Recent content by treadlightly

It is difficult for me to advise you concerning SpyBot detections unless you tell me what they are. As a general rule, you can simply tell SpyBot to delete everything it found. It won't detect well-known safe programs or critical Windows files, for example, but something you installed may stop...

downeyb, you may have something there. Well, making your computer as lean and mean as it can be is never a bad idea, and it just might help Toky out. It certainly can't hurt. Windows in any form is a hungry beast, consuming system resources at will. Here is another tip that may help: Try...

Maybe I can help, a little bit. If you have a wireless router, you can perhaps find out if it's working and connected to the Internet by plugging your computer directly into it with an Ethernet cord. Forget WiFi, just see if the router is working by trying a direct wired connection. If the...

Hi, shady, If you change drives, or even change folders on the existing drive, for that matter, you have to reinstall the software so that Windows can find it. You cannot simply copy a games folder from one drive, or folder, to another. Copying it from one place to another will create...

popatim may have something there. I wrangle viruses all the time, and have successfully disinfected computers that nobody else could repair. There are infections that can delete files, so at this point, if I were you, I would stop everything and scan your computer. I would start with the...

This may seem like a silly suggestion, but if drivers are up to date, temperatures are okay, and you have plenty of RAM and CPU horsepower, then I would suspect the slow link in the data-flow chain: the hard drive. If your games read lots of data from the hard drive, and it is badly fragmented...

I am new here, so I don't know if anything I am going to suggest will be of any help to you at all, but I am going to try. I have been computing for 30 years (I'm 58 years old), and I have seen some weird errors in my time. I recently installed a new Radeon 5450 video card into my computer and...

Hi, everyone. CPU overheating is a problem I have some experience with, so I would like to add my thoughts to the collection. There are several things I know of that can cause a CPU to run a little too warmly, or get downright hot: 1. Dust or lint blocking the heat sink. 2. Failure of the...