Computers & Tablets

[shootnpinkstarr]

 I bought my computer from amazononline its the ACER Aspire One mini*pink* laptop.. windows xp..

my computer was running great when i received it and started it up for the first time.. MY brother went on downloaded limewire and then it started acting crazy.

 so i decided to uninstall it and be done with that was my thought... i was wrong.. my computer would act up here and there , barely noticed that it was acting funny.. well then this april 1 worm thing going around i had at the time MCAFEE and obviously didnt prevent anything destroying my computer. so then april 1st came and i uninstalled mcafee and called my cable co ( time warner ) and they offered virus,spyware etc

protection so i installed that and now my computer is still acting crazy and its worst than before...

 When i foirst received my computer it was great,windows started up fine,no problems.......

now .. forget about it!... when i turn my computer on in the morning,afternoon or night it takes windows

10 mins to load ( black screen with windows xp displayed and the small box with it loading )

when the user screen appears to choose which user to log in ,. it plays windows music well that dragggggs ,even when im on a website that has sound that dragggggggggs...

 so ever since april 1 my computer has been screwed up... Well atleast on MY USER , now my bf has his own user name but we never logged into his but since my user log in would take forever to load and or do anything i been using his user login, but i deleted my user and all its folder & contents and im still having the same problem except its a tiny bit better but no where near to when i first bought it.

WHEW>...... So what i want to know is.... by using the F11 to recover ( if my comp allows it ) will that work or would i need and or be best if i  take it to geek squad? ..How much would it cost?

[Nokia]

If you recover to factory settings? Yes. You probably have a virus and/or tons of spyware from limewire.

[hockeycanuckjc Trusted Contributor]

F11 is the best route to go in this case, Geek Squad could do this for you but it would be mighty expensive otherwise.

[RealGeorgeW Valued Expert · Accepted solution]

To do an Operating System install is $129.99.

I would try to do a system restore first though, to be honest.

 Glad to hear you got rid of the waste of space that is McAfee. There's a reason we don't carry it anymore(at least my store).

[shootnpinkstarr]

I want to thank everyone  for all the advice and yes i did a recovery and my computer is back to normal but ..... i have the CA Securtiy Center that my Cable company ( time warner NYC ) offers with the internet services provided to me, well i run the spyware every morning and it still comes up but its like 4 at max but before the recovery it was like 12 of them so i guess its a tad bit better....

so thankk you all alot again .

Sarah

[Nokia]

They're probably all tracking cookies, which are harmless and normal.

[del]

modem for COMCAST internet service, they sent me a list of approved ones i need help on which one to order  -- thanks -- del