Windows or Internet Explorer. Most of the other stuff (Word, games) works more or less fine. But the email is next to useless, and it's not the email account that's at fault. The net randomly shutting, freezing and showing blank screens for perfectly ordinary sites is a total pain. (Oddly, when I look at the HTML Source for these mysteriously blank pages, that coding indicates there's no content there - when I know there is.)

Did I mention it won't let me do a System Restore either?

epideme February 29 2008, 19:28:43 UTC

What hawkida said. Plus this line worries me:
I suspect I've picked up a virus somewhere

What does your anti-virus reckon? If you have no confidence in your anti-virus, then try another package (worth doing as different AVs pick up different virii somethimes)

I recommend either AVG or Avast as free avs and Spyware doctor as a minimum protection.

platini March 3 2008, 13:29:03 UTC

My Norton has lapsed. I'd been having increasing trouble with Norton on another computer; disabling it and installing AVS in its place basically killed it. That one won't let me access secure sites at all - I can browse Amazon but I can't buy anything - and, more intriguingly, something won't let me update AVS! That's another computer I'm going to have to replace....

epideme March 3 2008, 15:33:00 UTC

Chuck Norton out the window. It's foul.

try: http://www.avast.com/ or
http://free.grisoft.com/

tizzle_b March 2 2008, 16:44:05 UTC

Vista

I've got a PC with an XP > Vista upgrade and a laptop with a first time installation of Vista on it and neither have given me any problems.

Well I tell a lie; one windows update did cause the laptop to fail in startup but a simple recovery-thingy was all it took to fix that.