My computer has been acting odd lately.
It would all of a sudden stop. Stop dead. If there was harddrive chatter (I know the patterns for many programs.. I'm weird I know ) it would just stop. Then all of a sudden it would start up again as if nothing happened. I can't move the mouse or anything. It's like a normal comp freeze except it continues after a random period of time. It's almost as if it's going then stops, looks around, contemplates the meaning of life, then gets back to work.

I've done a virus scan and a spyware scan. Both came up that my comp was fine (except for the few tracking cookies).

Anyone know what the problem might be? It just started happening all of a sudden, and it happened with my old computer too. There is almost nothing in common between the two computers.

ACK! as I was typing this, it froze again for about 5 minutes...

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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

Is MSWord running, perchance?

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

*shudder* You read my mind. But it's been happening before that. But, it's been happening more frequently since I installed Office 2k off a disk I found in the big box o' cds. (I needed a word processor that had a good *cough* spellcheck and layout etc, and this was what came close...)

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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

If your running Win2k or Xp, load your task manager and look for 'findfast.exe'. if you find it, close it, and remove it from the startup folder. If your running 9x, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and look for it in that list...

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

Nope it's not in there, lemmie post what is listed (other than the things I know I'm running)

Ypager
Immap
Monwow
Csinsm32
Navapw32
Poproxy
Qttask
Sxgtkbar
Loadqm
Systray
Csinject
Cg16eh
Cgmenu

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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

[This message has been edited by Glyde Bane (edited April 15, 2004).]

Findfast plagued my last computer for the first year I had it. Annoyed the hell out of me...

Finally figured out what it was...

Fried that ****er

what is findfast for, anyway? (probably nothing good, since Microsoft made it, but what the hell?)



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Findfast was a stupid program that was shipped with older versions of MSOffice that was *supposed* to index your harddrive when the system was *idle*. Unfortunatly, it would start indexing whenyou were using it, casing system slowdowns.


I have 2 suggestions:
1) Uninstall Norton System Works. Seriously. Most of the programs in that suite are utterly useless. Keep the antivirus, but ditch the rest.
2) Uninstall MSN Messenger, or at least remove 'loadqm'. Loadqm is what is likely causing your problems.

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

[This message has been edited by GBK (edited April 15, 2004).]

Aight thanks. I'm using yahoo. I might get trillian.

BTW: If I were to get rid of norton system works, what should I get as a replacement? Like defragmentations and such
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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

[This message has been edited by Glyde Bane (edited April 15, 2004).]

Windows has a built-in defragger . . . unless your running NT4...

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

harhar thanks didn't see that.

ROFLMAO! In my story I have someone saying "Who are you?"
Office suggest it to be "Who is you?"

EDIT: Haha, now it's suggesting 'letting the wound bleed freely' to 'letting the wound bleeds free'

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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

[This message has been edited by Glyde Bane (edited April 15, 2004).]

My computer used to do this... it annoyed the hell out of me. I could never figure out what the cause was. It eventually stopped though.

Also, moving this to the technology forum.

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