SoftLadSTEJ

How stupid am I?

Thanks, but I worry I'll disable the wrong things, and then it'll never start Windows again!!!!!! ;*( Sometimes I wonder if it's a problem with Shockwave causing it all, because sometimes when my browsers are going slowly, it'll say there's problems with Adobe Shockwave!!!!!! I heard that with Google Chrome, it has an integrated Flash app, so any others that get installed become embroiled in conflicts with it, and cause turmoil on one's computer that way!!!!!! So I tried removing all but one of the Shockwave things once, and while it made a temporary improvement, it soon started going slow again. ;*( Switching over to Firefox has improved things somewhat, but I still get the Shockwave problems sometimes!!!!!!! I'm thinking that maybe if these problems are just confined to browsing the Internet though, then hopefully I should still be able to play TS!!!!!!!! ;*D Seeing videos of Caseal playing on YouTube have made me want to play again. ;*P Is there no tournament ladder, though? ;*(

Which is a problem... how? l I'm pretty sure leaving my bedroom desktop PC on for months at a time is what reduced it to the state it is now, where it takes several attempts to start up. ;*( I never even turn it on anymore, because I'm convinced pressing the POWER ON button several times fruitlessly is even more detrimental to its health!!!!!!! Nah, that shouldn't be a problem. I had a desktop PC that literally ran for years without me shutting it down and with no problems. And it wasn't getting to sleep much either, while I was sleeping, it was blasting music... Well, I did restart it lots and lots on certain days because of my OCD, but I didn't think I did it that much to cause such problems to it!!!!!!

LOL at the Frietag name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said in one of his TS videos on YouTube that he has a very German soldier look to him!!!!!!!!!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! They sound as scary as xenomorphs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;*(

Which is a problem... how? I'm pretty sure leaving my bedroom desktop PC on for months at a time is what reduced it to the state it is now, where it takes several attempts to start up. ;*( I never even turn it on anymore, because I'm convinced pressing the POWER ON button several times fruitlessly is even more detrimental to its health!!!!!!!

Hah! :laugh:

Sounds amazing, thanks!!!!!!! ;*D If my PC started in a couple of seconds, I'd be getting paranoid, thinking I'd accidentally left it on all night. ;*(

Are you Seb? ;*D

What's SSD???????!!!!!!! ;*O My laptop's a HP Pavilion dv6!!!!!!!!!! It cost about £500 or so back in 2012, and given the fact that the best gaming laptops can be over £1,000, it makes me wonder if maybe I was looking in the wrong field when I said 6GB of RAM!!!!! It can all be very confusing!!! ;*( And thanks for the advice!!!!!!!!! ;*D It's been faster in general now I've started with Firefox instead of Chrome, but it's still not perfect!!!!!! So now I'm just hoping maybe ad aware scans will keep it fast from now on!!!!!! ;*D

I used to love the colour patch when it was first released on FS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a shame it was so flawed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;*( And that black looks really nice!!!!!!!!! ;*P

Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! You're agreeing with the baby loving man??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has the world truly turned upside down????????!!!!!!!!! You used to always look so smart and wholesome in your German army uniforms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;*( I always knew that if you kept drinking, it would turn you bad!!!!!!!!!!!! ;*(

STEFOR!!!!!!!!!!!! I've missed you!!!!!!!!!! ;*( Are you on FaceBook???????? ;*D Sometimes I've thought back to the old Champsite days and felt guilty, thinking I should've posted more when it was going through its waning days!!!!!!!!!!!! ;*( And is Kanexxz still involved in the community?????/ ;*O He had such a great personality!!!!!!!!! ;*D

Thanks a lot!!!!!! ;*D I'll try reinstalling/system restoring as a last resort, though!!!!!!! It seems like a long, daunting task, and a big upheaval!!!!!!! ;*( I heard dabbling in partitions is excessively complicated, and can be dangerous to one's PC, also!!!!!!! ;*(

Thanks!!!!!! ;*D Do you have to take apart a laptop in order to clean the fans????? After all, I heard of someone in a YouTube video taking his laptop apart to clean his fan which was deep inside, and finding a TON of dust covering it!!!!!!!

I have about 6-7 Chrome.exe duplicates running in the processes list, and I'm wondering if that's the problem, since they use the most amount of memory out of all the items on the list!!!!!!!! Is it okay to stop those from running?????/ ;*O

Interestingly enough, I used to have lots of problems with Skype!!!!! Turning it off could be nightmarish the way how it would freeze when I was trying to shut it down!!!!!!1 ;*( It got so bad that I don't use Skype unless someone wants me to go on it now!!!!! I prefer to use FaceBook and Steam as messengers!!!!!!! I looked at my task manager just then, and there was about 30 items on the list!!!!! Several of the Google Chrome entries looked like repeat entries since they seemed kind of similar, but part of me wonders if they're still necessary, and that some fatal error will occur if I tamper with them!!!! ;*( I'm always fearful of removing things from lists like that in case I lose Windows forever!!!!!! ;*( I know you REALLY SHOULDN'T shut down Explorer.exe I think, but I'm wondering if there's others that should NEVER be shut down!!!!!!! At a guess, I'd say it takes my laptop 60 seconds to start up, or maybe 90 if I was to err on the side of caution!!!! This is just a guess though, and I'll try to remember to be more observant in regards to the speed next time I start it up!!!!!! There's 6.00GB of RAM with 2.00GB being usable, and it has a 1.70GHZ processor!!!!!!1

Thanks for that!!!!!! ;*D It was kinda fun. ;*D It said my ping was 10ms, my download speed was 25.93mbps, and my upload speed was 3.05mbps!!!!! I don't know if that's good or bad!!!!! Another thing that seems to happen quite often is that it'll say at the top of my Chrome browser that there's some kind of issue with the Shockwave Flash plugin, and yet all the times I've looked into the manner in the Chrome:plugins list, I've never been able to fix the problem!!!!! I've heard this kind of thing is common with Chrome because it has a built in shockwave Flash plugin which can conflict with any installed ones, and that it can be fixed by disabling one of them, but that never really worked for me, either!!!!!! ;*( There'd be temporary improvements, but then it'd start slowing down again!!!!!! ;*( And sometimes I've wondered if it's the Internet that's slow for me, because it seemed to slow down rather suddenly when we changed or Internet box!!!!!!

Thanks, but they don't let you do that with Windows 7, do they??????? I mean the way how they don't give you a DVD with it on, or anything like that?????!!!!!!!

I tried finding him on FaceBook weeks ago, but couldn't!!!!!!!! ;*( Mikerara, a.k.a. FakeMammy, a.k.a. Fake Foreva1st, a.k.a. MutantRab, a.k.a. Eminem's greatest threat in the rapping world!!!!!

Nice story!!!!!! I always hated how overpowered nod got in long games with artillery everywhere, stealthed bases and banshees roaring over the map!!!!!!

My laptop came with Norton, and sometimes I've had prompts to activate it!!!!!!!1 With all the bad things I've heard about it, I feel the same tension as I would with disarming a bomb when I close the window, doing my best not to activate it!!!!!!!!!

You still sound the same TRZ, with every sentence sounding like an accusation, rather than an actual sentence!!!!!!!!! ;*P Although come to think of it, almost everyone on TS sounded that way in the past!!!!!!!!! ;*P

Lurker's asked me to come back, so I have. ;*D And because we've moved away from Strike-Team which seemed to be wreaking havoc with my Internet connection, that's made it possible for me to come back!!!!!! Of course, I can't guarantee I'll be able to play TS, because when I was talking to Lurker, I forgot to mention how my laptop/connection have been painfully slow for months now!!!!!!!! ;*( Even when playing FaceBook Tetris, I've been losing lots of games because the pieces have been falling in places I haven't wanted them to because of my lag!!!!!!! ;*( I've tried virus scans and ad aware scans, and sometimes they've had temporary beneficial effects, but usually my laptop slows up again after a few days!!!!!1 ;*( Maybe it's just age, and three years is "old" for a laptop, and I need to replace it, but it was a decent model for its time, and the hard drive isn't anywhere near being full I don't think, so I'm hoping it isn't that!!!!!!!! Also bear in mind I used to leave it switched on at the wall socket for months and months at a time, even though I'd switch the actual machine off, so I'm wondering if maybe that's caused some inner deterioration to the workings of the laptop????? But I've been switching it off at the wall more regularly now, so I was hoping that might be able to reverse any damage incurred!!!!! But all in all, sometimes I feel like I might end up putting up with this slowness on this laptop for the rest of its lifetime!!!!!! And if it lags on FaceBook Tetris, I've no idea how it'll perform on TS!!!!!!!!! ;*(