I think to reinstall windows is the best way, but I just wanted to try everything else before I did that.
I don't have an original Windows disc, when I bought the PC it asked me to create a disc of some kind when I first started windows, so I'm assuming this would be the correct disc, if not I can use the link in the previous reply.
Hi
if Avast is experiencing problems then your comp will slow down.
Its likely churning away trying to fix its self, could be file corruption or malware
Before you run the clean install remove it
(via safe mode using their own tool)
see if that helps
Roy
Am using Home Premium.
Firstly though I will remove Avast and see if that has any affect, otherwise I will do a reinstall of windows.
If I used one of the files above to download windows 7 I'm assuming I would just need to enter my product key to activate it?
1. Boot into winpe
2. Open regedit
3. Click Hkey_Local_Machine key to highlight it
3. Click File >Load hive
4. Browse to your windows partition ( it might show as C from winpe, more likely D). You browse to d:\windows\system32\config and select the SYSTEM hive.
5. Regedit will ask you give it a name, anything you like e.g. SYS will do.
Now look under the Hkey_Local_Machine key and you will see SYS is loaded.
You can then browse through SYS making any changes to keys and values, when you have finished, click SYS to highlight it. Then File>Unload hive.
Sounds like a lot of steps, but only takes a few seconds to do.
Boot into winpe. Open Regedit.
Highlight HKLM
Click File>Load Hive
Browse to your \Windows\System32\config folder and select the SYSTEM hive
Give it a name e.g. SYS
And there she is
Then you can search SYS for the driver name and change the start type to 4 (disabled), You can use the EDIT>FIND function to search the hive.The Driver name might be in more than one place, so have a good look.
3rd party tools can help. After you have loaded the hive, you can use regscanner to find things ( regscanner is included in my winpe media)
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