I'm stuck! How do I correct these computer glitches?

Question

First, I'm trying to get 'Yahoo' off of my home screen! I'm trying to see my screen saver and this 'Yahoo Home Page' thing is covering it up and I can't get rid of it! Second, My computer screen keeps shutting down! Sometimes, I'll be typing away on answers and right before I get to the end of a question or statement this 'Error Report' comes and the screen slowly scrolls away, from top to bottom and I lose everthing! This happens like every five minutes or so! Can I fix this?I'm not a computer genious. Can someone help me? Please?

Answer 1

There might be a virus or malware installed in your system.. have a virus-scanner installed and run it to see if it fixes the problem. Also, go into Control Panel (click on Start Button --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs, check if there are any programs that you didn't specfically install, try removing them). Also try running an anti-spyware software and see whether any spyware is causing this problem... if this doesn't work, try Google search by typing in the problem... roughly like Screen Saver or computer shutdown etc. and see what shows up.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Answer 2

ctrl+alt+del...

Sounds like you're low RAM... That the image of your Browser doesn't disappear after you close it. This could be because for some odd reason somethings eating at your memory(virtually), or your computer is relatively out of date.

I'd recommend going to start-run... type 'msconfig' going to start up... looking at the list infront of you, and checking them all over on
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/wintask/

scroll half way down the page and look up all the processes(the names next to the checks) to see what's running at startup with your computer. You can uncheck everything you know that you 'Don't' need at start. Perhaps keep those things that you're not sure of for now. Later you can remove those aswell.

This is also a way you can eliminate spyware/adware from starting up at windows startup aswell.