Who can I get to look at my pc?

[Mrs B]

It runs like a piece of.......

takes 10 mins to load up after initial start up and im just generally fed up with it.

Im completely out of the loop after a family member who was in partnership with pcdream got bled dry by his scumbag partner

 

[Gramaisc]

wmr has been known to poke around inside these things.

 

[tek-monkey]

Were PCDream the ones next to Weatherspoons? Remember a few dodgy things about that lot!

Anyway. I can fix them, but don't have that much time lately. I suppose it depends what is wrong, for a start I'd recommend downloading spybot. Install that, check for updates, immunise the system then let it do a scan. What anti virus do you use?

 

[shoes]

WMR or gdavies although I haven't seen the latter on here since christmas...

 

[Mrs B]

Yes that was them.

Wicked ill give that a go, its got something called avg running on it but dont know if it actually works lol

 

[wmrcomputers]

MRS B - I would offer you a complete data backup, wipe your hdd, completely re-install windows and your data therefore putting you back like new, for the bargain price of £20 (usually £30 but things are quiet so I don't mind)


EDIT:- If you'd like it sorting tonight PM me your phone number and I'll contact you

 

[My Name is URL]

Must admit i've never used WMR but he seems a top bloke and his services are cheap as chips, especially with the great feedback he gets on here as well.

 

[kyoto49]

I can recommend Solo computers in Mill Steet, but not sure what he charges.

 

[Andreas Rex]

Must admit i've never used WMR

I have, and I would have no hesitation in trusting his judgement. AVG is defo the way to go, and, as tek says, spybot is a good idea after it's been installed.

 

[Wookie]

Me too, and I recommend him to all my friends.

 

[db]

i've only met wmr once but i would trust him to drive my car, date my mum, and babysit my children*



* i don't have any children

 

[Mrs B]

lol thanks for the advice, he is going to fix me up next week

 

[tek-monkey]

i've only met wmr once but i would trust him to drive my car, date my mum, and babysit my children*

Got any pics of your mum?

 

[wmrcomputers]

Thanks as always for the vote of confidence everyone

 

[gdavies]

sure WMR can sort it out if you do by any chance have any troubles WMR you know where i am, also if the pc takes ddr memory let me know as i have a bit spare which mrs b can have

 

[Mrs B]

thats very kind of you gdavies, im not sure if it is ddr, just had a look at the system info, i beleive its a bit of a dinosaur athlon xp 1.25 and 512mb

 

[gdavies]

athlon were good solid computers tbf if you want to find out if it is ddr memory if you download siw http://www.gtopala.com/download/siw.exe

basically it is a system info tool what will tell you everything you would ever need to know about your system all with the click of a button, it will tell you what speeds of memory will work and whats the most that dinosaur can take lol

 

[My Name is URL]

Must admit i've never used WMR

AVG is defo the way to go

I have recently (well a year ago) ditched AVG after many years of using and recommending it.

I now use Avast and I think its a lot better...

The reason I switched was my PC was having problems and it was a virus that AVG kept seeing but then wouldn't do anything about it. Worrying it got on there in the first place without being spotted.

Avast sorted the problem quickly and is a lot more user friendly / customisable / light running than AVG IMO.

 

[gdavies]

Must admit i've never used WMR

AVG is defo the way to go

I have recently (well a year ago) ditched AVG after many years of using and recommending it.

I now use Avast and I think its a lot better...

The reason I switched was my PC was having problems and it was a virus that AVG kept seeing but then wouldn't do anything about it. Worrying it got on there in the first place without being spotted.

Avast sorted the problem quickly and is a lot more user friendly / customisable / light running than AVG IMO.

a few anti virus programs i would recommend would be either of these

fprot - http://www.f-prot.com/
eset - http://www.eset.co.uk/
kaspersky - http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/
and the best one to pay for is yoggie gatekeeper - http://www.yoggie.com
but i do think that there site is not working of uplate

 

[darben]

MRS B - I would offer you a complete data backup, wipe your hdd, completely re-install windows and your data therefore putting you back like new.

Mrs B, WMR did a similar thing for us less than a couple of months ago and he very quickly and efficiently saved our computer (which we thought was totally borked) and the saved data all we had to do was re-install some programmes and have no hesitation in recommending him it was worth every penny.

A lot of peoples computers sometimes go slow as they don't delete temporary files and cookies regulary if your not already doing this it's well worth doing this to see if it speeds things up. When on the internet Click tools, then internet options, it will then give you an option to either delete browsing history/ temporary files etc..

also, go onto your control panel (from your start up bar) click Performance and maintenance, and select free up space on your hard disk etc..

when you've done all this select rearrange items on your hard disk which is also call defrag and let this run if required and it might help.

Also, if you've got a lot of photos stored this slows the computer so it's worth investing in a separate hard drive and storing them on that.