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Kyrie · 07-09-2004, 07:45 PM

So my bro seriously neglected computer maintenance issues on his PC for just under a year, and the resulting problems caused me to have to do a system restore a few days ago. It seemed to keep everything in the "My Documents" folder, and the Start Menu was unchanged, but everything else was wiped clean and restored to defaults.

Aaaaanyway, I did my best to clean up the system after the restore through Ad-Aware, defrag, compression, etc etc but the machine's STILL running terribly slowly, freezing up, getting popups all over the place, and generally being a pain. Anyone know how to remedy this? For the record, it's a Compaq Presario running on a Pentium 4, 2.40GHz with 504MB of RAM with Windows XP Home Edition. If that helps.

And if someone could tell me how to take stuff off of the Start menu, that'd be cool too. I know absolutely nothing about Windows XP (and quite frankly, just don't like it very much) and very little about PCs in general, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

07-09-2004, 07:45 PM	#1
Kyrie Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Age: 40 Posts: 95	Computer issues So my bro seriously neglected computer maintenance issues on his PC for just under a year, and the resulting problems caused me to have to do a system restore a few days ago. It seemed to keep everything in the "My Documents" folder, and the Start Menu was unchanged, but everything else was wiped clean and restored to defaults. Aaaaanyway, I did my best to clean up the system after the restore through Ad-Aware, defrag, compression, etc etc but the machine's STILL running terribly slowly, freezing up, getting popups all over the place, and generally being a pain. Anyone know how to remedy this? For the record, it's a Compaq Presario running on a Pentium 4, 2.40GHz with 504MB of RAM with Windows XP Home Edition. If that helps. And if someone could tell me how to take stuff off of the Start menu, that'd be cool too. I know absolutely nothing about Windows XP (and quite frankly, just don't like it very much) and very little about PCs in general, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!