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A few months a go I noticed that my laptop was getting a bit sluggish. First
I ran my nortons and spysweeper removed all spyware and had no viruses(both
are up to date). I ran the basic utilities Defrag and cleanup. I did not get
much improvement. I then went and removed any unused programs and files.
Still with no improvement. I don't think that I have done anything that
would have exposed me to a virus or any other type malicious software but you
never know. The next issue I encountered was a group of pixels would be
black on my desktop background it was the shape of a triangle and the longest
side was convex. It would always appear at the same place on the screen. I
would drag an Icon or an open window across it and it would vanish.
Sometimes days and even weeks would pass before it came back. Other times
minutes. The other thing that started happening was I when I booted up was I
would get a dialog box asking me something about enabling or disabling HotKey
which I never saw before. I am not sure if it is related to the problem I
just assumed it was an update. It has an Icon in the Sys Tray with a circle
and a slash through it. You can not click on it or anything. The next issue
was that my wireless connection would cut out every once in awhile. After
further investigation I also observed the speed to fluctuate, The signal
strength was always very good. I tested the wired connection and it is fine.
I got very frustrated after several restores I ended up formating the HD and
reinstalling windows. I still get the same problems. The Hotkey issue
showed up right away as did the connections issues, they are both the same as
described above. The pixel issue is the same shape but I get 3 at once. On
of which is in the same place as it used to be. Help with any suggestions
Laptop
XP SP2
1.3 ghz Processor
256 megs of RAM
I ran my nortons and spysweeper removed all spyware and had no viruses(both
are up to date). I ran the basic utilities Defrag and cleanup. I did not get
much improvement. I then went and removed any unused programs and files.
Still with no improvement. I don't think that I have done anything that
would have exposed me to a virus or any other type malicious software but you
never know. The next issue I encountered was a group of pixels would be
black on my desktop background it was the shape of a triangle and the longest
side was convex. It would always appear at the same place on the screen. I
would drag an Icon or an open window across it and it would vanish.
Sometimes days and even weeks would pass before it came back. Other times
minutes. The other thing that started happening was I when I booted up was I
would get a dialog box asking me something about enabling or disabling HotKey
which I never saw before. I am not sure if it is related to the problem I
just assumed it was an update. It has an Icon in the Sys Tray with a circle
and a slash through it. You can not click on it or anything. The next issue
was that my wireless connection would cut out every once in awhile. After
further investigation I also observed the speed to fluctuate, The signal
strength was always very good. I tested the wired connection and it is fine.
I got very frustrated after several restores I ended up formating the HD and
reinstalling windows. I still get the same problems. The Hotkey issue
showed up right away as did the connections issues, they are both the same as
described above. The pixel issue is the same shape but I get 3 at once. On
of which is in the same place as it used to be. Help with any suggestions
Laptop
XP SP2
1.3 ghz Processor
256 megs of RAM