Have, of course, been googling and trying certain things, but no fix yet. Windows 7 Home Premium.

Some symptoms:

- reduced speed

- some graphics look slightly less slick (e.g. fonts more pixelated)

- Flash video halting and/or dropping frames

Any help would be MOST appreciated!

Do u have an image of your harddrive 2 restore?

sounds like a graphic card drivers problem; though: the reduced speed is in general (starting windows, opening folders/browser, software, etc), or just while watching videos?

Graycap23 said:

Do u have an image of your harddrive 2 restore?

I don't think so.

JoeTyler said:

sounds like a graphic card drivers problem; though: the reduced speed is in general (starting windows, opening folders/browser, software, etc), or just while watching videos?

In general.

Ace said:

Graycap23 said:

Do u have an image of your harddrive 2 restore?

I don't think so.

Most computers can restore to a date when things were running well.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

Graycap23 said:

Ace said:

I don't think so.

Most computers can restore to a date when things were running well.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

I already tried a couple of restores and it didn't help.

Ace said:

Graycap23 said:

Most computers can restore to a date when things were running well.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

I already tried a couple of restores and it didn't help.

In the case, backup your personal files and reinstall with the start up disk.

Graycap23 said:

Ace said:

I already tried a couple of restores and it didn't help.

In the case, backup your personal files and reinstall with the start up disk.

Thanks, Graycap. I'm a-scurred, though.

i think i kind of hate flashplayer. i have a LOT of trouble with auto updates on that program, it sets itself up; i read steve jobs condemned it to the deepest parts of PC hell. i'd uninstall it if i could but it's so freaking necessary on the internets ....

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Steve Jobs hated Flash. Hated it. And not just a little bit.

"Flash is a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems," he said, according to biographer Walter Isaacson in his book published earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it will no longer be developing Flash, its media-player tool, for mobile devices. More than a few bloggers have noted the news would have been vindication for the late Apple co-founder, who felt betrayed by Adobe more than a decade ago. . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/tech/mobile/flash-steve-jobs/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/tech/mobile/flash-steve-jobs/index.html

[Edited 8/16/15 18:33pm]

Ace said:

Graycap23 said:

In the case, backup your personal files and reinstall with the start up disk.

Thanks, Graycap. I'm a-scurred, though.

Make sure u back up your stuff.

There is nothing 2 it.

XxAxX said:

i think i kind of hate flashplayer. i have a LOT of trouble with auto updates on that program, it sets itself up; i read steve jobs condemned it to the deepest parts of PC hell. i'd uninstall it if i could but it's so freaking necessary on the internets ....

.

Steve Jobs hated Flash. Hated it. And not just a little bit.

"Flash is a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems," he said, according to biographer Walter Isaacson in his book published earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it will no longer be developing Flash, its media-player tool, for mobile devices. More than a few bloggers have noted the news would have been vindication for the late Apple co-founder, who felt betrayed by Adobe more than a decade ago. . . .

Yeah, I know Jobs hated Flash.

Graycap23 said:

Ace said:

Thanks, Graycap. I'm a-scurred, though.

Make sure u back up your stuff.

There is nothing 2 it.

I back up my stuff all the time, but I'm gonna try and restore once more.

Thanks, Graycap!

Ace said:

XxAxX said:

i think i kind of hate flashplayer. i have a LOT of trouble with auto updates on that program, it sets itself up; i read steve jobs condemned it to the deepest parts of PC hell. i'd uninstall it if i could but it's so freaking necessary on the internets ....

.

Steve Jobs hated Flash. Hated it. And not just a little bit.

"Flash is a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems," he said, according to biographer Walter Isaacson in his book published earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it will no longer be developing Flash, its media-player tool, for mobile devices. More than a few bloggers have noted the news would have been vindication for the late Apple co-founder, who felt betrayed by Adobe more than a decade ago. . . .

Yeah, I know Jobs hated Flash.

i once accidentally 'updated' to a virus-laden version of flashplayer. suffice it to say - beware the pop-ups that demand you upgrade to the new version of flash, go to the official page for updates. if a pop-up upgrade happened to you, have your PC checked. hope things work out!

XxAxX said:

Ace said:

Yeah, I know Jobs hated Flash.

i once accidentally 'updated' to a virus-laden version of flashplayer. suffice it to say - beware the pop-ups that demand you upgrade to the new version of flash, go to the official page for updates. if a pop-up upgrade happened to you, have your PC checked. hope things work out!

Thanks, XxAxX!

Ace said:

XxAxX said:

i once accidentally 'updated' to a virus-laden version of flashplayer. suffice it to say - beware the pop-ups that demand you upgrade to the new version of flash, go to the official page for updates. if a pop-up upgrade happened to you, have your PC checked. hope things work out!

Thanks, XxAxX!

This is one the main reasons I switced 2 Mac's at home.

I have one PC attached to my Printers at home, other I'm 100% Mac at the house.

Graycap23 said:

Ace said:

Thanks, XxAxX!

This is one the main reasons I switced 2 Mac's at home.

I have one PC attached to my Printers at home, other I'm 100% Mac at the house.

because of flash specifically, or because of the various security threats PC offers in general???

Graycap23 said:

Ace said:

Thanks, XxAxX!

This is one the main reasons I switced 2 Mac's at home.

I have one PC attached to my Printers at home, other I'm 100% Mac at the house.

I went PC because Macs weren't available with a Blu-ray drive. Is that still the case?

Every few days i run this utility program called glary utilities. It's a program that cleans up temporary files, start ups, shortcuts and old registry entries. It works good and might help. Also you can use the task manager to see which programs and processes you're running when things start acting up. You can try closing a program or process tree(in task manager), to see if the problem goes away, once the program is closed. Something running in the background(and starts up automatically) could be causing the problem and taxing your CPU. It also could be a ram memory problem or a display/apperance or personalization, problem. That's in addition to what JoeTyler said about the graphics card.

The sucky thing is it could be almost anything that's causing the problem. Its probably something simple though.

XxAxX said:

Graycap23 said:

This is one the main reasons I switced 2 Mac's at home.

I have one PC attached to my Printers at home, other I'm 100% Mac at the house.

because of flash specifically, or because of the various security threats PC offers in general???

PC's in general.

JoeyC said:

Every few days i run this utility program called glary utilities. It's a program that cleans up temporary files, start ups, shortcuts and old registry entries. It works good and might help. Also you can use the task manager to see which programs and processes you're running when things start acting up. You can try closing a program or process tree(in task manager), to see if the problem goes away, once the program is closed. Something running in the background(and starts up automatically) could be causing the problem and taxing your CPU. It also could be a ram memory problem or a display/apperance or personalization, problem. That's in addition to what JoeTyler said about the graphics card.

Thanks, JoeyC!

Ace said:

JoeyC said:

Every few days i run this utility program called glary utilities. It's a program that cleans up temporary files, start ups, shortcuts and old registry entries. It works good and might help. Also you can use the task manager to see which programs and processes you're running when things start acting up. You can try closing a program or process tree(in task manager), to see if the problem goes away, once the program is closed. Something running in the background(and starts up automatically) could be causing the problem and taxing your CPU. It also could be a ram memory problem or a display/apperance or personalization, problem. That's in addition to what JoeTyler said about the graphics card.

Thanks, JoeyC!

now that I think about it, delete ALL content in the %TEMP% folder

JoeTyler said:

Ace said:

Thanks, JoeyC!

now that I think about it, delete ALL content in the %TEMP% folder

Will try!

Ace said:

JoeTyler said:

now that I think about it, delete ALL content in the %TEMP% folder

Will try!

win+R, type %TEMP% + enter, delete all content (don't hesitate)

Ace said:

Have, of course, been googling and trying certain things, but no fix yet. Windows 7 Home Premium.

Some symptoms:

- reduced speed

- some graphics look slightly less slick (e.g. fonts more pixelated)

- Flash video halting and/or dropping frames

Any help would be MOST appreciated!

Sounds like your hard drive is overloaded and killing your video card. They are all connected to the motherboard so when one is on overkill everything else attached gets burned out. You may need a new video card + clear your cache and temp files so increases processing times. Does your fan come on often? Is your PC loud?

Get a Mac. You're welcome.

LeonardZelig said:

Ace said:

Have, of course, been googling and trying certain things, but no fix yet. Windows 7 Home Premium.

Some symptoms:

- reduced speed

- some graphics look slightly less slick (e.g. fonts more pixelated)

- Flash video halting and/or dropping frames

Any help would be MOST appreciated!

Sounds like your hard drive is overloaded and killing your video card. They are all connected to the motherboard so when one is on overkill everything else attached gets burned out. You may need a new video card + clear your cache and temp files so increases processing times. Does your fan come on often? Is your PC loud?

It was for a little while. Will check this out. Thanks!

Genesia said:

Get a Mac. You're welcome.

Bro, why dont you take this opportunity to try out LINUX?

domainator2010 said:

Bro, why dont you take this opportunity to try out LINUX?

Let's not get crazy here.