PC Problems Q&A thread

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Griffin said:

I need some PC help, over the past year my computer has started to become slower, but over the past 3+ months is starting to get slower at a fast rate. One year ago when i ran a Virus scan Norton read 340k files, now it reads 460k files. I have deleted an extensive amount of programs, games and various other files.

I'm not running many things in the background from what i can see, Norton, Firefox, and MSN then whatever else goes on in the background. I have tried many of those free up ram, and speed up PC programs and they don't really seem to do anything.

I have run those defrag and error checking things on the C drive about once a month. I'm not very good with computers and don't really know what i should do.

And sometimes my computer fails to connect to the internet, i'm on a wireless network, and it tells me windows cannot fix the problem "Clearing the DNS cache" then it tells me to contact the person who manages my network, i'm not sure what this means.

I'm going offline now, so thanks if you can offer any suggestions.

 

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