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alison Downsizer Moderator
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Sarah D
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 05 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Clean Loading |
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alison wrote: |
I have been blue screening with alarming frequency recently, as well as changing my modem, installing firefox and a few other tweeks, nothing is that much better.
I was wondering about saving all my documents and favourites list and wiping the hard disk and only installing what I really need, rather than having all the bits that never get completely taken off, lurking in the background.
What do you think.
Mad idea, or is there a better wat of helping it to run smoother. |
Blue screening these days is more likely to be a hardware fault.
Simply having a ton of software on a machine does not render it unstable.
What will render it unstable in terms of software is "malware" "scumware" call it what you will. You will likely know if you have this, by looking at the Favourites list in Internet Eplorer for stuff you did not put there, or if you have extra toolbars in explorer, or you get popup advertising in additon to the usual crap.
Possible hardware faults, or temperature being too high, as your system fans have become poorly. Or potentially bad memory chips.
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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culpepper
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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