Windows XP Computer Overall Slow, Freezing & Locking Up.

Anonymous
2012-10-19T01:37:46+00:00

My Mom's Windows XP Computer is overall slow, freezing & locking up mostly all the time. I don't have the money right now to pay for Premium Support through Microsoft to get it fixed. Can anybody please help me get this issue resolved immediately! It's been like this for a while. I just want my mom's computer to run normally like any other computer would. Please! Let me know. I appreciate it. Thanks.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-08T15:41:31+00:00

    Oh, I know all that. :-)

    The reason I decided not to recommend that site was not for my benefit but for the benefit of Mark and others who would see that ad and then think that in order to run the test they would need to click on that link first!

    It's just like when we suggest MBAM and the poster winds up at Major Geeks and sees what looks like to be an instruction to first "click here" to scan for errors.

    I seem to recall a link you gave for something useful a few months ago and the poster wound up downloading something entirely different! You need to remember most posters here are nowhere near as knowledgeable as you! Thus they are more likely to see something and become confused and wind up doing something you didn't intend for them to do!

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-08T20:27:23+00:00

    How true, especially when instructions are clearly given! :) You are very patient, Daavee, more so than I.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-09T13:30:39+00:00

    ElderL, I wanted to ask you a question. I already asked daavee about this but I didn't know if you would have the answer to the problem. When I watch a video game stream on twitch.tv, Madden NFL 13 or NHL 13 or anything else, the feed is not consistent. It jumps from time to time. It's not a normal feed or consistent feed to watch. How can I resolve the problem? Let me know. I appreciate it. Thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-11-10T10:04:10+00:00

    Why don't you start a new topic/thread/question with just this issue?

    You could include in that a link from the address bar of your browser back to this topic as a reference.

    Starting a new topic will get more eyeballs on your issue and some fresh ideas.

    I am generally not keen to read topics that go past two or three pages - too much stuff to look through.

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