Help! PC is Slowing / Hanging Many Times Daily!

[Dave]

Greetings!
PC hangs opening MS Word, MS Excel, IE 6, other apps.; Task Mgr will not
close them - PC needs reboot to unhang and open apps. I have rebooted 3
times today! Rebooting drops many settings.
Sometimes I will find that my home page has been reset.
I had a restore point set, but cannot find it. Backup does not work.
Blaster worm did not touch PC, these problems have been ongoing since first
week of use, 3rd week of June '03.

Compaq Presario s3200nx
AMD Athlon 2400
2.0 GHz
120 GB HD
256 MB RAM
WIN XP Home SP1
Zone Alarms 3.7
Norton Antivirus Home 2003 Ver. 9.05.15

Thanks in advance!

-- Dave

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

OK, you might want to scan your system for other possible viruses and make
sure your antivirus app has the latest definitions before scanning.

Also, go to Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, open Event Viewer,
look for errors that correspond to when the some of these issues occur,
double click the error, the information contained within may give a clue as
to the source of the issue.

Download and run the following:

Ad Aware: www.lavasoftusa.com
SpyBot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

 

[Eber]

Dave

Certainly AdAware is a good choice for you.


Eber

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[Perdita X. Nitt]

Dave

Certainly AdAware is a good choice for you.


Eber

And how the blibbins with AdAware stop his system from locking up?! Sounds
like a hardware problem to me.

 

[Hamiltoons]

And how the blibbins with AdAware stop his system from locking up?! Sounds

like a hardware problem to me.

Your responses certainly don't help when you always have an attitude when
you post something.

 

[Wendy\(v-2wends\)]

Have you tried to see if this happens in safe mode? To get to safe mode, tap
F8 when the computer is starting, then choose it from the list.
Also might want to run a diagnostics on the hardware of the system, as the
memory might be getting too full and needing the cache cleaned, so if this
be the case, it would need the restart.