My computer has excessive amounts of popups [innappropriate ones] and it runs extremely slowly. I know there is something wrong with it. I have Windows XP and its on a laptop. I do not have the restore CD. Is there any other way I can restore my computer to the way it was when I first got it without having to make a purchase?
I dont know what to do!!!!
2007-11-05 13:55:35 · 9 answers · asked by Lina 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
You computer manufacturer should be able to provide you with a basic software CD. But you have to reformat your hard-drive and reload everything from scratch. This is not a task for a novice. Have a computer store do it for you. And when they do, don't let anyone borrow you computer and go to inappropriate sites, or it may happen again.
2007-11-05 14:01:31 · answer #1 · answered by GoodGuy53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this order. Make sure that your pop-up blocker is enabled. When windows starts up it should have no more than 10 programs that get loaded at startup (Google - msconfig) You can also Google how to optimize my windows xp and you will receive a variety of articles that will help immensely. Contact the mfr and see if they can send a new recovery disk or just "ask around"
2007-11-05 22:01:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the manufacturer. They can usually ship you a replacement restore cd for a nominal fee. Usually $15 - $20. It's not free, but it's cheap enough to be a good way to go.
2007-11-05 21:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Modest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, novice user, you are infected with many spywares, malwares, adwares that entered by downloading, going threw websites without Siteadvisors, having absolutely no protection, toptenreviews.com (Click on software) , and you can buy one of those anti-viruses or anti-spywares, download it, install it, scan, and remove, or you have less than 30% disk space or your registry/directories are corrupted and have too many cookies, use TuneUP utilities 2007, google it up, free trialing anti-spywares are just limited to what they do and cannot remove all spywares,adwares,malwares,trojans, and free anti-viruses may not be as good or have a free trial like anti-spywares or just scans or its just a spyware itself, so you can either Optimize, Purchase/Try Softwares/Buy the CD or get one from a friend's/Contact a computer technician and recieve the same advice. And detailed diagonsis suggests you go to tools and remove all that ActiveX (Like plaque on your teeth) of ads.
2007-11-05 22:20:11 · answer #4 · answered by ScorpiaX 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the computer is infected with malware\spyware.
Download and run two free programs that find and eliminate most of this.
Ad-Aware [http://www.lavasoftusa.com/] and Spybot Search and Destroy [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html].
2007-11-05 22:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by Fed-up 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be your Protection as in Virus protection sotware like Norton (which sucks) or macfee these are pop up blockers/virus protecters they may be out of date and arn't blocking your pop ups.
My suggestion:
Redeem your virus protection software by looking it up in your computer. (or) get a new software.
2007-11-05 21:59:53 · answer #6 · answered by frozensolder58 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm how many porn sites did you go to exactly? well you probally have a trojan virus and unless you take care of it quickly your screwed like hard core. so like run a virul sweep across your computer with your security software.
2007-11-05 22:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by skate4eva899 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look for system restore on your computer, it depends on which version of XP you have.
2007-11-05 22:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by dj12brown1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that you need the disk that came with the PC.
2007-11-05 21:59:02 · answer #9 · answered by Steve B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋