Hi,
I am using an old Packard Bell PC (2000) wired to Telewest Broadband, running ME Windows. (Also have Linksys router attached for wireless laptop)
I have been having problems with persistant crashes etc, and on advice from another site, downloaded the following, Ccleaner, Counterspy, I already have AVG, Sygate firewall & spybot running.
Using Counterspy, it apparently managed to find 200+ file problems which it has corrected.
All was OK for one day, and then yesterday, when I try & click on any of my icons, the computer freezes, & when I press CTRL, ALT & Del, to re-boot, windows wouldn't load. After many, many switch offs/on again, have finally managed to get my icons back, but the only one that appears to work is Mozilla Firefox. I can't even access 'my computer' or 'control panel'
When it freezes, I soft-boot & get a message stating that SMC & EXPLORER are not responding.
I also keep losing all the small icons that normally sit along the bottom of the screen.
Does anyone have any ideas? Also, when I could access the control panel, I went into add/remove programs, and tried to remove 'web rebate', but it won't let me, it says it will remove after a few mins, but nothing happens & it's still there?
I am using an old Packard Bell PC (2000) wired to Telewest Broadband, running ME Windows. (Also have Linksys router attached for wireless laptop)
I have been having problems with persistant crashes etc, and on advice from another site, downloaded the following, Ccleaner, Counterspy, I already have AVG, Sygate firewall & spybot running.
Using Counterspy, it apparently managed to find 200+ file problems which it has corrected.
All was OK for one day, and then yesterday, when I try & click on any of my icons, the computer freezes, & when I press CTRL, ALT & Del, to re-boot, windows wouldn't load. After many, many switch offs/on again, have finally managed to get my icons back, but the only one that appears to work is Mozilla Firefox. I can't even access 'my computer' or 'control panel'
When it freezes, I soft-boot & get a message stating that SMC & EXPLORER are not responding.
I also keep losing all the small icons that normally sit along the bottom of the screen.
Does anyone have any ideas? Also, when I could access the control panel, I went into add/remove programs, and tried to remove 'web rebate', but it won't let me, it says it will remove after a few mins, but nothing happens & it's still there?