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Figgy said:

Slow to boot, open programs? Does it run ok once the desktop is up for a bit? What antivirus/malware software you running? How old is the HDD?

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It's a Lenovo about 15 mos. old, it runs fine once it's on it's just going from sleep to wake.
Also when I start up it doesn't show the "Lenovo" logo with the little circle thing going round.
I'm running McAfee with the crappy windows firewall.
Also I'm on FIOS network if that means anything.

Download and run malwarebytes. That should help.

I use Avast Anti virus... it's free and works great.

Good luck getting it clean with the kids' shitty programs on there.

Also CCleaner is another free program that works wonders.

jigfresh said:

Also CCleaner is another free program that works wonders.

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Thanks jig.

Figgy said:

Do y'all happen to be Steelers fans?

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For life. Respect to other winnin teams though. Had a very ruff few years for my team...if you watch you really know what I'm sayin.

oldman60 said:

It's a Lenovo about 15 mos. old, it runs fine once it's on it's just going from sleep to wake.
Also when I start up it doesn't show the "Lenovo" logo with the little circle thing going round.
I'm running McAfee with the crappy windows firewall.
Also I'm on FIOS network if that means anything.

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Try booting into "safe mode". Isolate the problem. Like some said what programs? You can disable all non essential start up programs after booting into safe mode. In safemode run: msconfig

Windows 10? Try disabling the virus software? Uninstall all weird named programs. CC cleaner and ad adware? Continue till you are running like butter I hope. Just what I would try off the top of my head.

oldman60 said:

If it goes to sleep mode it won't come back up. Also has got real slow, I think it has a virus
both my wife and granddaughter do a lot of surfing and gaming.
So I cold booted it just to get it running tonight but it's been getting worse.
Any ideas? I'm computer illiterate so I was going to get one of those cleaner sticks and
see if that helps.

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I use a site called Major Geeks to solve my PC probs. Sounds like you may have some dodgy Registry keys hanging around. Unless your laptop sounds like a Coffee perculatro, in which case the hard drive is slowly dying. Check how much available memory you have as well, sometime good to clear caches or like the other say, run CCleaner or other such programmes. Majors Geeks has some....major geeks who love to help you out.

Great news everyone I've been so excited about the news I forgot to post! Fire inspector found the start of the fire. Builder seemed to of knocked out some type of hole for a gas burning fireplace...but ours was wood? Seems the hole wasnt supposed to be there and even slipped through the house inspections when sold.


Even though we used it so long ago the inspector said it was like a ticking time bomb and could of happened to anyone.


We used the fireplace only 8 times in the time frame of 9/27/15 to 3/16/16 (almost 8 months) which each time I operated my fireplace some embers may fallen in and worked its way to the "mud flap" on the fireplace foundation.


Once it reached there it could of been glowing and working that area till finally it ignited that piece of wood that had the bolts on it thats missing cause it went first.


In conclusion he found the heat marks I guess that left pattern that gave him details how the fire was moving up.


.....I was starting to think there wasn't enough weed I could grow and smoke that can help with the amount of blame I was holding on to. Wasn't able to touch a thing without tears running down my face finding things in the ashes this morning.



Sigh ....just got The Division the day before the fire after waiting since the announcement of this game. Fire couldn't wait for me to beat it I guess.

oldman60 said:

It's a Lenovo about 15 mos. old, it runs fine once it's on it's just going from sleep to wake.
Also when I start up it doesn't show the "Lenovo" logo with the little circle thing going round.
I'm running McAfee with the crappy windows firewall.
Also I'm on FIOS network if that means anything.

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Just would like to add my 2 cents to this thread, I went through the exact same thing but only with the Grandaughter downloading crap, my wife, thank God, has her own laptop/desktop/tablet/smartphone.

My Granddaughter downloaded limewire and screwed up my laptop. But this was when I was running Vista as my OS.

You have 2 options, 1) do a hard reset (you lose all your personal files any new programs you added since you got your puter) this of course is quick and painless, or 2) recover your wanted files but this requires lots of time.

You can do a hard reset by just clicking the F8 key and follow the onscreen instruction for hard reset. But if you want to recover your files hold down shift key + restart that will put you into safe mode. Choose safe mode with networking and do online scans from Kaspersky, or any online scans. Download Malwarebytes...it was mentioned by a member here, great to have and keep it on your 'puter don't get rid of it. I use Spybot search and destroy and Superantispyware, both good and of course free. A good free antivirus that also was mentioned here is Avast, they also have a paid version that works well but what the hay, I like the free stuff that works too. CC Cleaners I stay away from and here's why.

CC Cleaners are just mindless drones that get rid of files that are seldom used to gain space and speed your system up but if a program that you seldom use needs to run, it will have been deleted from the registry causing an imbalance of that program. Putting it another way say you have a building with 10 families that building runs your iTunes and Pokerstars (does it exist anymore?) now you run the ccleaner to get rid of unwanted files it 'sees' you don't use Pokerstars anymore so it got rid of it but it gets rid of the building not the file so now the file for iTunes is gone too, it's better to do a file compression to make up 'space' but if you need to get rid of a corrupted file from the registry but that's nowhere land, you screw up in the registry and bye bye 'puter. Good luck.

On another note:

@Zspy1985 my prayers are with you and Family bro and making a donation to your fund, God Bless.

B4L

Thank you!! Like its crazy how hard is to get ahead sometimes in this thing called life... I can't believe it still. Not sure if I mentioned it but at least 6 months on the repair the emergency contactor said. Landlord said we are welcome to come back after the repairs are finished.

Zspy1985 said:

Thank you!! Like its crazy how hard is to get ahead sometimes in this thing called life... I can't believe it still. Not sure if I mentioned it but at least 6 months on the repair the emergency contactor said. Landlord said we are welcome to come back after the repairs are finished.

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Hey no problem, I can't even imagine what you're going through right now. At least you and you're family are ok and that's what matters the rest can be rebuilt, but just like the mythical Phoenix you will rise from the ashes and be twice as strong of that I have no doubt. At least you will be able to go back once the repairs are done that's a relief. I have many friends in the Pittsburgh area I'm on the other end of the state from you up in the mountains, Poconos. My wife just walked in from work (she's a nurse) and I told her about what happened so she's also donating and we're going to bring it up at Church tomorrow, God Bless you be strong.

B4L

Id just do a system restore to when she wasnt wankered.

Blunted 4 lyfe said:

Hey no problem, I can't even imagine what you're going through right now. At least you and you're family are ok and that's what matters the rest can be rebuilt, but just like the mythical Phoenix you will rise from the ashes and be twice as strong of that I have no doubt. At least you will be able to go back once the repairs are done that's a relief. I have many friends in the Pittsburgh area I'm on the other end of the state from you up in the mountains, Poconos. My wife just walked in from work (she's a nurse) and I told her about what happened so she's also donating and we're going to bring it up at Church tomorrow, God Bless you be strong.

B4L

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Thanks Blunt thats really amazing thank you! Pittsburg CA or Pittsburgh PA? We live in the east bay area. I hope we can turn this around and get covered under the lack of things that happened with the fireplace. Worth a shot. We have our lives and that is what matters over everything that happened.

I need to get down to Disneyland ASAP!!!! LOL! Life is too short to be going nuts over things that is out of your control you could after being alive and safe.

I grew up in the church and I turned away after my parents passed. Soon after I was a young tween being forced to go to church. Was ruff trying to make my own decisions at 13 on what I wanted in life.

I'll go to church with the wife when I want to make her happy and go as a family. I'll sit and listen. As a kid I listened but messed around a lot ..like any kid lol. As I grew older and leaving the church behind as I associated the abuse with it made me a very cold lonely person.

Mom was also actually very involved and ran a food bank drive that I remember as a kid for the church. I'll gladly go with my wife this Sunday after this week.

God loves you....trust and believe in him.


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theslipperbandit said:

Id just do a system restore to when she wasnt wankered.

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But that will only work if he had set a set point, which he didn't because he did say he knew nothing about 'puters you have to have some knowledge of 'puters to make a set point.

The best thing going right now, and I make sure I do, is an image backup of my my 'c' drive to the cloud their free just google it. Never have to worry about losing data ever again.

B4L

Zspy1985 said:

Thanks Blunt thats really amazing thank you! Pittsburg CA or Pittsburgh PA? We live in the east bay area. I hope we can turn this around and get covered under the lack of things that happened with the fireplace. Worth a shot. We have our lives and that is what matters over everything that happened.

I need to get down to Disneyland ASAP!!!! LOL! Life is too short to be going nuts over things that is out of your control you could after being alive and safe.

I grew up in the church and I turned away after my parents passed. Soon after I was a young tween being forced to go to church. Was ruff trying to make my own decisions at 13 on what I wanted in life.

I'll go to church with the wife when I want to make her happy and go as a family. I'll sit and listen. As a kid I listened but messed around a lot ..like any kid lol. As I grew older and leaving the church behind as I associated the abuse with it made me a very cold lonely person.

Mom was also actually very involved and ran a food bank drive that I remember as a kid for the church. I'll gladly go with my wife this Sunday after this week.

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Sometimes it takes a life changing episode to bring someone back to the fold of the lord, we are all his children and gave us talent to grow his weed too, lord knows many folks need his wonder 'drug'! I do!

I read it wrong I read Pittsburg and I assumed Pa. Doesn't matter you're still a person in need does not change anything. In due time all of this will be just a sad chapter in your life but you will bounce back stronger than ever you'll see.

I'm not heavy into the Church scene myself, but I go often enough to be in touch with many great folks that go.


B4L

BTW we have a tv show locally that helps those with computer problems but they have a website that anyone can use:

Computerwisetv.com

You can download free stuff from their website, but the most important one is the security guide make that the first thing you do. Hope this helps.

B4L

Bored with it....back into the greenhouse it goes until it gets another chance lol.

2 weeks today although pics are from yesterday. Just gave them a spray with some organic foliar feed. Has silica among other things. Helps prevent pm and other nasties. Been using it for last 12 months and had no issues.



It took me a week but finally got the new bulbs in as well.....working to Spanish time at the moment lol.
Peace DST