Re: [PCWorks] Computer is too slow
- From: Peter Kaulback <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:09:04 -0500
Larry when you boot the laptop there should be a system restore message
that should say something like "press CTRL + F11" but you should not do
this until after all the data on the drive is backed up otherwise the
restore will wipe it all away. I did it once on a work laptop, you don't
want to do it.
And if there is a "Drivers" folder then do back that up as well.
If there is no "press CTRL + F11", then you will have to contact Dell
and try to get the restore disk set, it's 2 or 3 discs. If that doesn't
work then your neighbour gets to buy XP.
I might have suggested Linux as an option but since your neighbour uses
Quickbooks, that rules out Linux, it just drives me nutty when I try
that out. Just a thought.
Peter Kaulback
> Nope no mapped drive. Wish I did though.
> Thanks
> LarryB
> K & L Electronics
> South Carolina
>
> Ben Moore wrote:
>
>> You don't have a mapped network drive do you? Just a thought.
>>
>> I agree with Peter. Copy all the data somewhere and reformat. You can fool
>> with it forever and never figure it out. The laptop would probably profit
>> with a new install anyway.
>>
>> Ben Moore
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of LarryB
>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:15 PM
>> To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [PCWorks] Computer is too slow
>>
>> Thanks Hugh, I have run all the spyware, antivir*s programs I have and
>> they have found things but hasn't helped so far. As I mentioned I have
>> the startup programs to a bare minimum. I have also run defrag, and chkdsk.
>> The Event Viewer shows one error during startup called "service control
>> manager" then about 10 "information" tags after the error.
>> It also shows several DHCP type "warnings" that are probably due to the
>> wireless setup.
>> I have no idea what to do with any of these.
>>
>> LarryB
>> K & L Electronics
>> South Carolina
>
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