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RAM 1.00 GB (2.09 GHz)
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I hope I'm in the right forum, if not appologies. I would be grateful for your help. I have read in previous posts about computers running slow but I think my problem may different as I am having other problems as well. Below is a list of what has been happening.

I have noticed this week that my computer is running slow, almost to a standstill.

I have over 20 icons on my desktop and each takes over a minute or more to open.

Whenever I try to open Microsoft Office (2000) again it takes up to a minute or more to open.

Every time I click on any document/folder in Microsoft Office, even the ones I’ve had for some time, it requests a virus scan, again this takes forever.

I don’t know if this is related but my wireless keyboard has stopped functioning. (I’m using my daughter’s laptop.) The cursor appears in the document and I can move it around with the mouse, I can also use the mouse in the menu bar etc, but I cannot type anything.

With the keyboard not functioning I cannot sign in to various sites on the net (including WebUser)

On the internet (Orange Broadband) every site and link can take from 5 mins or more to not loading at all. Again I don't know if this related but I cant't get in to my online banking.

I have run AV, Spybot etc in safe mode but this has failed to rectify the problem. I have checked the event viewer logs as recommended by John McKenna and found the following error reports for 26 and 27 Feb: (which I do not understand but hopefully someone in the forums will) I’m also hoping that the following was caused because I was in Safe Mode otherwise I think I have a big problem.

DCOM error: This service cannot be started in Safe Mode, attempting to start the service Stisvc in order to run server.

The following boot-start or system-start drivers failed to load.
AFD
AMDK7
Fips
IPsec
MrxSmb
NetBT
RasAcd
Rdbss
SYMTDI
Tcpip

DHCP Client service depends on NetBt service which failed to start because of the following errors:

A device attached to the system is not functioning.

DNS client service depends on the TCP/IP Protocol Driver Service

TCP/IP NetBios Helper service depends on the AGD Networking Support Environment Service.

IPSEC services depends on the IPSEC driver service.

All the above failed to start because a device attached to the system is not functioning.

And finally, I recently installed my daughters wireless connection for her laptop (Belkin)whereas before I would have to login on Orange, I now no longer have to do so because the login window has transferred to my daughters laptop. I don,t know why this has happened as it is my account.

Whenever I want to go online I just click on the IE icon and I am online straight away. Why do I no longer have to logon to my account? Am I constently online and if so is this a security risk. My reason for asking this is that If I am always online then maybe I have picked up a virus that has caused all these problems.

I'm sorry there is so much to deal with but they have all happened at the same time therefore i think they must all be related.

I hope that someone will be able to tell me what the problem is. (In plain English please.)

Thanks for your time.
Turlac

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