Computer geek needed
01-04-2005, 03:41 PM
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Computer geek needed
When I do ctrl-alt-del sometimes my cpu is running at 100%, and I don't know why. I have my bittorrent app running and firefox and thats about it, shouldn't be doing it because of that. I also turned off hard drive indexing, as that was a problem in the past. What the ---- could be doing this? I hate the fact that there's something going on that I don't know about. And I have no viruses or trojans with Norton running.
01-04-2005, 03:43 PM
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Re:Computer geek needed
I'd guess Adware/Spyware. Download these programs and run them:
HiJackThis
Ad-Aware
Spybot - Search & Destroy
My computer locked up hardcore because of this once, ran these three programs, now run them regularly and I have no problems
HiJackThis
Ad-Aware
Spybot - Search & Destroy
My computer locked up hardcore because of this once, ran these three programs, now run them regularly and I have no problems
01-04-2005, 08:07 PM
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Re:Computer geek needed
What proccesses should be running in the background. My computer was running great then all of a sudden I started getting pop ups. I've ran ad aware and webroot spysweeper which is a program I bought. But I still get pop ups once in a while, but I used to ave none. Also How do I see what porgrams start when I turn on my computer. I know there is a way to disable all the ---- I don't need.
01-04-2005, 08:12 PM
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Re:Computer geek needed
Originally Posted by fork
What proccesses should be running in the background. My computer was running great then all of a sudden I started getting pop ups. I've ran ad aware and webroot spysweeper which is a program I bought. But I still get pop ups once in a while, but I used to ave none. Also How do I see what porgrams start when I turn on my computer. I know there is a way to disable all the ---- I don't need.
start>run>msconfig>startup even if you uncheck some of them will automatically startup again, spyware is ------- gay and the bastards who invented it should be hung by there *********
01-04-2005, 09:00 PM
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Re:Computer geek needed
Originally Posted by biggmike
My answer for all computer problems, REFORMAT! 
.. swap in a new hard drive, reformat the old one and have it ready for a new machine
