1. I've found my laptop has slowed down a lot. It's start up is very slow and I haven't played Cod4 for ages which had run smoothly, I loaded it yday with the same settings and everything and it was running slower, i had to lower the graphics. My hardrive is 250GB and has 55GB free.

2. Every time I turn it on, after a few minutes (usually when I open windows media player) windows media player encoder stops working. It doesn't do anything to the computer or media player, but i still don't like it.

3. The recycling bin has disappeared from my desktop, so I somehow made a shortcut to it on my desktop, but how do I get the original recycle bin back?

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How long since you formatted it?

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do you mean defragment?

yesterday and usually every 2 weeks

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Quote: from tock at 8:11 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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How long since you formatted it?

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do you mean defragment?

yesterday and usually every 2 weeks

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Take it to a repair store and ask for it to be formatted, it'll probably cost like £25

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Amber says:
why don't you do something nice like lan
or a picnic
or ride a horse into the sunset

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go to start run msconfig and tweak startup tab

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i already have done and only have microsoft stuff at startup and haven't seen an improvement

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Quote: from Dedalus at 8:13 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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Quote: from tock at 8:11 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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How long since you formatted it?

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 do you mean defragment?  

 yesterday and usually every 2 weeks

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No, defragment is a useless waste of time, especially if you do it 'every two weeks.' How long have you had it? Sounds to me like your HD is full of shit and your PC is running a twatload of ghost processes cuz of malware

Take it to a repair store and ask for it to be formatted, it'll probably cost like £25

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I can't wipe the HD because i need it for my coursework. I can't risk forgetting about something important.

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Quote: from tock at 8:15 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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Quote: from Dedalus at 8:13 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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Quote: from tock at 8:11 am on Oct. 31, 2009

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How long since you formatted it?

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  do you mean defragment?

  yesterday and usually every 2 weeks

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No, defragment is a useless waste of time, especially if you do it 'every two weeks.' How long have you had it? Sounds to me like your HD is full of shit and your PC is running a twatload of ghost processes cuz of malware  

 Take it to a repair store and ask for it to be formatted, it'll probably cost like £25

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I can't wipe the HD because i need it for my coursework. I can't risk forgetting about something important.

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Also, @Christ, editting startup isn't going to help especially not since the guy knows nothing about PCs, he will probably turn off services or something.

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Amber says:
why don't you do something nice like lan
or a picnic
or ride a horse into the sunset