Recent content by oaktown311

Yea I just did another virus scan yesterday w/ an updated version of PC Tools Anti-Virus and it found nothing. Spyware doctor found about 5 things which I removed, but none seemed to be high threat. I have Spybot, and I went to the processes part, but that just kills them for the time being...

Can someone remind me how to get to the place where you can manage your processes. I just checked out task manager and there is 55 total processes, many of which I don't even know what they are, which always worries me. Definately going to have to go through and remove several of these from...

Allright, I will definately go through my processes then. AIM might have to go, as unfortunate as it may be. Eventually what I plan on doing is formatting my new drive, reinstalling Windows XP (or Vista if I can afford it) and starting over with the exception of my music and a few important...

Yea Windows must be handling it cause I haven't set it myself. I have several processes running, but the one most recently added was a newly upgraded version of AIM. Could it be this new version of AIM that is causing the issues? That seems highly unlikely, but like I said the problems began...

Allright, well, I'll just quickly break down whats happened and what I have done so far. A couple weeks ago I started experiencing hang-ups and longer than normal load times for apps, etc., and when my computer was left on all night, I was greeted w/ a "Windows Virtual Memory low" message and a...

I was forced to get a new hard drive this week when the old 80gb one I had finally filled-up, causing all kinds of lock-ups and errors in Windows. So I hopped on Newegg and got myself a 250gb WD. This is my first Hard Drive addition install, and I have a few questions. So far, this is what I...