Seriously, XP has been working find for the past 4 years and all of a sudden it's getting slow and restarting for no reason. I have no viruses or anything like that. Do you think it's a marketing ploy to buy Vista?
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Anonymous2007-01-22 1:53
There are bugs that behave like that. Look at Blaster in Google.
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Fox642007-01-22 8:12
u should probably reinstall or repair windows once a year, cause windows is very unstable. I installed windows, and it screwed its own registery in one day, go figure. However, I don't recomend anything else like linux, cause I think its more 31337 to mod windows than linuxs, cause at least there's a challenge when modding windows.
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Anonymous2007-01-22 8:20
>>3
Despite the fact that you come out like a twelve-year-old, I agree with you. format c: for the win!
>>1
If nothing works... How long have you had the harddrive the XP is on. They have a shelf life of 5-10 years, and after that it's random errors, crashes at boot. >>4
I don't even think a modern 12-year-yold would even undrestand if you told him of DOS, it was this generation who thought <pre>format c:</pre> was cool.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 13:48
>>3
I would just like to get it on record that, 12-year-old or not, this person is a fucking idiot.
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Hard drives should have an almost infinite shelf life...
I have two 80GB HDD. I had the first one about 3~4 years and the second one about 2~ years. The reason why I reformated was because it wouldn't even let me go to the windows logo. It's only slow booting up, but once I'm in it's as it used to be.
xp crashes now so you have to buy vista. it was one of the recent updates :)
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Anonymous2007-01-28 14:39
i always format once a month
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Anonymous2007-01-31 5:47
>>10
funny you should say that because my auto updates have been hogging memory like a JAVA app
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Anonymous2007-02-02 9:36
>>10
lol, I wouldn't doubt it. Then, in a future MS press release they'll defend by saying 'oops' Vista update leaked into the XP database causing MASSIVE DAMAGE
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Anonymous2007-02-02 20:01
You have a virus, definitely.
Don't trust the snake oil applications like Norton or whatever, you're computer has a malicious application eating up RAM, slowly.
Similar to Trojans or other files that eat up hard disk space very slowly.
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Aydin E2007-02-02 20:32
1) Save files elsewhere
2) Format hard drive
3) Re-install Windows
4) Repeat every 6-12 months
Failing that, you might want to check your RAM with something like Memtest86 (google it) - I had a dodgy batch in one of my PCs that started throwing out random errors for no reason.
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Anonymous2007-02-04 18:53
Might I suggest deleting that pesky System32 folder.
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Anonymous2007-02-09 6:41
>>16 if only he could do that, remember that system actually protects that recycle bin. he would have to turn protection off 1st. any way, i'm sure even attempting to do so would screw... err, fix - yeah, fix - things up.
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Anonymous2007-02-09 10:16
>>17
OP can try booting into safe mode to get rid of as much of that stuff as is possible in windows. He can also compress ntldr, not sure if he needs to if he can get rid of enough of the stuff from \system32