Computer problem.

[otto-san]

When I came home from school yesterday my computer got that grey "not responding" overlay over the entire screen and I couldn't ctrl-alt-del or anything. I turned off my computer and booted into safe mode, deleted some things, 'fixed' my registry and tried again.

Didn't work.

Tried defragmenting and deleting MORE things.

Appeared to work, but just made it take longer to freeze.

I am now in safe mode and I have changed my virtual memory settings to be system managed and am once again trying deleting, defragging with different programs, and removing junk files.

i doubt it will work and please tell me what may be going on

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[keonesan]

What exactly WAS not responding?

Explorer.exe?

Also that doesn't sound like a registry issue. You didn't go to those bullstuff fix your registry site tutorial things did you?

[otto-san]

What exactly WAS not responding?

Explorer.exe?

Also that doesn't sound like a registry issue. You didn't go to those bullstuff fix your registry site tutorial things did you?

Everything stopped responding. Everything.

no i did not.
I suspected it was lack of memory so I opened up about 40GB of memory, didn't work.
The registry program I used in the past doesn't work so I'm using a different one now and there are no bad reports on it?

[Col. Burton]

If you have a laptop, pick up the keyboard and see of you have any rust/stains/crumbs on the metal under it. If you have a desktop check the motherboard for dust or see if your fan is caked with dust or something.

[otto-san]

If you have a laptop, pick up the keyboard and see of you have any rust/stains/crumbs on the metal under it. If you have a desktop check the motherboard for dust or see if your fan is caked with dust or something.

Tried clearing dust already.

Things seem to be going well... Scanning my computer with malwarebytes and avast and apparently I have lots of malware?

[ShadowsfeaR]

Perhaps that was your first clue?

[otto-san]

Perhaps that was your first clue?

What was my first clue?

It started acting up after the 3/1/11 Windows Defender definition update.

And Windows Defender ALSO is no longer working, and doesn't automatically start in Safe Mode either. But it does start in normal boot and then this happens. Could this be the problem? Should I stay in safe mode until a windows update fixing it comes along?

[otto-san]

Can anyone direct me to a good free registry fix that doesn't have a limit to how many problems it can fix?

[nickbond1]

Try combofix.

EDIT: dat stuff is incredibly complicated, but it does fix registry errors.

[otto-san]

Try combofix.

Can anyone direct me to a good free registry fix that doesn't have a limit to how many problems it can fix?

[StarDust]

Anti Malwarebites
wat

[otto-san]

Anti Malwarebites
wat

What?
someone please help me

in safe mode the fans work harder and i'm afraid i may be doing my pc badly by staying in this

[nickbond1]

When did you get your comp?

[otto-san]

When did you get your comp?

I got it about four years ago and I got the best computer possible.

It was running fine, as I said earlier, until the update on 3/1/11, but I can't find a way to revert b--fasf.

Hold on let me see if I have a system restore point that's recent enough not to wipe everything I've done that's important in the last few months.


system restore doesn't start up in safe mode, what the heck is wrong with microsoft and certain programs running as a background program.

just took a long time

Well shoot.

The latest restore point for some reason is yesterday.

[otto-san]

small update

Apparently I'm a few versions behind on my graphics driver and windows error reports says things like that are problems and appears most as a reason.