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| Thread ID: 25487 | 2002-10-04 21:20:00 | problems please help | chantillylace (2145) | Press F1 |
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| 86170 | 2002-10-07 07:13:00 | Chantillylace, The Winkey looks like a flag, it is between the CTRL and the ALT key on the left (same as flag on right) on the very bottom row on the keyboard. Hold the Winkey down and tap the D key once, and then tap again to change between windows and desktop. Don't give up, you have done very well to clear your startup list and free up your PC's resources, even if the "silly left over box" is still being a pain in the butt! Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 86171 | 2002-10-07 08:41:00 | This is becoming a Legacy... :) sorry, please continue... |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 86172 | 2002-10-07 09:17:00 | Time for a thread summary I think :D You have helped your PC out by reducing the startup items (well done!), but your original problem remains. A lot of people have suggested that lack of memory (RAM) is a likely culprit. Take your PC and the motherboard manual back to where you purchased it from, or the nearest computer shop and ask for more RAM to be added. Another stick of 128MB would be helpful especially if you like webshot type programs. This should fix your problems. If you are unhappy with your intergrated video card, this would also be the time to have a new one added. Good luck! Jen :D |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 86173 | 2002-10-07 18:08:00 | yes i have sorted out alot thanks heaps to all who have helped this is a wonderful place to go when your not sure like me :) |
chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86174 | 2002-10-07 22:16:00 | I'm in the opinion that ram is not the cause, and adding more will not achieve anything. Been mulling this over I have, and I reckon it's a dodgy piece of software. |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 86175 | 2002-10-08 23:57:00 | > I'm in the opinion that ram is not the cause, and adding more will not achieve anything. > Been mulling this over I have, and I reckon it's a dodgy piece of software. I read in a PC Internet mag yesterday that Webshots has spyware in it. Need I say any more? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 86176 | 2002-10-09 19:11:00 | hi there what can spyware do to my computer, and yes a had a brief look at the magazine about it, do you think this might be causing the problem i have with the square piece left over on my desktop when it changes see previous posts |
judexy (2146) | ||
| 86177 | 2002-10-14 06:41:00 | hi have you any ideas as to what is cuasing this left over piece of screen on my desktop and would webshots be causing it | chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86178 | 2002-10-14 07:28:00 | Now that you have your programs down to a reasonable level, try going through and disabling all of them except Explorer and Systray restart. How is the screen now? If it is still a problem we will have to look elsewhere, if not enable each of your startup programs one by one restarting the computer each time until you have isolated the offending program. | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 86179 | 2002-10-14 08:23:00 | Ok you have shared memory right? When a program loads, windows trys to put it in your physical memory, however if there is not enough room, it'll put it in virtual memory, which is a file (swap file it's called) on your hard drive. But whenever Windows needs to access the program, it has to put it in physical memory, and get rid of something else. (Hey guys Im trying to be simplistic! :p) Anyway, it's spyware, which means that it has a hidden piece of software running possibly all the time, using resourses. Now it being spyware, usually means it is also poorly written software. In a nutshell, it has been written so that the "spy" part of it is loaded into a certain area of physical memory. Unfortunately, that specific part of memory just so happens to be used by the video card. Verdict: uninstall webshots and see if that helps. |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
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