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pmerryman
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My dad's pc is getting very slow indeed, and have told him to do a fresh install of the OS. It is a Packard Bell pc, which has no OS disc with it, but has a licence code on the side of the machine. How do I go about reloading the OS on his machine. The OS, is windows XP Home.
cheers paul
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lukechris
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Well I made a post yesterday about this,
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=187469
and cyco said you'll have to request an install disc
What exactly is slow?
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pmerryman
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Everything seems to be running slow. Opening things up, and when your on the net. Tried to run adaware and spyware progs, but still seems slow.
Is this the same situation your in by the way?
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lgrafatisaid
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Hi! Did you now someway to full up my RAM to 1go i have just 256MB. I havd seen befor in the internet a way but i forgot it please help
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Cycovision
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@lgrafatisaid
If you are using Vista, you just need to buy a 1Gb memory stick that is "readyboost" compatible and plug it into the USB slot. Vista will pop a window up with various options, one of which is to boost your computer's memory.
If you mean how do you make a normal memory stick readyboost compatible, then I don't know I'm afraid!
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Cycovision
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@pmerryman
It might be the hard drive giving up? That can cause very slow everything! Is the harddrive making loud noises, or sounding like it's working harder than it used to?
Try doing a scandisk on it; if it looks like it's going to take forever then the hard drive is probably on it's way out. If it completes in a reasonable time, then the hard drive is most likely ok and it might have speeded things up a little anyway.
There's no definitive way of testing a hard drive for errors without using software, but those pointers above can give you a very good idea 
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Trev1982
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@Perryman you could uninstall all the programs save the pictures and documents etc to disk or usb, when everything off, do virus and malware and spyware checks, chk disk and dedrag make it like fresh install, then just out what you want back on, take a good few hours but quicker than waiting for a replacement disk, or be naughty and download 1 lol
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pmerryman
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Will Packard Bell provide a disk?
Why do they not supply it in the first place.?
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Trev1982
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@perryman erm lets see because they dont want the dodgy folk around to upload it to the net, and i think they use oem versions anyhow, but yeah im pretty sure if you contact them you can get one
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Cycovision
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Legaly, you can't supply windows pre-installed without offering some way of reinstalling it. If PB never supplied any disks with the computer, then there should be a recovery utility that uses a second partition on the hard drive rather than a CD or DVD.
So I would ring them about this issue, one should never be supplied a new PC without a means of restoring it.
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pmerryman
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Thanks Guys. Will try the scandisk first, then look into this fursther if not any better.
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lgrafatisaid
Joined: Sep 27, 2008
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Hi. The problem is back again i mean 100/100 cpu usage. explorer.exe is using the most of CPU .there is an application named SYSTEM DLL FILES.EXE its look like a virus .this application is making explorer.exe use all the CPU .Some solution please.
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lgrafatisaid
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were are you guys .Are u skiping from if u dont wont me in this forum just tell me please
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Trev1982
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IF you had just googled that you would see that it is malware my friend only takes 2 seconds and google is the answer to everything
http://www.incodesolutions.com/threats2/System32Rootsystem-dllexe.php |
Trev1982
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Yet this Site
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
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