My computer keeps freezing

[Slim]

I have to keep restarting it. Any advice boys? Might use My Clean PC dot com. Saw a commercial for it the other day.

[vcj16]

use system restore to an earlier date

[BadNina]

I am not technical savvy but it's gonna die...............

[Slim]

use system restore to an earlier date

I did that a few times already.

[vcj16]

try the free norton virus scan if you have comcast

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

I did that a few times already.

Grab a flash drive backup everything you need on the flash drive.

Then get your resource cd's that came with the computer and reinstall the operating system on the computer. Takes a total of about 40 minutes and your computer will run and appear the way it did the first day you bought it. IE no programs on it or nothing, brand new. I'd explain why you should do this once every 2 years and why your computer is freezing but i don't have the time, but i gave you the best solution.

[benjy]

MBAM is the best free anti-virus stuff I know of. It's saved me a number of times.

[playersonly69]

MycleanPc.com is somewhat of a scam. It is a waste of money and they will try and charge you again each month

[alling]

If the computers old say at least 3 years buy a new one or take it in to get it fixed.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

If the computers old say at least 3 years buy a new one or take it in to get it fixed.

Its people like this that keep IT guys in business, theyll charge you $150 for something a 4 year old cud do with a 4 step instruction manual.

[L2Gunz]

Stop visiting porn sites!!!

[chilidog]

Download ccleaner from ccleaner.com, and have it clean up your computer for you. It's a really good free program - highly recommended.

[msubulldog]

go to majorgeeks and sign up it's free. after you join they have forums and will help. have several steps and free programs to download in the malware removal forum. just follow the instructions and post problem if their downloads do not work and they will help you.

[stevek173]

Grab a flash drive backup everything you need on the flash drive.

Then get your resource cd's that came with the computer and reinstall the operating system on the computer. Takes a total of about 40 minutes and your computer will run and appear the way it did the first day you bought it. IE no programs on it or nothing, brand new. I'd explain why you should do this once every 2 years and why your computer is freezing but i don't have the time, but i gave you the best solution.

What he said, but try the ccleaner or easycleaner (which you can get on downloads.com, free) is good for deleting bad files too. But if neither of these work, than this. You might simply need more RAM too, which is cheap.

And only look at porn you pay for. The free sites will **** your shit up.

[Naz18]

Windows has built in tools to help you clean up your PC and make it faster.

Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools and use "Disk Cleanup" after that run "Disk Defragmentation"

Then run do a scan for a virus with the many free available programs online, and lastly clean your registry with ccleaner like some guy above recommended.

[JimmysEgo]

re-install the operating system then backup your hard drive. or maybe it's the other way around.

[Flight]

Regardless of recovery method, please do not pay a company to "cleanyourpc.com"

Total scams and they piss me off to know end. I have reverse engineered their software and it is literally useless. Makes me so sad when I see people like my parents go out and buy that junk.

Your best bet is to completely reformat and reinstall your Operating System. You can do it yourself for free, all it takes is the CD.

[unde0087]

too much porn will get you everytime

[Bluehorseshoe]

Go to download. com and download "Glary utilities", "Super Anti Spyware" and "Malware bytes". Run each one and see if you computer gets better.

[philswin]

Make sure your not overheating, make sure your fan is operating

[bobbyfk]

use System Restore and Restore it to an earlier date when it was working fine

[hokim]

There are many reasons at many levels.

My most recent cause was Adobe Flash Player.

If yours is an old version, it's a good start to update it.

[Sam Odom]

some bugs will attack the "restore" also or can even hide and come back after restore is finished

many times it is just easier and better to reformat and install a fresh Windoz

[chilidog]

Go to download. com and download "Glary utilities", "Super Anti Spyware" and "Malware bytes". Run each one and see if you computer gets better.

Yup

Since I'm known as the 'computer guy' amongst the family, and all of their friends, etc., people come to me all the time to fix their computers. I pretty much just take a can of compressed air with me, and a CD/DVD with glary, super anti spyware, malware bytes, ccleaner, and defraggler. I rarely have to do a system restore or an OS reload. Just clean their system, and educate them a bit on the dangers of installing the crappy free toolbars that plague the net, in order to install some new cursor or animated smilies for their msn messenger, etc.

[jjgold]

Buy a new one guy, no other way around it.

[alling]

Its people like this that keep IT guys in business, theyll charge you $150 for something a 4 year old cud do with a 4 step instruction manual.

average life of a computer is between 4-5 years

http://www.indyice.com/2010/10/24/what-is-the-average-life-of-a-computer/

like I said if you old computer is slow buy a new one

[tenbas]

Disk format.

[jjgold]

4-5 years is the most you can get out of a computer

Macs 8 years

[blackbeSSt]

at some of the responses here. i'd love to be the IT person in you guys town!

like was said earlier, if you have access to some compressed air crack that bitch open and hit it a couple times with the air. mainly the fans and around the heatsink.

then you need to download malwarebytes and install and run it.

another good free online program is http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

other then that, what kinda specs you got on it? or a rough year range would suffice too.

[sundin4prez]

whatever you do stay the hell away from myclean pc..... system restore or reformate or download avast and malwarebytes and run them in safe mode...

[blackbeSSt]

4-5 years is the most you can get out of a computer

Macs 8 years

not if you know how to replace and upgrade parts its not! i've been building and selling computers on the side for over 13 years. i've never and will never buy a pre-made computer

[spartangreen]

clean your history, AVG has a good free anti virus

[blueghost]

mine 6 yrs old was working fine then shutting down every 5 minutes.already did all the stuff the posters mentioned here ,all these solutions are just temporary,went to fixit comp shop asked him what he thought it might be he said could be power supply,harddrive.video card he'd have to see it.asked me how old it was and his recomm was to get a new one save time and money in long run GOOD LUCK

[blackbeSSt]

mine 6 yrs old was working fine then shutting down every 5 minutes.already did all the stuff the posters mentioned here ,all these solutions are just temporary,went to fixit comp shop asked him what he thought it might be he said could be power supply,harddrive.video card he'd have to see it.asked me how old it was and his recomm was to get a new one save time and money in long run GOOD LUCK

very true. but its always best to try the free stuff first. if you aren't computer literate enough to check the psu,hd,video,cpu,ram, etc., then try the simple stuff before you go the new computer route. and you don't wanna get charged for a tech to knock some dust out that was causing it to overheat

[lonesomeloser]

put it next to a heater and it should be fine