Re: Computer too slow

Hedayat SM wrote:
Hi. I've had this problem before but I brought it to Acer service
center and they fixed it since it was on warranty. Now the warranty
is expired and if I go back it'd cost me.

My computer is extremely slow, suddenly. It happened over night and
the startup takes about 20 minutes (Even when I just turn on my
computer and the Windows XP logo is shown with the progression bar
running, it runs for 5 minutes). When I run programmes, the
programmes are slow. When I watch movies or hear music in windows
media player, the songs and movies or videos are broken into bits a
pieces and lags like hell. It takes more than 2 minutes to open
internet explorer.

When previously I went to the service center for the same problem, the
engineer mentioned to me that this is caused by one of the registry
entries corrupted and the coordination between the drives, cd drives
and all other internal components are not running properly thats why
things are so slow and he also mentioned that fixing it is pretty
easy and that all we have to do is delete the registry entry and
restart the computer and Windows XP will automatically reinstall the
registry entry by itself and all would be fine - he did it and proved
to me that it worked and well, it DID work.

Now I've got the same problem and I can't go back. Can anyone help
me? Tell me what registry entry he was talking about? Anything? If
possible please reply to my email at 60380@xxxxxxxxxxx with the
subject "Computer too slow" because I do not check this website often
nor my current signed in email often. Thank you very much. Your help
is very much appreciated.

P.S: Reformatting is not a solution as I'm using my laptop for school
purposes and there are more than 200GB of files scattered everywhere
that I need.

Either you are remembering incorrectly or the tech sold you a bill of
goods.

The first thing to try is to boot into Safe Mode (you will need to
repeatedly tap F8 until you get a screen of boot choices). Try some
basic things (use Windows Explorer, create documents in Notepad, etc.).
Is your performance still slow?

Since this is Usenet, I doubt many people will take you up on your offer
to e-mail you privately. Print out Shenan's post if you haven't done so
already. That will save you a lot of headaches.


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