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Thread ID: 97036	2009-02-02 02:45:00	From Speed demon meth bunny to legless alcoholic turtle	Lupy501 (14571)	Press F1

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744165	2009-02-13 23:35:00	cheers, will probly try that programe over night	Lupy501 (14571)
744166	2009-02-13 23:58:00	Id get a small free/cheap 20gB etc HDD to install windows on,so that you have a usable PC. Then mount the original drive as a slave,and do your scandisk/run utilities on it.	pkm (13527)
744167	2009-02-14 12:29:00	couple thoughts occur; first check what transfer mode your drive is using. Right click my computer - choose manage - device manager - IDE controllers then right click a controller and choose properties - advanced, check that Transfer mode is set to DMA if available and current transfer mode is some form of DMA. If not se to DMA then change it, if set but using PIO mode, change it to PIO, the restart and change it back to DMA Could also be a bios setting - resettting to defaults as suggested should sort that. Silly but possible suggestion, the hard drive isn't full ? if so it will slow everything down, windows needs a little breathing room. Last suggest, right click the task bar, choose task manager - check the performance tab doesn't show too much CPU usage, if it does check the processes to see what is using it.	dugimodo (138)
744168	2009-02-15 03:48:00	got 22 gigs free of 250, will check the DMA / PIO setting now	Lupy501 (14571)
744169	2009-02-15 03:51:00	ok one was pio but set on DMA so rebooting now	Lupy501 (14571)
744170	2009-02-15 19:23:00	PIO mode is hugely slow and only really for old 2 speed CDrom drives, will definately be why everything is so slow if you are running in that mode. If "toggling" the setting like I suggested doesn't get you back to DMA mode after a couple reboot's you have two possibilties: 1. delete windows error log from the registry like so sniptools.com 2. delete the ide controller from device manager, don't panic windows will put it right back on reboot. A small explanantion, someone else can go into detail if they like: Usually this happens to scratched or dirty optical disks but can occasionally happen to hard drive, windows keeps a log of read errors in the registry and if it exceeds a certain threshold in a given time period it steps down to a slower transfer mode, eventually ending up in PIO mode. Often it can be very tricky getting back.	dugimodo (138)
744171	2009-02-15 23:11:00	..Plus a good opportunity to do a fresh install,... I think this is probably your best option. Just looking at you Hijack This log you have alot of programs running in the background that you dont really want/need. Looks as thou your IE hijacked "search.speedbit.com" "but this december just gone I took it to a LAN party at my friends house (ok a hotel room at the pub down the road) and all of a sudden it's taking 10 minutes to boot" Lan Parties have been known to be the cause of a few virus infections. I bet you ran a few keygens/cracks perhaps. Id guess the PC has a spyware/virus infection slowing things down as well.Also some versions of Daemon tools installed spyware. Try booting without any internet connection & see if its faster, if so its infected. Start UNISTALLING some if the crap you have loaded. (eg. IE toolbars, all of them) Disable programs from running in the background/loading on startup. You need to be brutal in de-crapifing Win. Go back to Hijack this & remove ctfmon, (it will reload itself later) http://www.windowsstartup.com/ Try Startup inspector. You will be shocked just how many programs are loading up when you start win. This program makes it easy to temporarily disable them to see if that makes any diff. Or run 'msconfig' & untick 'load startup items'.	sroby (11519)
744172	2009-02-24 05:47:00	just did a defrag over night / day only took 21 hours O_o havent noticed any real difference or anything, so tonight ima go back to virus scanning do one of those over night kill anything that comes up then if nothing then ima have to install *gulp* 32 bit vista :O	Lupy501 (14571)
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