Ok. My laptop is being stupid. Internet Explorer does not want to load, and like an idiot, I don't have another browser installed. I don't think it's a virus, 'cause I ran my virus check. It's not the ISP, 'cause Emily's computer works. Any ideas on how to get a copy of IE to try to reinstall?
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vw bug - Jun 15, 2006 1:59:24 am PDT #8315 of 10003
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DCJensen - Jun 15, 2006 3:53:29 am PDT #8316 of 10003
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The easiest would be to reinstall from a download from Microsoft. What verion of IE do you have? If IE 6, click this [link] .
And, if you have XP with Service Pack 2, you might consider IE 7 beta 2. Betas aren't for everyone, but there it is.
vw bug - Jun 15, 2006 4:47:52 am PDT #8317 of 10003
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The problem is, I can't download anything on that computer, 'cause it won't load. Can I download and burn to CD?
vw bug - Jun 15, 2006 5:51:02 am PDT #8318 of 10003
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Nebbermind. I downloaded it on a network computer and tried that. It didn't work, because it's actually an older version than is already on my computer. So, I downloaded Firefox. That seems to be working fine. But, the computer is still slow and whatnot. So, now I'm running spybot. We'll see. I think I'll run the virus checker again too. Something is definitely strange.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2006 6:03:17 am PDT #8319 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
vw, what OS does your laptop have? If Windows, I'd check the Processes tab of the Task Manager to see if anything's sucking all the CPU usage. If it's a Mac, you can use the 'top' command from a terminal window (ask me how if you don't know) to do the same thing.
vw bug - Jun 15, 2006 6:10:19 am PDT #8320 of 10003
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I've got Windows XP Professional.
vw bug - Jun 15, 2006 6:12:14 am PDT #8321 of 10003
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Ok. There are 42 processes, and the CPU Usage is ranging from 3-7%. Is that good? Bad? Normal?
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2006 6:17:53 am PDT #8322 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ok. There are 42 processes, and the CPU Usage is ranging from 3-7%. Is that good? Bad? Normal?
So then, the total CPU usage (at teh bottom of the window) is pretty low? and the System Idle Process is a high percentage?
Yeah, there are usually 40 or more processes, most with obscure names....
When the computer is acting slow, is there a lot of disk activity?
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2006 6:20:20 am PDT #8323 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and when the computer is acting slow, is the CPU usage low? or is the program you're using (IE, Firefox, etc.) high and everything else has a low CPU usage? (You can click on the head of the CPU column to sort the processes by CPU usage %.)
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2006 6:22:29 am PDT #8324 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and since it's a laptop, it might have some power-saving feature that slows the CPU down. Usually this only happens when not much is going on (it speeds up when there's a high demand for the CPU) but you might want to investigate your laptop's power-saving features and crank the CPU speed up if that's an option.