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previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:11 am
Posted by ernie
(191 messages posted)
I am working with an older Gateway laptop that has Windows XP. The computer is
extremely slow and sluggish - however, no viruses or malware, hard drive has been
defragged, temp int files cleaned up, etc. I loaded Avira virus protection since
the Norton on the computer is not up to date; however, now it takes forever to load,
open a program, get on the internet, etc. because i think of the interference that
I believe that happens because of the Norton program. Anyway, I want to go back
to a previous date when the computer was much less sluggish (like last weekend) but
want to make sure I do it correctly. Exactly where do I find this? Safe mode?
Thanks for your help!
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re: previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:53 am
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
You should actually do something else first, open the Task Manager and look at your
cpu utilization when nothing else is running. It should be a very low number. Observe
if any process has a high % (excluding System Idle).
On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:11 am, ernie wrote:
>I am working with an older Gateway laptop that has Windows XP. The computer is
>extremely slow and sluggish - however, no viruses or malware, hard drive has been
>defragged, temp int files cleaned up, etc. I loaded Avira virus protection since
>the Norton on the computer is not up to date; however, now it takes forever to load,
>open a program, get on the internet, etc. because i think of the interference that
>I believe that happens because of the Norton program. Anyway, I want to go back
>to a previous date when the computer was much less sluggish (like last weekend)
but
>want to make sure I do it correctly. Exactly where do I find this? Safe mode?
>Thanks for your help!
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re: previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 8:07 am
Posted by ernie
(191 messages posted)
Thank you for your reply. I am familiar with the task mgr and agree with your suggestion.
However, I was able to access the place just before safe mode where it asks if I
want to go to a restore point. I set it to go back a couple of weeks and the computer
is now doing so. After that, I will go to the task mgr and check out the percentages.
The two together hopefully will help. Thanks again.
On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:53 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>You should actually do something else first, open the Task Manager and look at your
>cpu utilization when nothing else is running. It should be a very low number. Observe
>if any process has a high % (excluding System Idle).
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>
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re: previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 10:33 am
Posted by ernie
(191 messages posted)
The restore thing worked fine. Accessing the task manager, I noticed several items
under 'process
On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 8:07 am, ernie wrote:
>Thank you for your reply. I am familiar with the task mgr and understand that clicking
on 'end process' for items not necessary that use lots of memory will make a computer
faster at startup but am unsure what some mean and dont want to end a process that
is a necessary one. The ones with large numbers include IEExplorer (I'm using it,
though), ccapp.exe, explorer.exe, usmon.exe and svchost.exe. Which do I not need
and how can I make sure those I don't need remain closed on startup? What others
can I also close permanently? Thanks.
> However, I was able to access the place just before safe mode where it asks if
I
>want to go to a restore point. I set it to go back a couple of weeks and the computer
>is now doing so. After that, I will go to the task mgr and check out the percentages.
> The two together hopefully will help. Thanks again.
>
>
>
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re: previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 11:41 am
Posted by normanw
(1284 messages posted)
Check this.
‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there always has been, so far.’ – Keith Waterhouse
On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:11 am, ernie wrote:
>I am working with an older Gateway laptop that has Windows XP. The computer is
>extremely slow and sluggish - however, no viruses or malware, hard drive has been
>defragged, temp int files cleaned up, etc. I loaded Avira virus protection since
>the Norton on the computer is not up to date; however, now it takes forever to load,
>open a program, get on the internet, etc. because i think of the interference that
>I believe that happens because of the Norton program. Anyway, I want to go back
>to a previous date when the computer was much less sluggish (like last weekend)
but
>want to make sure I do it correctly. Exactly where do I find this? Safe mode?
>Thanks for your help!
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re: previous date/restore point
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Posted by ernie
(191 messages posted)
thanks
On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 11:41 am, normanw wrote:
>Check this.
>
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> ‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there always has been, so far.’ – Keith Waterhouse
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