Damn this infernal machine!

[tye stik]

Yeah, so I bought a Dell Dimension 3000 a couple months ago, and for awhile I was happy 'cause it was working great and I was learning all this stuff to tweak performance and stuff (like get rid of shitty ass Norton), anyways now my computer will freeze up evry once and awhile even when I just open up the start menu... it dosen't happen often but its still annoying...
Generally though my computer suffers from some mega slowdown now and it didn't before, I've scanned the computer an infitecimal amount of times with various anti-spy/virus software, so um. yeah, wtf is up with it? any suggestions?
Oh yeah, for those of you that use the Dev-C++ compiler, my comment line used to turn a light blue for easy spotting, now it dosen't, I've reinstalled it and everything ( one of these >> //This is the bool statement -- or /*blah blah*/)
I really liked being able to see my script so beautifully colour coded, but I can live without if you don't know whats up.
Oh, and for those of you who program in C++ you might wanna use this excellent compiler *Bloodshed's Compiler*

Oh yeah, one more thing, type this into your (DOS) command prompt: (*-
Its a weird anomoly that even my PC support teacher hasn't seen

 

[smcd]

DevCpp is an IDE, it uses the MinGW port of gcc/g++ (or alternately cygwin). Without these, DevCpp would just be a colorized notepad

 

[Orkin]

Oh yeah, one more thing, type this into your (DOS) command prompt: (*-
Its a weird anomoly that even my PC support teacher hasn't seen

The parenthesis lets you run more than one command at once. Say you had three long operations you wanted to run (like a backup or something), but you didn't want to have to sit in front of the computer and wait for one to complete before entering the next command. You could just do something like this:

C:\> (
More? backup c:\documents f:
More? backup c:\downloads f:
More? exit
More? )

That would run both backup commands, and then exit the command prompt.

 

[tye stik]

Aww, I see, thanks for the info brudah

I fixed the colours, it was just that my color settings on my computer interfered... as for Dev-C++ being only a "colorized notepad", lol... well, does a colorized notepad have a debugger? Or an easy setup? I dunno, what compilers do you suggest (and don't say Visual C++, 'cause its crap, lol). I'm open minded, I wanna learn as much as I can about computers before they get too complicated (they're already developing 'quantum processors'... whew).

But yeah, I don't like not knowing what the hells going on when I use a device, I feel like I'd be too dependent on scientists and people like that, and I don't want to just trust what they say... I gotta understand it so in the future I wont be a naive person and get somehow taken advantage of (I've have a strange feeling that attitude is gonna be important one day... maybe the world will be takin over by robots and I'll be in some key situation and be like "damn, its a good thing I know Q-Basic or something, so I can save the world and be the last man so I'll have to repopulate the world... only with hot chicks though, lol")

 

[DarthDazDC]

use Linux.

 

[rcgamer]

if you have only 256 MB of ram then get more. also if thats not it check to see what your temperatures are.

 

[smcd]

When I use gcc or g++ and don't do it via a commandline interface, I use MinGW Studio or Visual MinGW. I also have Visual C++ (several versions) and have few complaints about it The debugging aspect of DevCpp is gdb I believe, also belonging to MinGW or cygwin's porting of GCC stuff

 

[flow``]

you uninstalled norton? eh... av programs (esp. norton) arent really un-installable. you've got to format to completely get rid of them without if f'n everything up

update bios+firmware/format and re-install/update your stuff .. never fails

 

[LazerTag]

you uninstalled norton? eh... av programs (esp. norton) arent really un-installable. you've got to format to completely get rid of them without if f'n everything up

update bios+firmware/format and re-install/update your stuff .. never fails

I have personally un-installed Norton Internet Securities, Norton Anti Virus, Norton Firewall, AVG, TrendMicro, and McAfee from many different workstations. Not once due to the removal of those programs would I have been better off formatting. And only one case where I did decide to format because the system was messed up and I still don't believe it to be caused by that software, all user error.

I'm not saying I'm %100 right here, you just never know, but in my 12+ years of support service in the IT field, I've never heard of such a thing. Not sure where you heard or read that, but please post some links if you have them.

 

[Jakob]

I have personally un-installed Norton Internet Securities, Norton Anti Virus, Norton Firewall, AVG, TrendMicro, and McAfee from many different workstations. Not once due to the removal of those programs would I have been better off formatting. And only one case where I did decide to format because the system was messed up and I still don't believe it to be caused by that software, all user error.

I'm not saying I'm %100 right here, you just never know, but in my 12+ years of support service in the IT field, I've never heard of such a thing. Not sure where you heard or read that, but please post some links if you have them.

it's ok, flow likes talking out of his ass, it's kind of his "thing".

 

[LazerTag]

it's ok, flow likes talking out of his ass, it's kind of his "thing".

Well I'm not trying to say anything like that, It's just not in my nature. I would just like to know where this information came from as Flow makes it sound like everyone has this issue, which again I have never experienced once.

 

[Clements]

There are detailed uninstall instructions with Norton's nowadays to clear out all the stuff.