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Not sure if they can be answered.
Question #1
Maybe several years ago on here I doubt that person is still on here at JUB. Someone posted a thread about how they wanted to look up their serial code for their program and even look at their Windows updates to see if they were missing any. Someone posted up a link of a program can't really remember what it was called might need to go through some old CD's to see if I had the program listed.
What the program did was open up and gather all the information on your computer, then listed all the programs and their serial numbers. Then it listed all sorts of Windows updates that were installed, showed you the Windows operating system and even had the serial code for that as well. Wasn't sure what other things it listed but it looked very useful and was wondering if anyone knew what that program could be.
Question #2
I can't remember when I did a factory restore on my computer and sadly I'm running Vista still and so I've backed up all my personal stuff on a 1TB external hard drive including my music on my iTunes. My problem is when I start my computer it will go to the desktop, then the desktop will just freeze first the taskbar freezes and when I try to click the icons on the deskop they freeze too. Sometimes it will stay frozen to about 2 to 4 minutes long before my other programs start opening up like my virus program and my widgets.
I've done just about everything. I unchecked the start up processes at the beginning and it still does it. When I check them back the weird thing is I only have about 8 processes in my Startup list that are opening. I figured it might be some Services but I've checked Hide all Microsoft services and then just unchecked things I really didn't need like my Amazon Download Agent, Google Update Service (I hardly use Chrome), Steam and Yahoo Updater.
I've done virus scans and spyware scans with Malwarebytes, Spybot and AVAST, they've all come up with nothing. I sort of hate using Window's Defrag because it can take HOURS and HOURS to do.
I downloaded a program called MyDefrag which has some great reviews. It seems to do the job with speeding up my computer, just need to do it every week it seems and I've even done the really heavy duty defrags like monthly scans and it helps but still that start up freezes every time. I'm not sure what might be running in the background or what's causing it to freeze up for 4 minutes during start up.
Does anyone know what or how to fix this? Has anyone ran across such a problem before? I've done online searches but most of the time they talk about Superfetch service being turned off and deleting the Prefetch folder in WINDOWS folder. I've done more research on this service some people say to NEVER turn the service off because it makes it boot up even more slower than before. I've even deleted the stuff in the Prefetch folder and still no change in the desktop freezing at startup.
What's going on? Do I need to get a new computer even though I can't really afford it, do I reinstalled Vista? My computer is about 5 years old, that seems to be the amount of years before a computer starts to slow down hardware wise and even in operating system.
I really didn't want to go through having to reinstall since I have all these programs and such with serial codes. And I sort of want to keep everything organized and it giving me a list of all the programs installed and serial numbers put into a file or JPG or some other file format.
Thanks to anyone whose read all this text and hopefully anyone who can be of any help to me. It's a pain in the ass having to start my computer.
Question #1
Maybe several years ago on here I doubt that person is still on here at JUB. Someone posted a thread about how they wanted to look up their serial code for their program and even look at their Windows updates to see if they were missing any. Someone posted up a link of a program can't really remember what it was called might need to go through some old CD's to see if I had the program listed.
What the program did was open up and gather all the information on your computer, then listed all the programs and their serial numbers. Then it listed all sorts of Windows updates that were installed, showed you the Windows operating system and even had the serial code for that as well. Wasn't sure what other things it listed but it looked very useful and was wondering if anyone knew what that program could be.
Question #2
I can't remember when I did a factory restore on my computer and sadly I'm running Vista still and so I've backed up all my personal stuff on a 1TB external hard drive including my music on my iTunes. My problem is when I start my computer it will go to the desktop, then the desktop will just freeze first the taskbar freezes and when I try to click the icons on the deskop they freeze too. Sometimes it will stay frozen to about 2 to 4 minutes long before my other programs start opening up like my virus program and my widgets.
I've done just about everything. I unchecked the start up processes at the beginning and it still does it. When I check them back the weird thing is I only have about 8 processes in my Startup list that are opening. I figured it might be some Services but I've checked Hide all Microsoft services and then just unchecked things I really didn't need like my Amazon Download Agent, Google Update Service (I hardly use Chrome), Steam and Yahoo Updater.
I've done virus scans and spyware scans with Malwarebytes, Spybot and AVAST, they've all come up with nothing. I sort of hate using Window's Defrag because it can take HOURS and HOURS to do.
I downloaded a program called MyDefrag which has some great reviews. It seems to do the job with speeding up my computer, just need to do it every week it seems and I've even done the really heavy duty defrags like monthly scans and it helps but still that start up freezes every time. I'm not sure what might be running in the background or what's causing it to freeze up for 4 minutes during start up.
Does anyone know what or how to fix this? Has anyone ran across such a problem before? I've done online searches but most of the time they talk about Superfetch service being turned off and deleting the Prefetch folder in WINDOWS folder. I've done more research on this service some people say to NEVER turn the service off because it makes it boot up even more slower than before. I've even deleted the stuff in the Prefetch folder and still no change in the desktop freezing at startup.
What's going on? Do I need to get a new computer even though I can't really afford it, do I reinstalled Vista? My computer is about 5 years old, that seems to be the amount of years before a computer starts to slow down hardware wise and even in operating system.
I really didn't want to go through having to reinstall since I have all these programs and such with serial codes. And I sort of want to keep everything organized and it giving me a list of all the programs installed and serial numbers put into a file or JPG or some other file format.
Thanks to anyone whose read all this text and hopefully anyone who can be of any help to me. It's a pain in the ass having to start my computer.
