XP Squirrely Pro

February 06th, 2012 - 07:05 pm ET by BeeJ | Report spam
I have two laptops with XP Pro.
All service packs and security updates and mfr's drivers installed.
4G RAM.

Original install of all apps ran for years then started acting up.

Both have a recent format / reinstall.
Both are again squirrely.
Running Avast and other MS malicious etc with firewall on.
Run CCleaner on them but that did not help.

What's squirreley you ask?
Internet explorer does strange things. complains all the time.
Other browsers, chrome, safari, firefox work better on the same sites.
What version IE, well 6 with the reinstall and up to now 8 and all IE
act squirrley.
Other apps also have strange behaviours that are intermittent.
I.e. I cannot reproduce them. consistently.

So what can I run to figure out what is going on?
Or should I just recycle them and start over.



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#1 David H. Lipman
February 06th, 2012 - 07:22 pm ET | Report spam
From: "BeeJ"

| I have two laptops with XP Pro.
| All service packs and security updates and mfr's drivers installed.
| 4G RAM.
|
| Original install of all apps ran for years then started acting up.
|
| Both have a recent format / reinstall.
| Both are again squirrely.
| Running Avast and other MS malicious etc with firewall on.
| Run CCleaner on them but that did not help.
|
| What's squirreley you ask?
| Internet explorer does strange things. complains all the time.
| Other browsers, chrome, safari, firefox work better on the same sites.
| What version IE, well 6 with the reinstall and up to now 8 and all IE
| act squirrley.
| Other apps also have strange behaviours that are intermittent.
| I.e. I cannot reproduce them. consistently.
|
| So what can I run to figure out what is going on?
| Or should I just recycle them and start over.
|

Frankly, you wrote a lot with no facts that can help. Sorry.


Dave
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