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Slow Computer? Urgent Help please, whats happening?

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  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
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    Kimberley wrote: »
    espresso do I run cleaner to all that are ticked? I don't want to make a mistake and delete files that should be there :confused: Also does it clean from Mozilla Firefox as well?

    You can do but you may want to read the help so as to preserve cookies for certain sites e.g. for remembered log-ins etc. It tells you what it does on the link re. Firefox.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    espresso wrote: »
    You can do but you may want to read the help so as to preserve cookies for certain sites e.g. for remembered log-ins etc. It tells you what it does on the link re. Firefox.

    Thank you, cleaned it and hopefully the internet will be faster for me, i'll come back in 10 mins to let you know, thank you again everyone :beer:
  • ckerrd
    ckerrd Posts: 2,641 Forumite
    Kimberley wrote: »
    Thank you, cleaned it and hopefully the internet will be faster for me, i'll come back in 10 mins to let you know, thank you again everyone :beer:


    Out of interest how much rubbish did it get rid of?

    I always recommend to friend that they run it regularly and I am amazed at how much it clears out. Hope the pc has speeded up now
    We all evolve - get on with it
  • bookduck
    bookduck Posts: 1,136 Forumite
    Kimberley wrote: »
    Thank you, cleaned it and hopefully the internet will be faster for me, i'll come back in 10 mins to let you know,

    Thats killed it!? - no reply :)

    There is another useful tool called process explorer. You can sort which processes are hogging your resources. Google these services and check if they are necessary or not.

    If you want it to work fast and well without buying memory, then xp might just be the way to go.
    GOOGLE it before you ask, you'll often save yourself a lot of time. ;)
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    ckerrd wrote: »
    Out of interest how much rubbish did it get rid of?

    I always recommend to friend that they run it regularly and I am amazed at how much it clears out. Hope the pc has speeded up now

    Quite a bit, it's weird though because I cannot now log into my yahoo mail account, I cannot also click on a smiley here and when i try to thank people the page runs up to the top and I cannot see the MSE logo up the top all I see is the words Masthead Logo Oh no, My Natwest page is all over the place and bits missing, I cannot log on to some of my bookmarked sites, help what has gone wrong?
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    bookduck wrote: »
    Thats killed it!? - no reply :)

    There is another useful tool called process explorer. You can sort which processes are hogging your resources. Google these services and check if they are necessary or not.

    If you want it to work fast and well without buying memory, then xp might just be the way to go.

    My sister has XP so I may well get her to install that instead. There are some things now I cannot do
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    I can access my sites if i google them but not through my bookmarks so what have i done wrong? Now I cannot qoute people or edit my posts on here :(
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    When I try to log into my yahoo mail a message comes up saying unable to load mail javascript files Sorry for all the posts but i cannot edit my posts :(
  • ckerrd
    ckerrd Posts: 2,641 Forumite
    Sorry to hear that things are not quite right at the moment.

    Did you just use the "cleaner" bit of the programme?

    Have you scanned using the "registry" bit to see if there are any issues it throws up there - which can then be fixed?
    We all evolve - get on with it
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    ckerrd wrote: »
    Sorry to hear that things are not quite right at the moment.

    Did you just use the "cleaner" bit of the programme?

    Have you scanned using the "registry" bit to see if there are any issues it throws up there - which can then be fixed?

    No I deleted some items I didn't want and some of the start up programms :( What have I done? How do i restore it all?
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