Windows 7 lagging badly and very slow

Well Sammy we all had to learn the hard way mate even I managed to wreck a Dell XP I just loved by trying all that sort of stuff especially those mag disks they give away ( I wonder why LOL!!)

Never mind at least you have admitted to making the mistakes a lot hate doing that beats me why.

By the by if you are looking for a good free net security Comodo Premium is really good I put it on fixes for my workmates who don't earn as much as I do and cannot afford a paid for.
http://www.comodo.com/products/free-products.php

If you are up for a paid for I have had Kaspersky Internet Security for years and it has the very best online banking feature mate - I pau on avergae about $0.13 a day for mine. But they are always giving out good deals.
I'm just shifting over to 2013 shortly as my 2012 runs out on one machine. If you want it try it for a month and if configing it is a problem just PM me. Oh and Comodo too if you like. Link for KIS is
http://www.kaspersky.com/ > not the Pure though bit fiddly.

ICit2lol said:

Well Sammy we all had to learn the hard way mate even I managed to wreck a Dell XP I just loved by trying all that sort of stuff especially those mag disks they give away ( I wonder why LOL!!)

Never mind at least you have admitted to making the mistakes a lot hate doing that beats me why.

By the by if you are looking for a good free net security Comodo Premium is really good I put it on fixes for my workmates who don't earn as much as I do and cannot afford a paid for.
PC Security, PC Internet Security, Free Desktop PC Security Protection

If you are up for a paid for I have had Kaspersky Internet Security for years and it has the very best online banking feature mate - I pau on avergae about $0.13 a day for mine. But they are always giving out good deals.
I'm just shifting over to 2013 shortly as my 2012 runs out on one machine. If you want it try it for a month and if configing it is a problem just PM me. Oh and Comodo too if you like. Link for KIS is
Kaspersky Lab US | Antivirus Computer Security > not the Pure though bit fiddly.

I did love wrecking XP only to fix it again....Windows 7 is very very good and doesn't muck up so easy :) Good old days... Oh and I did love those mag cds.

I have comodo free firewall and avast on my system, very pleased with them as they are not cpu or ram hoggers. Just love the geek stuff always have and always will

Well from a year of testing it I often wonder why a fair number of people go just the Comodo firewall and not just the whole hog as it were. Plus I have never had one fix back where I have used this suite for any problems other thatn the HDD letting go etc and certainly not because the CIS has let anything through.
Doesn't make a great of sense to me and make of that what anyone will. To be absolutely blunt if I did not like Kaspersky because I still think it is the best I would have Comodo Premium end of story.

Hello and welcome Beermano too.

Well did some scratching around came up with the support site if you want to take a look Mut this is about the closest I can see to your problem
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01857699&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=au&dlc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_auen_c-001_title_r0001&lc=en&product=5041133

Maybe just out of pure coincidence both machines came from a rogue batch??

One thing Mut if you can try a making a bootable disk for Ubuntu change the BIOS to boot from the opto and if that runs ok then it will maybe sort of rule out problems with the RAM NB and SB graphics etc worth a try.

By the by have you tried running Speccy or something like it to check temps in the system?

Beermano said:

Thanks for replying ICit2lol. I,ll hopefully get some time over the weekend to look into it a bit deeper.
I might let the professional bloke look at it again, as I believe he might owe me some labour , from not fixing it the first time.
Cheers

Yeah mate I reckon the support for a lot of the brands now id pretty ordinary.

I had my first Toshiba (A200) from a dealer in Orange and the HDD carked it two weeks after the warranty ran out and well you would have thought they could have swung something but swung it my way to the tune of $500 for a 500GB (in 1998) drive - not impressed. Like a fool I bought a L550 from them a while later and it never ran right from day one had a local forum member and I tearing out hair out as they reckoned it was ok still to cut a very long story short I now have a 120G Samsung 830 in it and it flies. But Toshiba again ummm don't think so.

I do a fair nit of fixing for workmates and friends all who don't earn that much (I work for NSW Health) and most of the machine I get are yep Toshiba's and usually full of Apple ad that social networking rubbish.


Anyway let us know how you get on ok?

John