oi what you doing here

ZTD

elantan wrote: »

hey taxi you ok hun?

well yes it was a productive talk ...but then yesterday i nearly had a wobble ...my laptop is old and knackered and keeps freezing on me etc ...so i was looking at buying a new one ...dell had one with £555 off (still £900 though) so i spoke tonephew who said it was a great buy and i should go for it phoned dell they were gonna give me 1 years interest free to buy it phoned hubby he said well yeah you know our money situation if you think we can afford it go for it

That's exceedingly expensive - this one was only £300.

First thing to try, is sweep your computer free of malware.
Second thing is a complete reinstall. You'll be amazed how much quicker it'll go after that.

elantan

z i have re formatted de fragged ....spyware malaware norton and macafeed it ...i think the truth of the fact is it is old now ...everytime i load up msn the thing freezes and crashes infact almost every program i run freezes and crashes it ...i dont think it can handle anything anymore if i am on mse only then it is ok but if i open up a word document to finish for uni say it freezes ...

i dont want to have to buy a new one i really dont i cant afford it but i need one for uni

savingholmes

elantan wrote: »

i was reading that on your thread saving ...sounds to me like you are doing the right thing ...and as you stated your paying for it so really bu**er what other people think ...can i move into his room ? it sounds great

I think his room will look amazing when its done! I shared a room until I was 15! He has had his own room since we moved here about 3 years ago - so he would have been around 8.... I want it to be special for him and a nice place to bring mates back to. I'm also hoping that he will take more pride in it then and keep it nicer! He recently bought himself a furry throw for his bed - black of course - but he is an odd mixture of grown up and child - and still enjoying the softer things of life literally!

ZTD wrote: »

That's exceedingly expensive - this one was only £300.

Could the laptop be a xmas pressie from everyone to you and OH? But perhaps bought in the Jan sales to make your money go further? What about a net book - would that be cheaper still?

How did the dis services go?

ZTD

elantan wrote: »

z i have re formatted de fragged ....spyware malaware norton and macafeed it ...i think the truth of the fact is it is old now ...everytime i load up msn the thing freezes and crashes infact almost every program i run freezes and crashes it ...i dont think it can handle anything anymore if i am on mse only then it is ok but if i open up a word document to finish for uni say it freezes ...

i dont want to have to buy a new one i really dont i cant afford it but i need one for uni

Use a memory tester first - assuming it's OK, then you need to reinstall - from scratch.

An external hard disk/USB key makes it a lot easier - copy your data files on it.

taxi73

Well done on not buying the laptop...hope it went ok at uni today.

elantan

thanks all ...

his room sounds just right for someone his age saving ...i bet he will love it

it is a good idea about getting it for xmas ...but (there always is one isnt there lol) i dont "DO" xmas i buy son a present mil ,fil and friends two kids but that is it ...i dont buy into the commercialism i dont do xmas dinner or any of that stuff ...i buy son something (this year it is giving him money off of what he owes us) mil ,fil get about £15 each spent on them friends two kids about £10 each so for me to say it would be for our xmas would not work ...great idea though ...

well went to the disability dept at uni ...they are giving me a dictaphone and a left handed keyboard they also suggested that i may have to drop out of uni if i cant do my placement (i knew this already) i have to go back next thursday to pick up the dictaphone and keyboard etc ...

elantan

Z i d/loaded something from that but i havnt got a clue what it is i am doing can you give me an idiots guide please?

ZTD

elantan wrote: »

Z i d/loaded something from that but i havnt got a clue what it is i am doing can you give me an idiots guide please?

Download the file ending in .ISO

Double-click on it.

It should automagically open up your cd burner software - Roxio or Nero or something similar.

Burn it to a blank CD.

Reboot your laptop with that CD in the drive - your machine should then boot from that CD - if it doesn't, try hitting escape just after your machine first sticks writing on the screen, but before windows boots - it should give you a menu of where to boot from.

Let the memory checker run. No news is good news - bad news is usually in red...

elantan

thanks z will try that tonight ...hopefully it will help

savingholmes

glad you go some help from dis services