Thread: Laptop help

I have been having lots of problems with laptop lately ( Asus Windows 8 ) and before I take it to to a computer repair shop I thought I would ask here first ( maybe a bad move ) about what my options are. I can't seem to do much with it, I open programs and they freeze, some just don't open, they will close on their own, it can take an age to boot up. I have installed anti malware and spyware . What would my options be , such as a reboot or new hard drive. The laptop is about 2 years old so I would like to get it sorted rather than buying a new one....

Cheersio

Upgrade it to Windows 10, it's free

Windows 8 was shite

Sorry, Windows 7...my bad I had it installed in bkk, no doubt a fake version can I still download Windows 10. Is it any good?

Take it into your nearest Indian corner repair shop and give him a tenner to stick a clean version of XP on it. Cheap and always works. Till you fuck it up again that is

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That's beginning to sound like a good plan , because I will shorly fuck it up again

Yeah you can still get Windows 10 with a bootlegged copy of Windows 7

What you wanna do is go into Windows update and make sure everything is up to date. You will then see the Get Windows 10 icon on your taskbar.

Cheers dil, I will give that a go before I take more drastic measures.

Before doing that try a system restore to an earlier time, if you've set that up

A bootlegged "7" is a can of worms. Dapper suggestion would make sense. Good luck.

ps: Asus or Acer ? re: the laptop in question

^ putting Windows XP on a 2 year old machine?

Are you retarded

Have just tried installing windows 10 but it just says there is a problem. Yes dil it's an a ssus thingy...as you can tell I haven't got a clue with computers. I will take it to the shop and see what happens....

get rid of as many old links you have put on your desktop and uninstall all the programmes you never use

download "ccleaner" free. its very simple to set up and use.

run it to analyse and clean all the residual shite.

then use it to scan the registry and clean.

then download "jrt" junkware removal tool ( free), its a malwarebytes programme and run it.



hopefully you may now find your computers performance has improved.

Originally Posted by barrylad66

Have just tried installing windows 10 but it just says there is a problem. Yes dil it's an a ssus thingy...as you can tell I haven't got a clue with computers. I will take it to the shop and see what happens....

It's probably royally fucked.

You need a clean installation of Windows 7.

Then you need to upgrade it to Windows 10.

Don't even think of XP unless you want it fucked up again in no time.

Cheers everyone. I have decided to get a ' clean version ' of Windows 7 as I cant seem to do fuck all with it now.

Cannot download and install Ccleaner?

http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/?p...=dl&tag=button

D/L and on another computer and stick on a USB perhaps.

Originally Posted by taxexile

get rid of as many old links you have put on your desktop and uninstall all the programmes you never use

download "ccleaner" free. its very simple to set up and use.

run it to analyse and clean all the residual shite.

then use it to scan the registry and clean.

then download "jrt" junkware removal tool ( free), its a malwarebytes programme and run it.



hopefully you may now find your computers performance has improved.

Indeed.

Move everything off the desktop in to the C or D drive, and then just send a shortcut to the desktop.

Go to the Start button, type msconfig into the search button and press enter. Click the 'start up' tab and uncheck everything.

You probably have about 200 programs starting at start up.

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Originally Posted by Luigi

Cannot download and install Ccleaner?

Welcome CCleaner users

D/L and on another computer and stick on a USB perhaps.

Nope it's royaly tucked now...

^^^ 555

You can get a laptop fancooler for 80b. Plugs into the USB, the Laptop sits ontop and and a a fan or two underneath keeps it relatively cool.

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Right, a bit of luck downloading ccleaner some of you suggested. I will see how I get on with that. Also uninstalling anything I don't use. Got a headache too..

Originally Posted by Luigi

You can get a laptop fancooler for 80b.

I know but i spent 1000 baht on a laptop repair course at Pantip Plaza so wanted to test out my new skills, got a certificate at the end of the course as well.
Besides 80 baht is the cost of a large bottle of beer in 7/11 and i would rather have a beer than spend the baht on a cooling fan.

Originally Posted by Luigi

You can get a laptop fancooler for 80b. Plugs into the USB, the Laptop sits ontop and and a a fan or two underneath keeps it relatively cool.

just google "youtube how to clean fan on laptop make model " and then google " invadeit asus 305 "

Originally Posted by Dillinger

^ putting Windows XP on a 2 year old machine?

Are you retarded

Why, is that not possible?