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So, yesterday Firefox kept slowing down to a crawl and then crashing- sooner each time.
Deciding it was a memory issue from the computer having been running for over a week straight, I shut it down cold last night in hopes that, when I rebooted in the morning, the issue would clear.
This morning a power flicker woke me up (yay rain!). I booted up the desktop machine... and three-quarters of my startup stuff sent up errors.
* Explorer crash: "Such-and-so process error at such-and-so memory location: the memory could not be written."
* (crappy bargain brand antivirus that cost too damn much for what I got): pretty much the same.
* AIM: tried and failed to access Internet Explorer, a fault that's been regular since the virus that got me to grab the above antivirus did a number on registries, then crashed and blocked monitor until I killed it in Task Manager
* Firefox: crashes immediately, without even opening a window, and- unlike most Firefox crashes- WON'T TELL ME WHY IT CRASHED.
I can still get to email, and I can open Windows Explorer and grab files, so that's what I've just done- grab all the essential WLP business files and transfer them to the laptop I'm posting this from now. I've uninstalled the antivirus program and removed AIM from my startup list, so in a bit I'll see if that does the trick. If not...
... well, this computer is five years old and showing its age quite a bit. I may just replace it.
(With what money? I have two, maybe three conventions left this year, none of them very good ones, property tax and car insurance are about to come due, and Christmas... argh.)
EDIT: UPDATE- The fixes I've tried don't help. The tips I've found online boil down to: (1) uninstall whatever you installed just before the glitch happened (but I didn't install anything); or (2) reinstall whatever's causing the glitch (can't, because I've lost the Windows install disk for this machine and the machine's too old to run the newest version of Firefox without thrash).
The machine's five years old, has a 3 gHz processor, half a gig of RAM (if it works), and a 70 Gb hard drive. The laptop I'm typing this on now, bought last year off the clearance shelf, outperforms it on every parameter. Unfortunately, switching machines will mean buying a new version of Photoshop... ARGH, the expense...
Deciding it was a memory issue from the computer having been running for over a week straight, I shut it down cold last night in hopes that, when I rebooted in the morning, the issue would clear.
This morning a power flicker woke me up (yay rain!). I booted up the desktop machine... and three-quarters of my startup stuff sent up errors.
* Explorer crash: "Such-and-so process error at such-and-so memory location: the memory could not be written."
* (crappy bargain brand antivirus that cost too damn much for what I got): pretty much the same.
* AIM: tried and failed to access Internet Explorer, a fault that's been regular since the virus that got me to grab the above antivirus did a number on registries, then crashed and blocked monitor until I killed it in Task Manager
* Firefox: crashes immediately, without even opening a window, and- unlike most Firefox crashes- WON'T TELL ME WHY IT CRASHED.
I can still get to email, and I can open Windows Explorer and grab files, so that's what I've just done- grab all the essential WLP business files and transfer them to the laptop I'm posting this from now. I've uninstalled the antivirus program and removed AIM from my startup list, so in a bit I'll see if that does the trick. If not...
... well, this computer is five years old and showing its age quite a bit. I may just replace it.
(With what money? I have two, maybe three conventions left this year, none of them very good ones, property tax and car insurance are about to come due, and Christmas... argh.)
EDIT: UPDATE- The fixes I've tried don't help. The tips I've found online boil down to: (1) uninstall whatever you installed just before the glitch happened (but I didn't install anything); or (2) reinstall whatever's causing the glitch (can't, because I've lost the Windows install disk for this machine and the machine's too old to run the newest version of Firefox without thrash).
The machine's five years old, has a 3 gHz processor, half a gig of RAM (if it works), and a 70 Gb hard drive. The laptop I'm typing this on now, bought last year off the clearance shelf, outperforms it on every parameter. Unfortunately, switching machines will mean buying a new version of Photoshop... ARGH, the expense...
