I Hate Computers
@crossbones27 (49432)
Mojave, California
April 1, 2017 8:12pm CST
After vowing never to hard boot my computer again, Guess what I had to do today. That is right, had to hard boot it because it apparently froze when I went to get coffee and morning breakfast.
I usually just go get the stuff and come back, but this time I ended up talking with my sister for to long. Came back to a black screen, but figured the PC just went to sleep. Go to hit the power button to bring out of hibernate mode and nothing happens.
When I close the lid the computer is suppose to shut down after 10 minutes, as I put it on that setting for the specific reason if the PC freezes. That or gets to sluggish. I also quit downloading things unless I absolutely need them. I only have an adblock app and will no longer use any others because they can freeze or make your PC sluggish. After an hour, PC still stuck and doing nothing.
Thing froze up and the PC is not even a month old. I hate PC's Note to self never leave Facebook on if you are going to be away for more than 10 minutes. That is the only thing that could of froze it other than updates. The problem is the PC said it was not updating at the time and good because that is a good way to ruin a computer. Doing a hard boot during an update.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62476)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
2 Apr 17
What kind of computer do you have? This is why I adore my tablet, yeah it's had a couple issues but nothing major and nothing compared to the sluggish and freezing that the desktop has.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
ASUS with 8 GB of ram and 1 TB of hard space. The damn thing should not be freezing because it is literally 4 times better than my last PC and also brand new with minimal programs on it. I hope it did not get screwed up in delivery or just got a bad apple.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62476)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
2 Apr 17
@crossbones27 Did you get a warranty or anything on it? Where di dyou order it from? Asus is a good brand I have had them in the past they usually don't have too many issues.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
@thislittlepennyearns It usually is, It came with a year warranty but not sure how all that works and these freaking corporations be robbing people left and right. They always offer the extended warranty and never get them because I know they just want more money. Hopefully they are not making them to where they break down after a year because you did not buy the extended warranty. That is how some of these companies do these days. It could just be a freak thing to and like I said something to do with Facebook because there is so much info on that site.
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@Courtlynn (67085)
• United States
2 Apr 17
Maybe you have a virus. Ive left Facebook open for like an hour before and nothing happened.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
No, did that check once I got back on because thinking it could be that also. The computer is not slow being our ISP works right. Much faster than my old one. Maybe it was my ISP selling my browsing history because congress just did pass that. 
I do not think Trump has signed it into law yet, so doubt it was that.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
3 Apr 17
There are a few things you can do. First, I'd recommend scanning for viruses and malware. I'm not sure what you use, but I typically recommend Avast Antivirus and Malwarebytes. Both are free and very effective.
Make sure to remove any unnecessary programs. If you'd like, you can take a screenshot of your list of installed programs and I can tell you if any are junk. Remove anything that is a toolbar. Make sure your adobe flash is up to date. Avast antivirus actually helps with this as it monitors flash, air, java, etc. for updates. Use firefox or chrome for web browsing. Using IE is just asking for trouble.
Lastly, if you know how to manage your startup programs, you should disable unnecessary startup programs. Your computer doesn't need to have adobe, java, itunes, etc. activating at startup. Those just suck up resources and slow down your machine.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
4 Apr 17
@crossbones27 Avira is a solid antivirus, rated a little higher than Avast, so your brother gave you good advice. I'd still run Malwarebytes, even if you remove it after doing a scan to avoid it being in the background.
The only other thing I could suggest is checking temperatures. See if you can get a program that monitors the temperature of your CPU. If that gets too hot, your whole PC will slow down as it tries to cool off. There could also be hard drive issues so you could try running check disk. Do you know if the computer has a standard hard drive, or a solid state drive (SSD)?
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
4 Apr 17
@Taskr36 Cool, thanks for the additional info.. The great thing is about this PC not even sure where the fan is. I believe some where in the bottom but never gets hot. They designed it different hear the fan in left corner still but air seems to come out every where in tiny spots. I actually have it on coasters because I hear that helps. Anywhere I touch the laptop. No warm spots and no spot is warmer than another not by hand anyway. First computer I have seen significant changes in a while.
@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
4 Apr 17
That is the thing, the only thing I have downloaded is Avira Anti Virus and CCcleaner. I went with what my brother suggested and not Avast. He said Avast is good, but prefers Avira.
I also was going to do Malware bytes, but they say the new version is not as good as the old version because it now constantly runs in the background, to where before it was only when you started the program. I was either going to wait and for my computer to become sluggish or them to change back to the original way in that it does not constantly run in the background.
I do have Firefox installed also, not chrome, because my brother was telling the huge amount of resources chrome takes up. I do use Microsoft Edge also, only because you can tell Microsoft and ASUS seem to have went to great lengths in make sure people more or less have to use what the system came with.
Avira says no problems as far as malware or viruses. The startup is only what the computer came with besides what I just mentioned. It takes 45 seconds to start up most times.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
Yeah, things are to expensive also, and can screw them up fairly easy if you think about it. Not like a TV.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
4 Apr 17
See, people be thinking I be smoking something. lol Facebook uses a lot of resources.
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@LadyDuck (471497)
• Switzerland
4 Apr 17
@crossbones27 Yes, FB is hard on our computers.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
2 Apr 17
It's like a love/hate thing. Frustrating, but we need them.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
Indeed, definitely more of a necessity than a xbox. lol
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
Yeah, working fine now, but scary when you just paid more than you can afford.
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
2 Apr 17
I am lucky that I do not have this problem.I only read but do not work anywhere except mylot. This starts only early in the morning and there will be no one jarring me on my work.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Apr 17
Yeah and that is why it is so frustrating to me. It is how I kind of make a living. Getting by that is. Most cannot make a full time living off the internet. I simply do not think they allow it or want it no matter how many say you can. It is always the ones that can play the corporate game. Those of us that do not care for or tolerate the corporate game will always struggle with this kind of living.
