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So, recently my PC's performance has gone down in performance and I haven't the slightest clue why. I will give a list of things that - as a 0% PC expert - think might be relevant in some kind of way to an extremely vague and unidentified issue. I'd rather seek help than just scream "VIRUS!" and wipe my drive of all my important files, it must be something less serious. I hope that this series of strange side effects will give any kind of insight as to where to even START looking for the problem, I am sorry if this thread is too vague.
First, here's some system information:
Windows 7
AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core processor 3.6 GHz
64-bit OS
8GM RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX550 Ti
So here's the non-chronological story of weird events my computer has RECENTLY started doing. "Story" being a joke, I will respectively write this as concisely as possible.
Chapter 1: Is Java 7 the culprit?
So I recently installed Java update 7 and uninstalled version 6 from my computer. I had to install both 32 and 64-bit versions since my system and browser (Google Chrome) required both, Java told me this is an acceptable thing to do. After installing this version anything Java based seemed to run very slowly and crash completely. So I reinstalled version 6 and uninstalled 7 and the games appear to be running fine, but other problems persist. Still not top condition to how things USED to be but better than version 7.
Chapter 2: Google Chrome's new habits.
I used to be able to open and close Chrome windows as much as I pleased. This isn't necessarily a problem but it's new and might mean something. When I close Google Chrome, re-opening takes a very long time. The "open window" highlight in the task bar appears for a few seconds then fades away. This happens every time I try to open for around 3-5 minutes where Chrome will report that I did not close it properly and ask to restore my last session.
Chapter 4: Skype Disk I/O error.
This problem has not happened around 2/3 days before this is posted but Skype used to fail to log in. I would get this error message when trying to log in and sometimes it would log me out mid-session:
http://community.skype.com/skypec/attachments/skypec/Wi...
Chapter 5: Photoshop "Disk scratch" error
I get an error message when editing text on Adobe Photoshop that reads:
http://s595.photobucket.com/user/RyanTaylorrz/media/PSE...
I used Photoshop today and it ran fine without crashes before the first time that error message came up, now using the program is incredibly unstable and freezes when changes are made a lot.
Chapter 6: Windows Explorer is not responding
Almost any task concerning windows explorer will result in a momentary freeze and a "Not Responding" message.
Things I have already done:
- Scanned for viruses using both AVG and Windows Defender. Nothing found.
- Disk check for errors, took ages, might I add.
- Defragmented my disk, it was 0% fragmented anyway on both my C: and backup D: drive.
- Installed a version of Java I know worked before errors appeared.
- Performed a disk clean-up multiple times.
I shall be watching this thread closely so feel free to ask questions. Thankyou!
So, recently my PC's performance has gone down in performance and I haven't the slightest clue why. I will give a list of things that - as a 0% PC expert - think might be relevant in some kind of way to an extremely vague and unidentified issue. I'd rather seek help than just scream "VIRUS!" and wipe my drive of all my important files, it must be something less serious. I hope that this series of strange side effects will give any kind of insight as to where to even START looking for the problem, I am sorry if this thread is too vague.
First, here's some system information:
Windows 7
AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core processor 3.6 GHz
64-bit OS
8GM RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX550 Ti
So here's the non-chronological story of weird events my computer has RECENTLY started doing. "Story" being a joke, I will respectively write this as concisely as possible.
Chapter 1: Is Java 7 the culprit?
So I recently installed Java update 7 and uninstalled version 6 from my computer. I had to install both 32 and 64-bit versions since my system and browser (Google Chrome) required both, Java told me this is an acceptable thing to do. After installing this version anything Java based seemed to run very slowly and crash completely. So I reinstalled version 6 and uninstalled 7 and the games appear to be running fine, but other problems persist. Still not top condition to how things USED to be but better than version 7.
Chapter 2: Google Chrome's new habits.
I used to be able to open and close Chrome windows as much as I pleased. This isn't necessarily a problem but it's new and might mean something. When I close Google Chrome, re-opening takes a very long time. The "open window" highlight in the task bar appears for a few seconds then fades away. This happens every time I try to open for around 3-5 minutes where Chrome will report that I did not close it properly and ask to restore my last session.
Chapter 4: Skype Disk I/O error.
This problem has not happened around 2/3 days before this is posted but Skype used to fail to log in. I would get this error message when trying to log in and sometimes it would log me out mid-session:
http://community.skype.com/skypec/attachments/skypec/Wi...
Chapter 5: Photoshop "Disk scratch" error
I get an error message when editing text on Adobe Photoshop that reads:
http://s595.photobucket.com/user/RyanTaylorrz/media/PSE...
I used Photoshop today and it ran fine without crashes before the first time that error message came up, now using the program is incredibly unstable and freezes when changes are made a lot.
Chapter 6: Windows Explorer is not responding
Almost any task concerning windows explorer will result in a momentary freeze and a "Not Responding" message.
Things I have already done:
- Scanned for viruses using both AVG and Windows Defender. Nothing found.
- Disk check for errors, took ages, might I add.
- Defragmented my disk, it was 0% fragmented anyway on both my C: and backup D: drive.
- Installed a version of Java I know worked before errors appeared.
- Performed a disk clean-up multiple times.
I shall be watching this thread closely so feel free to ask questions. Thankyou!
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