The laptop is unhappy. Not unusable, but seriously unhappy. We're running out of ideas here. Justin's about ready to crack it open to see if a fan's died or some such
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I'd just rather not be without it if I don't have to. If I turned it over, I worry about when I would get it back. This, I understand, may be an irrational fear based on my own affection and addiction to my laptop and connectivity. Knowing does not make it go away. I can still do *most* things without too much trouble. Some without any trouble at all. It's mostly starting and stopping processes that make it unhappy.
I'll either get sick of it and turn it over to more capable hands, work through it slowly on my own, or just suffer until I can afford something not broken :P
A couple of things to trystoriedmanJune 6 2008, 21:15:39 UTC
From your long lost CoV buddy :-)
Download Panda's AV Suite. I've had excellent results, much better than the other free solutions. It found a bunch of stuff those other products did not.
Also, download process explorer, available from Microsoft (formerly SysInternals) and also AutoRuns. Process Explorer will find every process running on your laptop and what is launching it, etc. Autoruns will find any process running on start up and let you disable it. If you have trouble finding either e-mail me (joegange@core.com) and I will send them over.
Re: A couple of things to tryphireflyJune 11 2008, 16:52:22 UTC
Generally speaking, Panda is RIDICULOUSLY resource intensive, which seems to me like it'd hurt more than it'd help. Everything it can do, I've got smaller apps to do.
As far as startup and processes go... I've got utilities to already explore and modify these built into Windows. If I need to know what something -does-, I can do the research myself. There are a few really reliable websites out there which detail every Windows process and what it does, what spawns it, what it spawns.
I do appreciate the advice, but... we've already done all that without the extraneous software.
Re: A couple of things to trystoriedmanJune 13 2008, 21:35:09 UTC
Fair 'nuff :-)
For the record, that wasn't me talking out of my ass- I did have a recent situation where Panda found and cleaned some things nothing else did, including the list of anti-malware stuff you mentioned. But it sounds like you've done the diligence.
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memtest for the win. If only I tried that BEFORE I reformatted. :(
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I'll either get sick of it and turn it over to more capable hands, work through it slowly on my own, or just suffer until I can afford something not broken :P
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Download Panda's AV Suite. I've had excellent results, much better than the other free solutions. It found a bunch of stuff those other products did not.
Also, download process explorer, available from Microsoft (formerly SysInternals) and also AutoRuns. Process Explorer will find every process running on your laptop and what is launching it, etc. Autoruns will find any process running on start up and let you disable it. If you have trouble finding either e-mail me (joegange@core.com) and I will send them over.
Sorry about your current computing Hell.
Best-
Joe aka Vitrus (still occasionally on CoV)
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As far as startup and processes go... I've got utilities to already explore and modify these built into Windows. If I need to know what something -does-, I can do the research myself. There are a few really reliable websites out there which detail every Windows process and what it does, what spawns it, what it spawns.
I do appreciate the advice, but... we've already done all that without the extraneous software.
I hope you're doing well. :}
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For the record, that wasn't me talking out of my ass- I did have a recent situation where Panda found and cleaned some things nothing else did, including the list of anti-malware stuff you mentioned. But it sounds like you've done the diligence.
Sorry I don't have any more useful advice.
Any plans on heading to GenCon?
See you online hopefully.
Best-
Joe
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