Pc Help

[Big_eyes]

My computer is driving me insane to say the least.

For the past two weeks it has been terribly slow and the mouse just keeps freezing every few seconds as well as clicking random things itself occasionally when moving.

It all started with the mouse just freezing and not moving at all, occasionally losing the drivers for it too. A quick restart or restore would solve it for a while but now it just freezes constantly for a few seconds every few seconds.

I've ran many different scanners including malwarebytes, superantispyware, avast, avg and others that I've downloaded in turn. All to find nothing. I've ran a disk cleanup and a defrag many times and I've tried lowering graphics and mouse settings just incase. Still the problem persists though!

What could it be?

This is a Dell desktop pc running windows xp if it helps

 

[razer121]

cloged up hdd maybe? have you tryed a different mouse? what about the state of the hdd? how full is it? is the memory ok? have you tryed memtest? lots of things to try!

 

[Big_eyes]

Hard drive wise it's a 150gig with 31gig used space..

Not tried a mouse yet but will when I get hold of one, though could a faulty mouse really cause these issues?

memory test

 

[razer121]

a faulty mouse can lag/crash yes but then drivers can and LOADS of other things can cause the problem, does the pc not give an error code or a blue screen at all?

 

[Big_eyes]

does the pc not give an error code or a blue screen at all?

Nope

 

[hillbilly]

Did you load new software or add new hardware just before the problem began?

Try running MSCONFIG and doing a diagnostic start as that will load a minimum set of drivers and startup items. If the problem goes away then you can use MSCONFIG to slowly narrow down the culprit.

Do Start-Run and type msconfig in the box. Google it for more info on how to use it.

 

[onebto]

Okay this definitely works if your running XP I have tested it numerous times. If your not ignore my waffling.

My documents if you have between 1 and 2 gig of information in the collective Microsoft formed folders in my documents then it for some odd reason will bog your OP down/

I run a separate set of folders called onedocuments with the my pictures etc inside on the same drive but outside the Microsoft's my documents folder and things work so much better.

Regards onebto

 

[razer121]

Okay this definitely works if your running XP I have tested it numerous times. If your not ignore my waffling.

My documents if you have between 1 and 2 gig of information in the collective Microsoft formed folders in my documents then it for some odd reason will bog your OP down/

I run a separate set of folders called onedocuments with the my pictures etc inside on the same drive but outside the Microsoft's my documents folder and things work so much better.

Regards onebto

i can easily say i never had that problem back in the day lol

 

[Big_eyes]

Sorted now - lots of corrupt/missing files and a dead mouse :roll:

 

[razer121]

lol glad you got it sorted mate