Burning Electricity

[Connemmara]

Hi all - don't know whether this is the right site but here goes - sometimes in the morning it takes ages for my computer to come on ie perhaps half an hour or 3 quarters of an hour - now this past few nights I have decided to leave it on all night - am I wasting electricity and would it put my leccy bill higher. Thanks.

[Alston]

WyeDyed.....I cannot disagree with anything which you are saying in this thread. However one does have to be very careful and precise when using System Cleaners.

Consequently I would Not wish anyone with a limited knowledge of computers to use System Cleaners, as anything, but a last resort. (That would of course include me )

Al.

[WyeDyed]

Alston - I understand your reservations and, in general, agree with you. I can't count the amount of times that I have had a computer in that is running slow and the first thing I have had to do is remove half a dozen "Speed up your computer" type programs.
I recommended that particular one because I have used it often, found it to work well and be reasonably user friendly. (It also uninstalls cleanly)

[Connemmara]

My Gawd - yous have all gone technical with me - I did scan AVG that is what I have and last night scanned it for quite some time - so came on this am - about 2 mins. Thanks all for your advice anyway.

[tamborine]

just unplug your modem for 10mins so it can reset itself

[Connemmara]

okey doke tam - I know a little re modem as system crashed one time and I just pulled everything out including modem and everything came back on again.