Please help!
Running a brand new HP desktop machine. I've been using it for about a week with no problems ... until today.
Certain programs are acting like they aren't launching, but at about 5-10 minutes later, they finally launch. Even the Recycle Bin took about 5 minutes to come up. However, Firefox launches immediately.
4GB of RAM
AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor @ 3.00 GHz
64 bit
Any help is much appreciated! Thank you!
Time to look into msconfig and see what you have in the Start file.
Un check everything but AV and software you want to launch at startup.
Launch the recycle bin and then Task Manager > Processes. Maybe you can see what's turning in rounds. I would also have a look into the Event Viewer. Maybe you can discover some unusual errors.
Getting ready to try that. Left the NVIDIA display driver and Avast running. Reboot inc.
There's a spike in performance under task manager when I click the Recycle Bin, however, the spike in CPU drops immediately and the Recycle Bin still does not load. I'm waiting for it to come up in about 3 minutes from now ...
I went into MSconfig and disabled the start processes with the exception of the display driver and the avast AV.
442 errors in the past hr under the Event Viewer.
"The device, \Device\Harddisk3\DR3, has a bad block."
A lot of them are similar to this.
Recycle Bin Icon - Allow or Prevent to Display
Use this tutorial to allow re-cycle bin to display
I've disabled the avast, but I can't terminate the program from the background. It states that I do not have permission- even though I'm the administrator.
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