Recent content by Josh

good news I think :) I download Auslogics BoostSpeed 4.1 and did a disk clean-up, registry clean-up, disk defrag and registry defrag and I haven't needed to restart my laptop yet :) turned it on at 10pm last night and it's currently 3:03pm. Hopefully I haven't jinxed myself, I'd like to...

none of that apart from the Windows Defender being disabled section, but I'm still not sure if I've done that or not Addendum: I apologise if this is double posting...I managed to get a screenshot of the error message:

I've been getting this start-up error for just over a week now I think and I'm just curious to know if this could be anything to do with the worm you suggested or just something I have done

It's been happening for about 2-3 months I think now, I haven't installed anything on here that I haven't installed on any other of the 2 pc's in this house so I don't think it's that. I have Zone Alarm Pro and Search And Destroy and they haven't found the problem yet if the problem is a worm or...

I can't seem to find step; 4,5 and 6 :|

ah sorry, yes it is Vista, and when it happens I can't open anything at all, task manager, paint, my documents, internet browser etc...you name it I can't open it :p

every 5-6 hours I need to restart my laptop because when I try to open something it says I might not have permission to do some or something along those lines, just wondering if there's a solution to this problem other than system restore? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.