i, and my computer, am (are) in dire need... please...
here's the deal.
i've figured out recently, through extensive research and through spending a few hours a day trying desperately to fix the problem myself, that it is not normal to go into the windows task manager on a personal computer and to find that there are over 40 executable files running that you did not ask to run at any one time. it's making my computer overheat/turn off/bring up the blue screen of death/act ridiculous in any number of ways and ALL the problematic programs that i'm certain are just annoyances and aren't important are impervious to erasure/acting of their own free will/completely oblivious to me.
not to mention i have, in the past while trying to eliminate what i thought were unnecessary files, totally screwed up the whole .net framework among plently of other things i actually kind of need... those are old problems that i've overcome by using stupid dated programs like "paint" instead of "paint.net," but still...
when i try and go online with internet explorer, window after window of blank content pops up and it's difficult to override said process/stop it.
when i go online with mozilla firefox it acts normal (albeit incredibly slow) for a little while, but after about fifteen minutes it stops coming up entirely and says something about a proxy server not responding and doesn't let me access the internet anymore.
i've used a few free spyware/adware services, but those are so slowed down at this point by all the shit running on my computer that they usually stop themselves midway through, or the computer overheats and shuts itself off before it can finish, or the blue screen of death comes up and i have to turn it off before any progress is made.
one file in particular i've found that takes up every bit of cpu i have left when other programs are running, and which causes my laptop to overheat, is qttask.exe. this file is apparently installed by quicktime and is near-impossible to get rid of. yes!
while i would generally just try and focus on getting this qttask abomination off my hard drive etc etc, there are clearly far more problems than that and it's starting to seem more and more like it'd just be sensible to reinstall the operating system and say a tearful farewell to all of my music, pictures, and documents.
i've steeled myself. i'm ready to do it.
here's the deal, though:
i don't know what i'm doing.
i have the operating system install disc (windows xp professional), and i've been made to believe that if i put said disc in, it'll take care of the problem and just reinstall everything and get rid of everything else blah blah blah everything'll be peachy...
i do not trust this information. i need it from at least 2 other sources. hell to the no i won't just trust one person and potentially ruin my laptop forever and ever amen.
i also have all the driver discs and the word processor program disc etc, so don't worry about me losing those.
regardless i need help or a walk-through or something.
in case you haven't figured this out -- i'm on a roommates computer, not my own. my own is being a dickface. it's only being a dickface because it's filled with bullshit i didn't allow intentionally. i allowed it because i'm uninformed and because i'm an asshole. generally it's a gem. i love you, dell inspiron 1150! i've loved you for 5 years! don't give up on me now!
I HAVE NEVER REINSTALLED AN OPERATING SYSTEM BEFORE AND I AM AFRAID!
oh, jeez.
so yeah... if you feel like, you know, helping danielle chiasson out of this bind and making her feel a little better about being.... well... entirely irresponsible. she'll be very grateful. she'll probably buy you a meal of some sort.
free food? i mean, really? who gives that up?
i've figured out recently, through extensive research and through spending a few hours a day trying desperately to fix the problem myself, that it is not normal to go into the windows task manager on a personal computer and to find that there are over 40 executable files running that you did not ask to run at any one time. it's making my computer overheat/turn off/bring up the blue screen of death/act ridiculous in any number of ways and ALL the problematic programs that i'm certain are just annoyances and aren't important are impervious to erasure/acting of their own free will/completely oblivious to me.
not to mention i have, in the past while trying to eliminate what i thought were unnecessary files, totally screwed up the whole .net framework among plently of other things i actually kind of need... those are old problems that i've overcome by using stupid dated programs like "paint" instead of "paint.net," but still...
when i try and go online with internet explorer, window after window of blank content pops up and it's difficult to override said process/stop it.
when i go online with mozilla firefox it acts normal (albeit incredibly slow) for a little while, but after about fifteen minutes it stops coming up entirely and says something about a proxy server not responding and doesn't let me access the internet anymore.
i've used a few free spyware/adware services, but those are so slowed down at this point by all the shit running on my computer that they usually stop themselves midway through, or the computer overheats and shuts itself off before it can finish, or the blue screen of death comes up and i have to turn it off before any progress is made.
one file in particular i've found that takes up every bit of cpu i have left when other programs are running, and which causes my laptop to overheat, is qttask.exe. this file is apparently installed by quicktime and is near-impossible to get rid of. yes!
while i would generally just try and focus on getting this qttask abomination off my hard drive etc etc, there are clearly far more problems than that and it's starting to seem more and more like it'd just be sensible to reinstall the operating system and say a tearful farewell to all of my music, pictures, and documents.
i've steeled myself. i'm ready to do it.
here's the deal, though:
i don't know what i'm doing.
i have the operating system install disc (windows xp professional), and i've been made to believe that if i put said disc in, it'll take care of the problem and just reinstall everything and get rid of everything else blah blah blah everything'll be peachy...
i do not trust this information. i need it from at least 2 other sources. hell to the no i won't just trust one person and potentially ruin my laptop forever and ever amen.
i also have all the driver discs and the word processor program disc etc, so don't worry about me losing those.
regardless i need help or a walk-through or something.
in case you haven't figured this out -- i'm on a roommates computer, not my own. my own is being a dickface. it's only being a dickface because it's filled with bullshit i didn't allow intentionally. i allowed it because i'm uninformed and because i'm an asshole. generally it's a gem. i love you, dell inspiron 1150! i've loved you for 5 years! don't give up on me now!
I HAVE NEVER REINSTALLED AN OPERATING SYSTEM BEFORE AND I AM AFRAID!
oh, jeez.
so yeah... if you feel like, you know, helping danielle chiasson out of this bind and making her feel a little better about being.... well... entirely irresponsible. she'll be very grateful. she'll probably buy you a meal of some sort.
free food? i mean, really? who gives that up?