Musky, Mentor Me! PC Start Up is slow slow SLOW!

[GrumpysWife]

Thanks:)-D

[rocket]

Thanks for your help, my digital guru friend.

[Musky]

Thanks for your help' date=' my digital guru friend. [/quote'] You're welcome. I will be awaiting further questions!

[retroHelen]

The old PC is not connected to the Internet now, we re-used the 56k modem in a later model.It hadn't enough memory to cope with much more than text emails and Dad's an absolute novice who is not bothered about that yet. If he did get into that, we would get him a laptop. However, occasionally Dad has tried to install some software and found that it tries to connect to the Internet to register and because it cannot, all kinds of error messages come up and stopped the installation, so he had to uninstall the software. Don't know if that would be relavent to any RAM losses?

I've never been into a PC, so I looked on Youtube to see what RAM Sticks look like and how to clean the PC out with dry air and clean rubbers and non-metal feruled squirrel-hair brushes and keeping grounded so you don't put static in there. I think I get the hang of it, so we will have a go at getting the dust out and carefully stroking the RAM contacts with the clean rubber and hopefully not make any expensive mistakes.

Thank you:flowers:

[Musky]

I would just take it outside and blow it out with compressed air. An air compressor works good but if you don't have that, you can purchase spray cans of air in most stores that sell computer parts.

[Greenfield]

Thanks for your help, my digital guru friend.

You're welcome. I will be awaiting further questions!

You make me

Okay, I have one. Helen copied this from her computer:

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module COMCTL32.DLL at 0137:bfbblf2b

EAX=00000000 CS=137 EIP=bfbb2084

EBX=00001014 SS=0134 ESP=008afb2c EBP=008afb34

ECX=00000000 DS=013f ESI=00144a84f EFLGS=0001046

EDX=00000060 ES=013f EDI=000000003 GS=0000

Bytes at:

8e d6 56 00 00 85 c0 a9

56 68 cd Sa 2b dl 03 ca

Stack dump:

00000364 0044a8f4 008afc9c bfb9136c 0044a8f4

00000000 00000000 00448b8 004402a4 00440288

00000000 00000000 0000006 bfb90c21 00000364

00000000

My question: Why don't they make computers to write that so we can actually understand that sort of message or know what to do?

[Musky]

My question: Why don't they make computers to write that so we can actually understand that sort of message or know what to do?

Because Microsoft in all of it's arrogance doesn't feel you are qualified to work on your own computer. They also do not release their base code (kernel) to anybody in fear of someone making a copy of something they most likely stole in the first place!

So if it was in plain English, we might be able to figure out how it all works together, and they can't have that.

The plan was for you to submit this error code to them and they would send you the solution. But that NEVER worked. Since most of their customer service "reps" are in India, good luck getting a helpful answer from them. We techs have had to learn as much as we could from experience and we share that among ourselves.

[Greenfield]

My question: Why don't they make computers to write that so we can actually understand that sort of message or know what to do?

Because Microsoft in all of it's arrogance doesn't feel you are qualified to work on your own computer. They also do not release their base code (kernel) to anybody in fear of someone making a copy of something they most likely stole in the first place!

So if it was in plain English, we might be able to figure out how it all works together, and they can't have that.

The plan was for you to submit this error code to them and they would send you the solution. But that NEVER worked. Since most of their customer service "reps" are in India, good luck getting a helpful answer from them. We techs have had to learn as much as we could from experience and we share that among ourselves.

Greenfield caused an invalid comment fault in module MUSKY.DLL at 0137:blablabla2b

EAX=00000000 CS=137 EIP=bfbb2084

EBX=00001014 SS=0134 ESP=008afb2c EBP=008afb34

ECX=00000000 DS=013f ESI=00144a84f EFLGS=0001046

EDX=00000060 ES=013f EDI=000000003 GS=0000

Bytes at:

8e d6 56 00 00 85 c0 a9

56 68 cd Sa 2b dl 03 ca

Stack dump:

00000364 0044a8f4 008afc9c bfb9136c 0044a8f4

00000000 00000000 00448b8 004402a4 00440288

00000000 00000000 0000006 bfb90c21 00000364

00000000

Error code: ID - 10 - T

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[Musky]

[GrumpysWife]

Funny, Musky.