Well I cannot speak for all men... I do like to slow dance ( and not wayyy off from what jeanie mentioned above)... but quicker dancing is a bit tougher ... could easily learn though

Lucky me I am sitting right below a newbie and a red riding hood look alike!!! Oh the innocence

Leigh I am devestated

True you can updates off all together on 7 or earlier by simply right clicking My Computer and going down and selecting properties. This is the System Properties window. Click on the update tab and shut them off. Or that is one way to turn it off... prolly the best one.

Not sure I'd recommend it. But you can do it. On XP many applications will not function until the system has been properly updated however. Can't speak for 7.. prolly not the same thing... a little safer running those updates though. They tend to take place when restarting or shutting down. And they take a long time at first... sometimes hours.

Not sure what you mean by debugging. This could mean a few things. To really work out the quirks you may want to perform a clean install ( which sounds like you may have done ). This includes reformatting the HDD and installing a fresh copy of Windows. And yes their are several updates that take place (especially with 7) that are time consuming and best not to shut down your machine ( shuting down tends to trigger them) when you are waiting for about the first month or so after this takes place.

But yeah it sounds like everything is normal .

Your CPU is an AMD and acting abnormally; totally makes me suspect the CPU. AMD's though great power wise (high frequencies and great price) tend to overheat easier then their Intel counterparts. Look into cooling systems (fans, liquid coolers ect.) and new CPUs.

Most likely the problem..... a chance it is not though.

Make it two Cher...long time no see

Sometimes you cannot... there are special IP addresses that have unique first bytes.
When you transmit a signal and it goes to the router.. usually the first byte is paid any attention... for example

110.215.1.1

110 is the first byte... and most important when the transmission is first sent.. this is the general region of the recieving...

215 is the second byte ... is similar to the city or building of the destination

1 is the third and fourth byte... building or workstation .. each point locates more specifically.


127 is a first byte that is commonly used for loop back... hard to explain

192 is another that is found all through out the country... they also have subnet masks..which I only vaguely remember from software fundamentals and operating systems class...

Point is sometimes you cannot locate by IP.

Probably not the cause...although could be...probably not. I am a web-programmer... now true there are sites where you play video games and I do not actually visit these sites but a couple... this is USUALLY not the case .. but easily could be.most of the usage that seemed extremely CPU intensive ... seemed un-intentional... such as caught in an infinite loop during the JavaScript... this bogged down my CPU quite considerably ... Problem was gone as soon as I left the site...

You should be able to eliminate this as a possibility by simply running programs that are not over the Internet or on your browser.

First, the things you did... tend not to work or any kind of results that are human detectable that I am aware of.

Also a computer running slowly could be several different things and very difficult to narrow down.

The fact that the CPU is running hot could definitely be the cause. And frequently (in my experience) when a computer is running slow and there is no noticeable reason for it...often needs a new CPU.

Heres how you tell. If your on Windows (at least for Windows 7 and earlier) you right click the task bar at the bottom the screen. Go to Task Manager and click on the performance tab. This shows you the CPU usage. These Idle at different frequencies. At rest it should be pretty close to 0. Playing intensive applications (video games) will range from 25% - 70 % (during normal operation). Check for it getting pinned at 100% when playing a video game.Also If it spikes sharply at rest like up to 15%... could be the problem... any more then that and it prolly is.

Another common cause is overloaded HDD. If you partition your HDD or it just got filled up (HDD = Hard Drive). It often causes slow performance..especially when writing to disk... it has the tendency to lock up programs (hang them).


If you have an AMD processor it would make me even more suspicious that it was the CPU..Good news...AMD are power houses for a drop in the bucket compared to Intel...also noticeably shorter lives comparitivly.

I love FF8, 7 and ten too. Wha5t6 was it about 8 you liked so much?

They are both right.... Often when you download a file for a new OS you must burn it onto a CD/DVD.. this is called creating an Image to boot from..

You will also need some drivers for your hardware and he is right.. you get those from the manufactureers web-site... sometime googling it will get the job done also for specific drivers that that web-site might not have.. usually adware but it works.

Third that their forgetting , that was the first thing that went through my head... the boot sequence... sounds complicated but its pretty simple.. most ppl call it the BIOS screen I call it CMOS setup.. when your loading your old OS after restarting your PC look in the upper right hand corner before the windows logo or whatever logo of your OS. It will say something like press f-9 through f-12 to enter BIOS or whatever type of set-up. In one of the catagories of the drop down menus you will see a selection that says boot sequence and select the CD/DVD disk as a possible source to boot from if it is unchecked... This is only if you have problems with the other two and it still dioes not work. Most boot sequences include the disk drive.. but not all of them.

That is cool... I know the feeling though it does not happen too often anymore... Coding takes hours and hours sometimes... can spend most of the day on it depending on what I am doing... not to mention I am still learning...

what were you doing for work???

Ok.. your under the misguided notion that I do not know that performing a clean install may be the only way to remove a virus.

Personally myself I am not hugely dependent upon my current OS ... I keep drivers and necessary files on a flash drive and re-install my system.. One of my OS's I do not even have the key for and use it all the time.


Many people are not the same way and like to maintain their current data...

Realistically many people can guess where they got the virus if their computer becomes infected with one... this makes choosing a restore point easy to do... in this case it is not likely the virus is going to be copied over onto a system restore.

I would recommend a system restore just because most people do not have their data prepared to preform a clean install and save the files they want and need.

If your saying the virus can infect the data files even though the files were created before this... I do not doubt it... but still not the easiest thing to do... when you run into turbulence during a system restore then youd preform the clean install...

Like many web-programmers I keep my files backed up on a remote server thios makes me very mobile with an existing archive of porn and other goodies from whereever at.

For those of you wanting to take my advice on this let me be a little clearer so I do not lead you astray.

When you download something and the site asks you where youd like to place the file on your local file system your granting the authors of that web-site the possibility to copy/view and re-transmit your files. This is not hugely difficult and actually pretty easy to do.

This is almost impossible to avoid any other way other then never downloading. Simply keep an external HDD and unplug it.... this way nobody could possible view it. Copy files you want onto your external HDD. This only depends if you mind someone viewing your files... for most people its not the biggest deal in the world.

Me too...
I work on my computer ... right now I am posting a web-site and running into one snag after another.... stayed up for two days... spent close to 20 hours on it... you go to my web-site with a browser that is not configured properly you'll see a black screen LoL... Looks fantastic if your browser is working and running Java though... pretty slick looking graphics w/ animation though... It just wont work for every visitor... Point is gotta re do it... hard to beat it but I have an idea.

Ok AVG came recommended in my web-design class. Truly knowing which AV software works best is tough though. Very technical field security w/ cryptography recognizing sequences as potential threats. ect.

I had one virus and it caught (AVG) it. I have to believe that much of the viruses out there are caught by the OS. People make this great big god ^%&*^& deal about things they don't quite understand. Catching the Trojan horse .. not the most likely thing in the world though it does happen.

Realistically.... getting caught in a for loop with a loop terminator that will always be true such as 1 + 1 == 2 that makes your computer bog down... far more likely.. it ends as soon as you close the tab the page is on.

Best AV advice??? Do not be afraid to reinstall your OS and use an external HDD that can be unplugged. First... do a system restore ... if the problem persists then reformat and do a clean install but you'll loose some files by reformatting (keep the ones you really need on the external HDD).. best way to protect against someone that can view your files...unplug your HDD .. it is that simple.... any time you download something your granting access to your HDD ... a safety measure might be... download to your disk then after its been on your system for a while ... copy it to the external HDD... this does not compromise your privacy when granting a site permission to access your file system.

If that does not work try a system restore .. the problem could be stored in your current files however in which case you may need to preform a clean install where your hard drive is completly reformatted...

Many ppl recommend checking the startup folder.. two things though.. One depending on which OS you have there may be more than one and the OS likes to hide these from even the administrator of the OS.. so no guarantees that youll even be able to find it unless you know exactly where its at... even I would have to check my text book to find the exact locations...... and last but not least in all likelihood will probably not be the problem of a slow start-up if its taking 15-30 mins. to get going. Although could be.

De-fragging and AV software again could possible help but prolly will not.

Not sure that there is a huge difference between Chrome and Firefox unless your a developer. Although Chrome does sacrafice display quality for performance if you look closely (others might do the same... I just have not caught it yet).

All the browsers have more slender sleeker looking graphics ( which make them seem more modern ) then IE. IE's display is kinda blocky sort of like they did not use advanced antialiasing when displaying HTML files and other browser developers did.

That being said I recomend Opera or Safari (made by Apple). Opera has a really nice UI set up if you use the three icons on the bottom left of the browser. Chrome does not display certain elenments with the intended color. But most ppl would not notice. Safari has a great looking display and renders nicely. My site looks the best on Safari when I am cross viewing in browsers (some browsers display diffrerently then others) as most html files would.

LoL very glittery... God save the Queene