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I dont know what to make out of what's been going on with my computer, but i'll explain what's been happening. To start off, I'll tell you my specs. I run an AMD athloth 1600+ Processor, 256 RAM, Geforce FX5600 Ultra video card, and 80 gigs of hard drive space with plenty to spare. Also, I run 2 operating systems. My 80 gig is particitioned into 2 drives, each 40 gigs, a C and D drives. Windows 98 is on the C drive, and Windows XP is on the D drive.
Lately, I've been having problems in XP, especially my internet explorer has been giving me problems. Everything is just acting real sluggish, it's even taking a while for text to appear in this box as a type in it. If i try to watch a video that's in quick time from IGN or something, my computer sometimes locks the window up, and I have to close it, after locking up for a few minutes. Since yesterday, I've been getting a weird problem, as if my mouse was clicking or right clicking on it's own. Or my browser would like go back, and i didnt hit the back button. Sometimes my mouse would just sit there, and not move for a minute, with no window highlighted. I really dont understand this. I've upgraded my virus protection, and scanned my computer twice, and have found nothing!
The only thing that's unusual that's caught my eye, is in my program files on the D drive, part of windows XP. There is a folder called Xerox and inside that folder is another folder called nwwia. Inside that, there is nothing. When I'm in XP, and try to delete, it wont let me, it says it's being used by another program. When I am in windows 98, I can delete it, however, when I go back on XP, the folder just reappears. Now that is fishy! But my nortan antivirus program still isnt finding anything. I dont understand this, and dont know what I can do to fix it. I'm lost ><
To make this all short, my computer is acting annoying, sluggish, and having issues, and I dont know why.
Edit: By the way, I forgot, another problem I've run into, is my browser's homepage has been changing. Today it didnt do it, but a few times, after I've restarted my computer, my homepage has changed to globalfinder.com, my homepage SHOULD'VE been gamefaqs.com. I am also noticing, some sites that never had pop ups, are getting them.
Lately, I've been having problems in XP, especially my internet explorer has been giving me problems. Everything is just acting real sluggish, it's even taking a while for text to appear in this box as a type in it. If i try to watch a video that's in quick time from IGN or something, my computer sometimes locks the window up, and I have to close it, after locking up for a few minutes. Since yesterday, I've been getting a weird problem, as if my mouse was clicking or right clicking on it's own. Or my browser would like go back, and i didnt hit the back button. Sometimes my mouse would just sit there, and not move for a minute, with no window highlighted. I really dont understand this. I've upgraded my virus protection, and scanned my computer twice, and have found nothing!
The only thing that's unusual that's caught my eye, is in my program files on the D drive, part of windows XP. There is a folder called Xerox and inside that folder is another folder called nwwia. Inside that, there is nothing. When I'm in XP, and try to delete, it wont let me, it says it's being used by another program. When I am in windows 98, I can delete it, however, when I go back on XP, the folder just reappears. Now that is fishy! But my nortan antivirus program still isnt finding anything. I dont understand this, and dont know what I can do to fix it. I'm lost ><
To make this all short, my computer is acting annoying, sluggish, and having issues, and I dont know why.
Edit: By the way, I forgot, another problem I've run into, is my browser's homepage has been changing. Today it didnt do it, but a few times, after I've restarted my computer, my homepage has changed to globalfinder.com, my homepage SHOULD'VE been gamefaqs.com. I am also noticing, some sites that never had pop ups, are getting them.
. why would you keep both 98 and xp installed? just get rid of 98 and use that disk to store program files, and the other for xp and general files like txt, doc, other non-important files (ones that don't like speed, games like speed, so do video editing software, but office files don't.....). get some more ram (i like saying that over and over again), and update the internet explorer to 6.0 with newest patchs. that took care of my IE problems.
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