Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / PC problem, can anyone help?

Author
Message
Screwed Over
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2006
Location: nowhere and everywhere
Posted: 24th Feb 2007 15:12
Link
my pc is messing up, constantly i have to reboot about 5 times for the desktop to load, and often several more times to get things like msn and zonealarm to open before my pc freezes, can anyone help me with this? (keeping in mind i dont want to reinstall windows) and i run on win2k proffesional.


[b]"Its not my fault you're noob, its yours!!"[b]
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Benjamin
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 24th Feb 2007 16:25
Link
Sounds like a problem I had a while back. When I logged onto Windows, if I tried to display the connections menu everything would freeze and I had to reset the PC manually, and then several times after that the desktop would start up frozen, which was annoying. I seem to remember Zonealarm causing certain system instabilities at the time, and this was probably what caused it with me.

Tempest (DBP/DBCe)
Multisync V1 (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
UnderLord
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Aug 2003
Location:
Posted: 24th Feb 2007 18:28
Link
does windows 2k have a recovery console that you can boot up-to like in xp pro? because if so, then just go to the recovery console and type chkdsk /r that seemed to work for me =P buti had to do it several times it will try and recover bad sectors as well as data.

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Back to top
Profile PM
Screwed Over
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2006
Location: nowhere and everywhere
Posted: 24th Feb 2007 22:07
Link
im not sure, it would help if i knew what that was =S i can boot with "last known good configuration" which it will boot properley but as soon as i reboot it happens again.


[b]"Its not my fault you're noob, its yours!!"[b]
Back to top
Profile PM Email
GatorHex
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Apr 2005
Location: Gunchester, UK
Posted: 25th Feb 2007 00:18 Edited at: 25th Feb 2007 03:41
Link
Check you have free hard drive space on drive C:

If it runs out of space for the swap file it will struggle to load.

I recommend having 1Gb of free space on C: for a happy system.

http://www.KumKie.com http://bulldog.servegame.com
Back to top
Profile PM Website
TFE
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Oct 2005
Location: Sweden
Posted: 25th Feb 2007 01:30
Link
I recommend at least 10% free hard drive space, check for spyware, adware and malware with spybot: search and destroy, make a virus scan, defrag disk, make a registry repair with som tool (there is hundreds) be careful though, use TRUSTED stuff. (I think the online service on the new windows live network should do it too)

best of luck!

http://moreTFE.150m.com/ (not very beautiful yet, but soon... hehe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
GatorHex
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Apr 2005
Location: Gunchester, UK
Posted: 25th Feb 2007 03:44 Edited at: 25th Feb 2007 03:47
Link
I think the official recommendation for swapfile space required from Microsoft is something like 2x the RAM.

You can recover a lot of hard drive space normaly by going into Internet Explorer and clicking

Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete Files -> Delete all offline content.

I did this for somone once and it took the best part of a day to clear their web cache!!

http://www.KumKie.com http://bulldog.servegame.com
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Screwed Over
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jul 2006
Location: nowhere and everywhere
Posted: 25th Feb 2007 12:45
Link
i've done all that, my hard disk is on 2 partitions, i have 3gb spare room on the windows installed partition out of 18gb, and the other part of my hard disk has 34gb free out of 56gb, ive also ran adaware SE to find all problems and got rid of that, deleted cookies, and offline contant, but nothing makes a diifference.


[b]"Its not my fault you're noob, its yours!!"[b]
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-18 07:41:45
Your offset time is: 2024-11-18 07:41:45