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Posted on 12/13/2013 7:34:02 PM PST by GeronL
I just went through this with several machines at a small firm.
The real clue here is the 24X7 help and the “speed thingy”.
Your machine is most likely infected with a type of malware that downloads all kinds of adware, pop ups, password stealers, browser helpers, etc. The longer they run, the more junk they download.
Shut your machine down. Not a restart, just shut down.
It may take awhile for the machine to respond. Be patient. If all else fails, press ctrl, shift, esc simultaneously. This will force the task manager and you can choose shutdown from there. Again, it may take a while for the machine to respond.
Once your machine has shut down, restart it and immediately start tapping the f8 key.
Eventually, you will get a screen that will allow you to choose Start in Safe Mode.
Once the desktop comes up, type msconfig in the search program and files window. (See Pox’s post at #3)
In the msconfig dialog window click the startup tab.
You should see a check box in the lower left labeled “Hide microsoft services”. Check the box.
Now disable everything else on the startup page.
Restart your machine and immediately go to malwarebytes.com.
Download their free version and run it.
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The Adobe flash update is configured to install Chrome by default. The bastards that did that should have to sign up for health ins. on HealthCare.gov.
Sometimes helpful to physically disconnect your Internet connection if things are running wild. If there is any malware that has implanted itself in your PC and is using it to send or receive packets would then, of course, all it’s connections would fail and then perhaps they would fail or go into a state where they were waiting instead of running.
Stuff accumulates.
I had the same problem a month or so ago on my Satellite (which is considered one of the best laptop models, don’t listen to idiots!) Too many Chrome tabs was the main cause. Got rid of the two always open e-mail tabs. Ran Advanced System Care, Glary Utilities and a couple of others (warning: don’t download from Cnet as their downloader adds as a bonus a bunch of crap to your machine. majorgeeks.com is a good safe source), and also, very helpful was the Open Source ProLasso program, which, unlike most others, allows you to modify the priority of processes. Also, it’s important to have a low memory footprint anti-virus, and Avast is one.
Seriously, paste this in the Run command (Windows key and R): eventvwr.msc and hit OK. Look for Administrative events (if it is like W/8) under Custom, and report what errors were around the freeze time.
Then start up in Safe Mode with networking, which usually is by tapping the F8 key during the beginning of the boot process. Then run the http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ free online scan.
Then run http://www.malwarebytes.org/ also.
Then download autoruns.exe (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx). Save it do desktop and run autoruns.exe, and take you time to look thru it. Choose the Logon tab first, and deselect unnecessary items.
Next paste this in the Run command (Windows key and R): services.msc and hit OK, Then hit the Startup type tab, and change things like MSOffice to manual.
If not fixed, you can try doing a system restore.
pa ste this in the Run command/: C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe, hit OK and choose the last good date ll was working well.
Report back.
Speaking of Vista— which came first, Vista, or XP?
I ask because my Vista machine crashed last week and had to be replaced, and I can’t remember when I bought it. I have XP, or 7, everywhere else.
I have a Toshiba laptop running Win 7 that exhibits problems similar to yours. Drives me nuts because it jumps from window to window while I’m working.
I know.
The thing was showing 7% CPU usage and 42% physical memory usage when it starts freezing, which looks like its thinking but nothing happens
XP came first
Vista was pre-7 crap
anyway, the Toshiba in question came with Vista originally
I will see if I can do some of that in a bit. Not right now though
If ya haven’t, get CCleaner and run it...It’s free and work very well. Someone stuck the link up above. If your not sure how to use it, ping me and I’ll show ya. Very simple to use.
I tried something a long time ago someone recommended back when this thing I am on ran Vista, nearly destroyed my computer. I will be very careful now.
I think I will try Malware Bytes first
There are only a few things that Windows does that I can’t do in Linux, playing games I like is one of them. I have lived without them for a while though. I did not die.
If you haven’t tried it make an Ubuntu Linux live disc and try it. You can run it off the disc and not even install it.
I’m running exactly the same laptop with 4 gig of ram and I run some heavy duty stuff. Use the MSCONFIG to turn off most of what is starting at boot, most of it is not needed anyway. This is not a processor or OS problem, it is a problem with all of the crapware that gets put into background processing when you install things like google, yahoo and a lot of other apps of that type.
Computers are great till they aren’t’. Been there many times.
When ya get it back up, get and use CCleaner weekly...Helps keep a lot of junk out..free and super easy to use.
Good luck.
Did you apply the changes and then restart the PC? Those changes require a reboot. If you didn’t do that then all those background processes are still running.
I did it right. Something else is wrong too it looks like
Did you try a defrag? Seems with XP I had to defrag quite often but not so much with Windows 7. My brother was running Vista on his glitchy HP PC and it took a long ovenight to defrag but it ran smoother after it completed and rebooted.
after I run Malwarebytes I’ll try that. Might take a while with 200 Gigs
Control Panel> Internet Options> Advanced tab the Reset button. This reinstall IE. It leaves your favorites alone.
It gets rid of extra toolbars etc that can cause IE to stop working.
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