PC Problems

Posted by biggoron on March 10, 2007, 12:17 p.m.

There are a number of things going awry with my PC lately…

1) A persistent virus has been repeatedly attacking my PC. It's called infostealer.bancos. Every time it appears, Norton tells me about it, tells me it's been deleted, but it keeps appearing over and over again, nonetheless. It's starting to get pretty annoying, especially if I'm playing a game when Norton tells me about it.

2) explorer.exe seems to go periodically crazy, by taking up ~100% cpu and twice the RAM it normally should. It doesn't happen for my brother but it's happened to me three times today. It's never happened before and I don't know what's causing it. I think it may be WindowBlinds, although i've never had this problem with it before. I'm changing my skin to the one my brother uses to see if it has any effect.

3) It's not exactly a PC problem, but it's in that general area. The postal code edit box in WoW's registration form isn't long enough to accommodate my entire post code. It seems I may have to register some other way, perhaps by phone, which is a little annoying.

I have two science GCSE's on Monday, and I'm not feeling very confident about it. I'll have to cram in some revision tonight and tomorrow night. I also have a fuck load of homework to complete by next week. Weekends just aren't long enough.

My work experience starts in a few weeks. I'm not sure exactly where I'll be going or even where I want to go. I'm thinking that I could maybe work in a shop. One that doesn't have many customers, like a computer shop or something. That would be handy considering there's one in the town centre, which is pretty much on my doorstep.

I got an assembler today, and I'm hoping to start learning assembly soon. I can't seem to find any good tutorials. If anyone has a good x86 assembly tutorial, please point me to it.

I'm thinking of creating a 3D modeller, mostly just as something to work on, not necessarily for it to be better than any others.

If anyone has any solutions to any of my PC problems or a tutorial for x86 assembly, please tell me.

Peace, y'all.

Comments

flashback 17 years, 1 month ago

Don't get mad, get linux.

biggoron 17 years, 1 month ago

I tried Linux. It was annoying. I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Puppy. With Ubuntu and Kubuntu I can't even get the resolution higher than 800*600.

I think the reason explorer.exe was taking up so much CPU was because I exited QuickTime. When I restarted this time I didn't turn off QuickTime and everything is fine. Windows is starting to piss me off more and more.

biggoron 17 years, 1 month ago

It appears I spoke to soon. Explorer.exe is continuing to consume my processor. If someone can suggest a Linux distro that is easy to use and free then I'll use it.

Kaz 17 years, 1 month ago

Get a new computer.

biggoron 17 years, 1 month ago

After 6 months? There's nothing wrong with my computer.

Kaz 17 years, 1 month ago

Quote:
PC Problems

biggoron 17 years, 1 month ago

I meant there's nothing wrong with its hardware.

flashback 17 years, 1 month ago

http://mepis.org

Great hardware detection, and the latest release candidate (look in the testing directory on the mirrors) has built-in 3D drivers and beryl.

If you have ANY issues with it, just ask at Mepislovers And we'll swarm all over your post trying to fix your problem.

biggoron 17 years, 1 month ago

I've started downloading. i386 will work on my AMD64 Athlon Processor, right?

flashback 17 years, 1 month ago

yeah, but you could have just gotten the 6.5 Release Candidate 1 64-bit version.