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Couple of weird things.. standard home user issues
MercilessKiller
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Right, went to speed up me uncles pc last night. Switched to "adjust windows for best performance", change his virus scanner to free-av.com instead of bloaty norton, he had a milllion stupid processes running so stopped the un-needed ones on startup.. runs MUCH faster.
He just called me with 2 issues:
1) Nothing in the USB ports is recognised anymore. So you plug it in, power goes through it, but the PC doesnt even detect it. I'm going to have a look tomorrow night and will check device manager but it sounds a bit strange :S. Its a 5 year old packard bell, early win xp days. Did that needs extra USB Drivers ya think? Maybe I stopped a process which detected things plugged into USB Drives? I've never heard of that but meh..
2) Adobe Photoshop... Apparently when he used to run it, the home page would have a history of recent pictures etc. Now when he opens it its all blank. Once again, is this due to a process I may have stopped? Or the adjust for best performance setting in windows?
Tbh both might be simple user error, but until I go tomorrow night I thought I'd just see if I can limit my time there
Ta
He just called me with 2 issues:
1) Nothing in the USB ports is recognised anymore. So you plug it in, power goes through it, but the PC doesnt even detect it. I'm going to have a look tomorrow night and will check device manager but it sounds a bit strange :S. Its a 5 year old packard bell, early win xp days. Did that needs extra USB Drivers ya think? Maybe I stopped a process which detected things plugged into USB Drives? I've never heard of that but meh..
2) Adobe Photoshop... Apparently when he used to run it, the home page would have a history of recent pictures etc. Now when he opens it its all blank. Once again, is this due to a process I may have stopped? Or the adjust for best performance setting in windows?
Tbh both might be simple user error, but until I go tomorrow night I thought I'd just see if I can limit my time there
Ta
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plug and play service?
anything like ccleaner installed?Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:0 -
its prob all connected with best performance.
you may have to do a custom startup menu.
a program such as tuneup utilities would help you.Get some gorm.0 -
Hmmm I didn't think plug and play used a background process on startup? (I turned processes off, not services btw...) Can't find anything in google anyway hmmm (no cc cleaner installed either btw)
Aas for a custom startup menu, what's that going to fix right now hehe? I don't believe that would fix the 2 issues.
Tuneup Utilities wouldn't either in this case...
Hmm rather strange.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
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*sigh*. Was user error. Just spoke to my uncle who siad he restarted and it all worked fine. Ah well at least I don't have to waste my night.
Thanks all
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
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You forgot the first thing anyone says as a tech support person:
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
:rotfl:0
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