i realy think than my windows ME was hacked

I need some help. in the last month i saw that my computer was working very slowly.......... but I don't put atention to IT because I call a computer asistent to divide the unit A of the computer in two phases one of it to the windows ME and the other to windows 95......................... so the computer started to working very slowly but only on the windows ME............. and i need your help because if mi computer still working slowly there is a moment when my computer don't work more.................... please back it to me. i'll reali thank

best wishes
jeralcker

Post the computer's specs... I think the mystery will be solved...;)

there can be many reasons for the system to work slow...try defragging it....i would recommend Norton Systems Works for defragging also u will be able to take care of some other issues with you system like registry corruption etc...........and pls do post the specs and other information...so that the commuinty can access what exactly can be wrong with the box.

If you really think it's hacked, then you'll also want to scan for stuff like trojans. Tauscan has a great scanner, but it's only free for 30 days. Still, 30 days is plenty of time to find and remove any trojans you may have. You can find it here http://www.agnitum.com/download/tauscan.html.

*edit*
I just realized that the maker of Tauscan (the actual scanner) is Agnitum. I made it sound like Tauscan was the company. :rolleyes: Agnitum also has a great firewall (Outpost).

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Originally posted here by jaguar291
Post the computer's specs... I think the mystery will be solved...;)

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Specs? its Windows 95 and ME...lol I thought a slow down was normal for those two OSs.



There is a patch for your computer that will make it faster, more stable and more fun. You can download it at :

http://www.suse.com

Enjoy :)

Heh, "patch". It's true though, suse

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Unfortunately, I haven't been able to really dive into *nix stuff yet because I want a seperate hard drive first. I can play with it on other peep's computers but not on my own yet :( . Not to mention that I have to figure out how to make it all *work*. Btw, why do you have two versions of windows on your computer? I guess there's some point to it, but I don't understand.....

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Originally posted here by keezel
Heh, "patch". It's true though, suse Unfortunately, I haven't been able to really dive into *nix stuff yet because I want a seperate hard drive first. I can play with it on other peep's computers but not on my own yet :( . Not to mention that I have to figure out how to make it all *work*. Btw, why do you have two versions of windows on your computer? I guess there's some point to it, but I don't understand.....

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If youd like some help, either send me a PM or reply with what hardware you have and what you use your computer for and I can probably help you out and get you into Linux.

Also please let me know what OS you use right now and how big your HD is.

Upgradem if you want to use Windows, to XP. It's pretty stable.

Try this from Symantec.

It will help to diagnose any disk 'clutter' or any errors that may be present. I don't think that it's anything too serious.

The one that you **** when you see it is "Primary master Disk Fail' on bootup! That's a BITCH!

Good luck with your prob, hope this helps a bit....


D.

My friend sent me a trojan server once for BEAST, and it seriously slowed up my computer, it ran IEXPLORE at like 95% system resources so i was crawling... you could possibly have that. I had to reinstall windows. I think you should backup your files incase you have to do anything like that. and also think about upgrading to XP.

Win Me.. best reason Microsoft gave for Linux to be installed.. .. There are many reasons why me is slow.. from a hardware prob (yeh yeh ..i know 95 is OK) to a crap program .. or a virus.. start with how the duel boot was done.. what is the boot manager that is being used....

Gore .. some times you are as subtle as some one swatting a fly on their head with a house brick (but I laugh anyhow)

Cheers

You may have a hardware problem old chap!

WIN Me wants a P1 150 MHz processor or better, and will frustrate any attempt to load on a lower specification machine. This restriction is quite easily circumvented by a couple of DOS instructions, which your PC engineer may have used.

My personal experience is that if you do not have at LEAST a Pentium 2 running at 266MHz or better, and at least 64Mb of RAM; forget about Millenium Edition. For earlier processors (Pentium 1's) and less RAM, the best you can do is WIN98 (at least it supports USB).

I have a collection of old PCs, so I have been able to look at this sort of problem. WIN95 will work fine with a P1 120MHz processor and 16 Mb of RAM (memory strips). It even performs reasonably well on a 90MHz P1. Remember that the quality of RAM matters as well: EDO is not as good as PC66, which is not as good as PC100 which is not as good as PC133 and so on..

Win98 really needs 64Mb of memory and Me wants 128Mb to work as well as Win95 with 32Mb.

I have noted the suggestions to upgrade to Win XP..........I have that as well! It wants 256Mb of RAM and a P3 processor running at 866MHz or better (I would suggest 1GHz). On a "good" machine, the XP upgrade could give you between 20 and 30 percent performance improvement over Win 9x; but only with a fast and modern processor, and lots of RAM.

It could be that all your machine needs is a memory (RAM) upgrade? and it will run Win Me just as well as 95.

I notice that you are from Bogota? would it help if I re-posted this message in French? (en Francais?)

bon chance et a bientot mon ami!

You may have a hardware problem old chap!

WIN Me wants a P1 150 MHz processor or better, and will frustrate any attempt to load on a lower specification machine. This restriction is quite easily circumvented by a couple of DOS instructions, which your PC engineer may have used.

My personal experience is that if you do not have at LEAST a Pentium 2 running at 266MHz or better, and at least 64Mb of RAM; forget about Millenium Edition. For earlier processors (Pentium 1's) and less RAM, the best you can do is WIN98 (at least it supports USB).

I have a collection of old PCs, so I have been able to look at this sort of problem. WIN95 will work fine with a P1 120MHz processor and 16 Mb of RAM (memory strips). It even performs reasonably well on a 90MHz P1. Remember that the quality of RAM matters as well: EDO is not as good as PC66, which is not as good as PC100 which is not as good as PC133 and so on..

Win98 really needs 64Mb of memory and Me wants 128Mb to work as well as Win95 with 32Mb.

I have noted the suggestions to upgrade to Win XP..........I have that as well! It wants 256Mb of RAM and a P3 processor running at 866MHz or better (I would suggest 1GHz). On a "good" machine, the XP upgrade could give you between 20 and 30 percent performance improvement over Win 9x; but only with a fast and modern processor, and lots of RAM.

It could be that all your machine needs is a memory (RAM) upgrade? and it will run Win Me just as well as 95.

I notice that you are from Bogota? would it help if I re-posted this message in French? (en Francais?)

bon chance et a bientot mon ami!

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hmmm French? Bogota, Colombia; South America; language = spanish ;) just my 2 cents

But hey you are right about Windows Me needs hardware to perform decently
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I got ME on my box for the moment too. It's true what they say: ME stands for Many Errors :).

Personally I too think it's a hardware problem. The higher a version, the more performance you need (most of the time). Windows 95 runs faster too on my PC then ME.

One of my box has installed Windows ME, initially it was hang like hell. Well, it was due to too many invalid registry. I have used the System mechanic to clear all the rubbish and so far I didn't see the blue screen for almost 6 months.

The System mechanic can be downloade from here : http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=98

It's a shareware, but I believe 30 days trial is enough to clear all the Sh*t. All the invalid system registry found by System mechanic is safe to clear.

Good luck!

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Originally posted here by jaguar291
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I agree with Jaguar291 here since the more demanding OS (ME) is the only one with slowdown. Posting Specs would be a nice place to start.... :)