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Alright, here goes the description of the problem. I dont have first hand interaction with it (at college instead of home).
My mom has a dell, I dont know what model or how old, but it is running xphome. My bother, some of you may know him(spiidersniiper on tf), decided that the pc was running slow, so he ran macafe. he said macaffee found four folders or files that were not good, and it removed them, he did not reboot the pc like macafee told him to. He didnt say if performace increased after that. But later that night when my mom went on the pc it was crawling, with the cpu maxed out all the time. She rebooted it to see if it would get better, but no success.
So the problem is that the cpu is maxed out and something isnt allowing any cpu cycles to be used for any other program. When you three finger salut, task manager flashes on, then off. You cant get msconfig to stay open either. Windows Explorer we have moderate succes with, but you cant move files around because the cpu is maxed out. Even in safe mode the pc runs just as slugish. So it sounds like there is something wrong with a file in windows, since the pc run slow in safe mode.
I suggested putting the xp instal disk in before boot up and runing windows reapair. Because windows restore wont always open, or wont work at all, even in safe mode. Also booting to the last known god config wont solve the problem.
So unless some one has a suggestion, and windows repair doesnt work it looks like i'll have to take the hard drive out, back up the files and reinstall.
Any help, ideas or suggestions? Thanks.
My mom has a dell, I dont know what model or how old, but it is running xphome. My bother, some of you may know him(spiidersniiper on tf), decided that the pc was running slow, so he ran macafe. he said macaffee found four folders or files that were not good, and it removed them, he did not reboot the pc like macafee told him to. He didnt say if performace increased after that. But later that night when my mom went on the pc it was crawling, with the cpu maxed out all the time. She rebooted it to see if it would get better, but no success.
So the problem is that the cpu is maxed out and something isnt allowing any cpu cycles to be used for any other program. When you three finger salut, task manager flashes on, then off. You cant get msconfig to stay open either. Windows Explorer we have moderate succes with, but you cant move files around because the cpu is maxed out. Even in safe mode the pc runs just as slugish. So it sounds like there is something wrong with a file in windows, since the pc run slow in safe mode.
I suggested putting the xp instal disk in before boot up and runing windows reapair. Because windows restore wont always open, or wont work at all, even in safe mode. Also booting to the last known god config wont solve the problem.
So unless some one has a suggestion, and windows repair doesnt work it looks like i'll have to take the hard drive out, back up the files and reinstall.
Any help, ideas or suggestions? Thanks.