03-11-2007, 08:52 AM
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| kats' british boy toy Honorary Crazed Psycho  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: England Age: 36
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My Mood:     | PC crashing like a mofo I have a real issue with my PC crashing.. real bad, it used to play up bad with only word and excel files, even though I have a kosher copy of office, now it seems that even certain actions on websites will cause the same kind of crash (even on non porn sites.. imagine that) I have this free version of nortons anti virus on my machine, which I am going to kill and see if that makes any difference, but I would of thought even nortons with its evilness would not cause a computer to crash.. non the less, the mac keeps on chugging along.. I hate to really say this.. but more and more.. I am becoming convinced that macs are far better than PC's.
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03-11-2007, 02:11 PM
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| One Very Hot Apple  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 29
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My Mood:  | Re: PC crashing like a mofo ha! its cause macs are better! which, i only now say because i too have recently owned a mac for the first time and have never encountered any of the same problems as i did with a PC... and Norton can definately cause crashing. its a huge complex program that windows doesnt always like.
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03-12-2007, 02:12 PM
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| Real Fantastic Bastard Crazed Patient of Psychosis  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Idaho Age: 29
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My Mood:  | Re: PC crashing like a mofo Macs are ok. If you're into SATAN. Norton is by far one of the worst software companies on the planet, they spend more money force marketing their product (especially through their butt monkey Best Buy) than they do trying to develop a system that will actually work with Windows without hampering it signifigantly. Especially the free version. That version alone will make people go out and buy a new computer, thinking the old one has died. That said, once you're rid of that monstrocity, head over to download.com, download CCleaner, and do a registry repair and clean up the programs and files you don't need. You ought to see a signifigant improvement in that.
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03-12-2007, 02:27 PM
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| Mondu's Sperm Bank  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 28
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My Mood:  | Re: PC crashing like a mofo Seems like McAfee is hit and miss every other generation of their software. One generation is perfect, so perfect I hardly realize it's even installed. The next it seems like I'd rather put a hammer through the HD to prevent viruses. On Friday, I updated my parents computer to McAfee's current engine and I think it completely fubared their computer. I haven't solved the problem yet, might not be McAfee, might be a bad HD.
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03-13-2007, 08:00 AM
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| Bam's Bish Site Owner  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Private Age: 30
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My Mood:  | Re: PC crashing like a mofo which brings me to the ultimate question......... what ferking antivirus program should one invest in? (or free possibly) What spyware product is best (free possibly) What popup blocker is best (free possibly) how about what is the best free programs, and what are the best priced programs? This is where I have my problem. I dont know what to invest in, and so I keep using for shit programs. :sad
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03-13-2007, 08:43 AM
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| Krazed Addicted Master  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Private Age: 30
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03-13-2007, 09:39 AM
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| Luke's Lovely Lady Administrator  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia Age: 29
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My Mood:  | Re: PC crashing like a mofo I use AVG Free Addition ... it scans daily when you want it too and also looks for daily updates if needed - you just have to set the times for it! It got rid of alot of shit that McAfee DIDN'T find!
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03-16-2007, 04:44 AM
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| kats' british boy toy Honorary Crazed Psycho Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: England Age: 36
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My Mood: | Re: PC crashing like a mofo I ditched nortons, updated the drivers, I will have a go a the registry.. although I would be shocked if that would be an issue. as this is after a complete wipe and re install, the hard drive that xp is on, worked fine in my old pc, and the new pc has always had this issue to a lesser or greater degree, my gut feeling now lies in that it might be the graphics card, I will try it with another graphics card once I get my grubby mits on it
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04-03-2007, 03:13 PM
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| kats' british boy toy Honorary Crazed Psycho Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: England Age: 36
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My Mood: | Re: PC crashing like a mofo other graphics card installed.. everything seems ok so far... just need to put it through some scrolling on excel which always seemed to bugger it up before.
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