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raidencmc · 02-13-2007, 11:00 AM

A few months a go I noticed that my laptop was getting a bit sluggish. First
I ran my nortons and spysweeper removed all spyware and had no viruses(both are up to date). I ran the basic utilities Defrag and cleanup. I did not get much improvement. I then went and removed any unused programs and files. Still with no improvement. I don't think that I have done anything that
would have exposed me to a virus or any other type malicious software but you never know. The next issue I encountered was a group of pixels would be black on my desktop background it was the shape of a triangle and the longest side was convex. It would always appear at the same place on the screen. I would drag an Icon or an open window across it and it would vanish. Sometimes days and even weeks would pass before it came back. Other times minutes. The other thing that started happening was I when I booted up was I would get a dialog box asking me something about enabling or disabling HotKey which I never saw before. I am not sure if it is related to the problem I just assumed it was an update. It has an Icon in the Sys Tray with a circle and a slash through it. You can not click on it or anything. The next issue was that my wireless connection would cut out every once in awhile. After further investigation I also observed the speed to fluctuate, The signal strength was always very good. I tested the wired connection and it is fine. I got very frustrated after several restores I ended up formating the HD and reinstalling windows. I still get the same problems. The Hotkey issue showed up right away as did the connections issues, they are both the same as described above. The pixel issue is the same shape but I get 3 at once. On of which is in the same place as it used to be. Help with any suggestions.

Recently I went in to system configuration and on the startup tab I found a file or at least a place where a file should be. It had a box checked and everything was blank no location, no command. Someone had questioned my fan it comes on. It does not run all the time.

I was just looking in the system information and observed that there were several wan cards. I have one I could not imagine there being more than that but I am not knowledgable enough to say so.

Laptop
XP SP2
1.3 ghz Processor
256 megs of RAM
Toshiba satellite L15-S104

02-13-2007, 11:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
raidencmc Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 10 OS: XP	Virus or hardware issue A few months a go I noticed that my laptop was getting a bit sluggish. First I ran my nortons and spysweeper removed all spyware and had no viruses(both are up to date). I ran the basic utilities Defrag and cleanup. I did not get much improvement. I then went and removed any unused programs and files. Still with no improvement. I don't think that I have done anything that would have exposed me to a virus or any other type malicious software but you never know. The next issue I encountered was a group of pixels would be black on my desktop background it was the shape of a triangle and the longest side was convex. It would always appear at the same place on the screen. I would drag an Icon or an open window across it and it would vanish. Sometimes days and even weeks would pass before it came back. Other times minutes. The other thing that started happening was I when I booted up was I would get a dialog box asking me something about enabling or disabling HotKey which I never saw before. I am not sure if it is related to the problem I just assumed it was an update. It has an Icon in the Sys Tray with a circle and a slash through it. You can not click on it or anything. The next issue was that my wireless connection would cut out every once in awhile. After further investigation I also observed the speed to fluctuate, The signal strength was always very good. I tested the wired connection and it is fine. I got very frustrated after several restores I ended up formating the HD and reinstalling windows. I still get the same problems. The Hotkey issue showed up right away as did the connections issues, they are both the same as described above. The pixel issue is the same shape but I get 3 at once. On of which is in the same place as it used to be. Help with any suggestions. Recently I went in to system configuration and on the startup tab I found a file or at least a place where a file should be. It had a box checked and everything was blank no location, no command. Someone had questioned my fan it comes on. It does not run all the time. I was just looking in the system information and observed that there were several wan cards. I have one I could not imagine there being more than that but I am not knowledgable enough to say so. Laptop XP SP2 1.3 ghz Processor 256 megs of RAM Toshiba satellite L15-S104