Need Computer help

I didn't reformat, but I tried to system restore and it won't work!!!

Could something on my computer be preventing this from happening?

Correction, check out memory usage in your task manager. If you see something constantly changing, that could be it. Also, check out if something goes over 50-60MB. If you're not running anything but the task manager, there should be nothing running with that type of size.

I have so much stuff in my task manager I have to keep on scrolling down to see new stuff. And ALOT of things are changing. Ahh i odnt know what to do :(

thanks for all the help guys, I just hope my computer doesnt crash.....

I didn't reformat, but I tried to system restore and it won't work!!!

Could something on my computer be preventing this from happening?

I'm pretty sure the cause of your problems isn't spyware/malware. It's time to back up your prOn and reformat.

I'm pretty sure the cause of your problems isn't spyware/malware. It's time to back up your prOn and reformat.

bummer, I guess that is the only option.

I don't even have all the disks they give you to install stuff in the beginning. That is all at home. Great.....

You are solidly in reformatville. Anything you do will only delay the inevitable. The machine is dying and the only way to fix it is to kill it and bring it back alive. It will fix all your problems(outside of physical issues like mem failure of course). Oh and stop downloading/installing and unistalling crap. That seriously screws with the puter Keep it lean and mean. Run what you need and like. Leave all the crappy games and screen savers and stuff for everyone else to mess up their machines. You probably don't even use 85% of the stuff.

Yeah it just jumped to about 391 MB of ram being used.

Its needs to be reformatted.

Yeah it just jumped to about 391 MB of ram being used.

Which means it is page caching 135 mb of RAM. That will kill just about any machine.

Ok so I reformatted. I do not have my drivers CD, which sucks but I had my XP CD. So windows is installed and I did install an antivirus software.

I still have a couple issues. I have a widescreen laptop and right now the settings make it look very distorted. It looks liked a streched image. Is that because I am missing some kind of video/graphics driver?

Also when I scroll up and down, like on this site for example, it doesnt flow smoothly like it did before. This one is hard to explain, but I know something is missing.

Thanks for the continued help guys.