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  1. HP Mini 1000

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Hey guys,

    This place has always helped me in years past, and for that I am so thankful!

    I have a new question for everyone:

    So I have a HP Mini 1000 1030NR, with windows XP. Me and a friend recently took it apart to inspect the hard drive inside it, since we thought the hard drive inside might be bigger than the system was reporting. My friend has experience taking laptops apart, and didn't force anything out. He has the tools to do it, all that jazz.

    Now, upon booting it up, the screen is completely blank. I can't remember if we had it working in between the time we put it back together or not - but regardless, I'm still having this problem. The power, network, trackpad, and AC power lights all light up, as well as the fan, but nothing appears on the screen. We took it apart again and checked to make sure the cable for the monitor was plugged in and that there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Everything looks fine on the inside.

    I googled this - and have found out there are lots of other HP Mini users who have run into this issue. Some of them claim that you should "reset" the memory. Some say to take out the CMOS battery. Some of them say you can even get it to work by plugging chargable device (such as a cell phone) and turning the PC off and on at the same time. Lots of these people seem to have gotten results.

    The manual says if the screen is blank the device may not be set to display the image on the device screen. It says to push fn + f2. I did that and nothing happened.

    Do any of you have any thoughts? Do you think it's something that we physically did to disconnect the monitor? Or something a little more complex?

    Thank you so much!!

  2. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Wow, whatever driver you found worked very nicely. I no longer lag when watching videos, scrolling is not slow, and everything is running much smoother. My start menu even loads faster. I thought the driver I installed was the only one available - for some reason I couldn't find the Catalyst Driver that I used to have. In order to get it to work, however, I had to download .NET framework 2.0.

    Thank you everyone all for all your help and suggestions! I'm so happy to have my computer back to normal.

  3. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Well, my system information says "Radeon 9500 Pro/ 9700 Family (Microsoft Corporation)" however, when I customized my purchase years ago I remember it was one of those (either 9500 or 9700) but it wasn't a PRO. Also, I definitely know that title has changed since I updated the drivers and rolled back since ATI doesn't support it any more. It never used to say Microsoft Corporation.

  4. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    The only thing that is really using any CPU is the task manager. Task manager is what you took a screen shot of. What exactly is slow about your computer?

    Everything has a delay, including when I click on the start menu, I have to wait for the programs to appear. Whenever I am scrolling, whether online or in a word document for example, the screen has to "catch up." Any sort of video is very laggy; youtube is out of the question all together.

    Your list is normal. Reenable your updaters. How much memory does the computer have? In fact how old is this computer and what is the model number?

    I've got one gig of memory in there; even though this is an eight year old desktop (Dell Dimension Desktop 4550) I have never experienced this before. It has never been this slow in all the years I have had it.

    If this is a laptop, check the power settings.

    This is not a laptop, so I suppose that wouldn't be the issue? One thing I have definitely noticed is an increase in the number of svchost.exe's, but people continue to say that's normal. I will say that my video card drivers have rolled back , as the ATI drivers I used to use are not available any more, and so now I am using the default ones from Microsoft Corporation. Could this be contributing to the laggy programs and laggy video?

  6. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Gladly! How about a screenshot instead? I whited out my name, so that's why you've got some strange blotches under the user name tab. It's attached.

    I will update you on the Dell support - they have still been unable to figure things out. Tonight we tried uninstalling SP3 to see if that might have been slowing things down. We also tried disconnecting my wireless. I turned off any automatic updates from going on in the background, since I read somewhere that multiple svchost.exe's can mean that you've got automatic updates stuck in a loop. Still, my CPU spikes for no apparent reason, even when not a single program is running (unlike what's in the screenshot).

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  7. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    I contacted Dell with this issue and they helped me remotely. They said there is nothing more they can do. My computer still runs way too slow for a brand new installation of windows. There are still plenty of system processes causing my CPU to spike. I turned off all automatic updates for both Windows and AVG but still have plenty of svchost.exe's. Any thoughts?

  9. Outlook 2010

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    So I recently purchased the new Office 2010 from my school. I am dealing with a particular issue with the new Outlook. Both Outlook 2007 and 2010 have an easy method to set up your gmail (or other email accounts) with office. My gmail is synced with Outlook every time I get a new email/send, or whatever. My issue is that now I have an Outlook Data File in addition to a gmail account. This means there are duplicates of inbox, sent folders, etc. Sometimes when I type a new email and save it, the draft goes to the Outlook Data File and not the gmail draft folder. Is there a way to merge them? I tried deleting the Outlook Data file but it won't let me. I even tried uninstalling Outlook, but I can't get rid of it.

    Thanks for any help!

  10. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Thanks for responding.

    There actually isn't much trail software with this installation. Maybe it's because I didn't have all the CD's that came with the computer and had to add a lot of stuff manually.

    Yes, I definitely have way too many svchost processes running. I looked into that actually - and read online about what you are saying. The site basically said that was an issue before Microsoft released a new update for XP that should take care of it. I have been using windows update a lot, and it says everything is current, and yet my CPU is still overrun by svchost...

    Suggestions?

  11. Slow XP

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Hello everyone. I haven't posted here in years, but I remember how incredibly helpful you guys were in helping me deal with a major issue. I couldn't even remember the name of this site! I had to google my own user name.

    So I've been dealing with my old desktop for the past few weeks. I was getting a bluescreen upon booting, and after much failed troubleshooting, I had to reinstall windows. I've been on the phone with Dell a lot, trying to work through everything, including the installation (drivers were giving me a hard time).

    I have a fresh new copy of XP installed, and just recently went through updates for SP2 and SP3. The strangest thing is - my computer is actually SLOWER than my previous installation. My CPU spikes to 100, and even when things are closed I'm still up to 30-50%. I googled setting up your system processes so that they don't run until they are needed, but I'm a little hesitant to mess with anything.

    Do you need a hijack this log or something?

    Thank you so much!

  13. Windows Firewall Settings

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Great news. The problem is fixed, and I have yet to reformat. This is what worked, from Geeks To Go.

    I am however, looking into reformatting anyways. Everyone I have talked to recommeded it. I haven't done so in a year!

    Hi, macfreeman7 :)

    The steps that I am about to suggest involve modifying the registry. Modifying the registry can be dangerous so we will make a backup of the registry first.

    Modification of the registry can be EXTREMELY dangerous if you do not know exactly what you are doing so follow the steps that are listed below EXACTLY. if you cannot preform some of these steps or if you have ANY questions please ask BEFORE proceeding.

    Backing Up Your Registry

    1. Go Here and download ERUNT
      (ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) is a free program that allows you to keep a complete backup of your registry and restore it when needed.)
    2. Install ERUNT by following the prompts
      (use the default install settings but say no to the portion that asks you to add ERUNT to the start-up folder, if you like you can enable this option later)
    3. Start ERUNT
      (either by double clicking on the desktop icon or choosing to start the program at the end of the setup)
    4. Choose a location for the backup
      (the default location is C:\WINDOWS\ERDNT which is acceptable).
    5. Make sure that at least the first two check boxes are ticked
    6. Press OK
    7. Press YES to create the folder.

    Registry Modifications

    Download the enclosed file:

    Extract its contents to your desktop. It is a registry entries file. Once extracted, doubleclick on the RepairAppInit.reg file and select Yes when prompted to merge this file into your registry.

    Go to Start->Run, type CMD and click Ok. At the MSDOS prompt type the following pressing Enter after each line:

    SC Stop WMIPervAddOn

    SC Delete WMIPervAddOn

    Exit

    Restart the computer.

    Check if the Firewall settings are no longer greyed. If unable to change the settings, go to Start->Run, type Services.msc and click Ok. Scroll down to Windows Firewall and right click on it. Select Properties. Make sure the service is Started and that the startup type is Automatic.

    Please post a fresh Hijackthis log and let us know how things went.

    Thank you so much to all those who have been a huge help, especially Jeff, Matt, TheTerrorist_75, and others.

  21. Windows Firewall Settings

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    As of today, I am using AVG. Yesterday, I removed Norton 06 and all of it's componants. I choose not to use other firewalls beside's Windows, however, if Windows firewall is ever turned off, then I will have to use something else. It is currently ON, but I do not have easy access to change it.

    I checked services. Everything you mentioned is running, but I'm not sure about automatic. How do I tell? The one thing that is NOT running is RPC Locator.

  23. Windows Firewall Settings

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Good idea. I just did, but Windows can't start the firewall service. Something like ICS or ISC service, I guess because it's in safe mode. I did safe mode with networking, but couldn't get online. I also noticed alot of things were disabled, like there wasn't any start menu and some things were just blank, such as Search. I did however make plenty of shortcuts to get to them again, such as Windows Firewall settings.

    Thoughts?