Some suspect programs.

[mouldeeves]

Okay i searched that on google and ran the memory test.
When i ran it it asked me to run two of them simultaneously, so i did. When i clicked run after a bout 3 seconds it went to a blue screen saying something about a memory dump. I restarted my computer and here I am.

 

[Redmo0n]

You have bad memory, check 1 stick at a time.

 

[mouldeeves]

by bad memory do you mean there is a fault with the memory?

 

[Nick]

Yes that is what he means, mind you it's pretty cheap these days £20 will get you 2gb.. but before you buy test your system with different sticks to find the faulty one.

 

[mouldeeves]

But once i get past the logon screen everything is fine. Also this problem only happened after I got a virus. Im pretty sure its not a hardware issue.

Are there any other possibilities?

 

[Redmo0n]

Run memtest again and if it crashes then you will know there is a memory problem. I run memtest fine on my computer for hours, even days if i wanted.

The memory could be causing you to slow down, though i would think it was something else. Make sure you run ccleaner/cleanup and defrag regularly, really i can't think of anything but your memory is bad so you need to replace 1 or both sticks, try them both by themselfs.

 

[mouldeeves]

Okay I have tried to run memtest86 but when i try to run i get an error message saying something about a symnatec dll. file.
I am extremely confused!

 

[Osiris]

What is the exact error message?
Does it show the file location or complete file name?
Did you search for that file and try to delete it?

 

[mouldeeves]

the error message reads

16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS\Temp\TEMPOR~1.ZIP\rawrite.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Symnatec\S32EVNT1.DLL. An installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll initialization. Choose ‘Close' to terminate the application.

I have seached for the file but apparently it doesn't exist.

 

[Osiris]

Can you show me a screenshot of msconfig>startup