Help with computer.

[RyanTheCaveman]

yeh i should tell him.
but this is XP home edition and there is system restore.

[Skink]

Chances are that he also borked rystem restore... here is a page on system restore... you need to find a date before the viruses and restore to that date...

How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP

does the Computer freeze or just the video screen???

[Prunedale]

First off list your system specs

If you "just can't play video" and everything else is working narrow your problem down.

Is your system fast enough in its current state??

Reformatting will fix it for sure, but are these videos on your hd? Or you streaming from the net?

If its video, then its video. Try opening your box, and reseating your card make sure the fan is working keeping it cool.

The freezing could be from your video card getting too hot and locking up your pc. Video cards and freezing go hand in hand.

Make sure your players are up to date with the codecs and what not you need.

While your at it blow out your system of all the dust.

Save all your files on a separate partition or drive and start over is the best thing if you have all your progs, should take you about a day to get everything really nice and dialed.

And I don't utilize system restores, I maintain every setting manually. Plus Sys Restore takes alot of space..

drivers are important yes. get the latest and make sure you got your open gl or direct x stuff too. Calling on actions with non supported drivers can cause problems.

[babystarbud]

have you installed an up to date version of directx9

if the rest of xp is working ok, thats the first thing to do.

[RyanTheCaveman]

ok i re did the computer(f-disked again). and now it is better. i can play videos on youtube and stuff. but it still freezes while i dont know brosing the net watching videos. like WMP. i try playing a video and it gets super slow and twitchy. i dont know waht to do.

[slipknotpsycho]

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[The Figment]

Go to My Computer
Go to Properties
Look at the system specs and post them here It helps if we know what we are dealing with

For example heres mine...
Debain (Elive) Linux OS on a

Dell Dimenison XPS T600r
600mgz PIII
784 Meg Ram, PC 133
8 Gig SCSI HD
52x24x52x CDR-RW
16 Meg Matrox Vid Card
Soundblaster Live Soundcard
T 10/100 Ethernet card
Happuage TV Card
Altec-Lansing 340 watt suond system

You wont need all this info but you get the Idea