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#90227 01/29/2005 12:40 AM
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I'm not sure where to post this, so I thought chit-chat might be a good place to start. If it'd be better serve elsewhere ...

I have a friend who is having problem with her computer running well.

She told me the following:

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My pc has been acting up so I dug out my Norton System works and ran a diagnostics test on it today. It took over 8 hours to run part of it. And then it said it didn't find anything wrong. Should I believe it?

this is what her computer has been doing
Freezing up a lot. Says it's running out of memory when I only have one program open. The keyboard acts up on occasion but workes if I reboot.

I can't run my graphics program on it anymore. It won't launch it.
Any ideas?

Thanks!


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Run a virus scan. run adware and spyware scanning. then run memory testing. http://www.memtest86.com/ for the last of them, but I would not be surprised if it were not one of the first two creating a problem.


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Oh, and Sue, you already did update to 6.7.1 tipsy


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#90230 01/30/2005 12:26 AM
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Ad-aware will probably fix most of that:

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE...0.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

Free and good thumbsup

A good anti-virus (norton should have one with the app they already ran, make sure the virus definitions are updated).


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Thanks, guys! I'll pass along your advice!

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Oh, and Sue, you already did update to 6.7.1 tipsy
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ad-aware updated to 1.06 in the last day or so thumbsup


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