well when i did mine it looked as though you could still use your pc , but i started it just before bedtime and left it on overnight as it took at least a few hours ...here is a link for it .

http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html

K thanks mate, i'll give it a go.

My brother formatted my computer today and all of a sudden my MSN password doesn't work

I have the same password for everything, tried 600 variations of it and I got nothing. I tried reseting my password with the 'Alternate Email' option but I have no clue where the email went because its not on either of my alternate emails.

Also using contact details and my secret question didn't work. The question isn't the one I had set! It was my question from before and I have no clue of the answer.

Anyone know what to do?

you have been hacked

I think thats what Microsoft are about to tell me. They finally replied to my email, I have to follow some instructions that have been loading for the past 10 minutes...

Fixed. Microsoft helped

Yeah I was thinking the same.

Although the form I had to fill out to reset my password, I had to reinstall Firefox because it didn't show on Microsoft Internet Explorer.

by the way , is your brother still alive ... So did you lose much important stuff then ....being that a format wipes all data from your hard drive ...

Format is great, as long as you backup the important information.

i`m sure Boris thought it was great too ....

Conner, i did the defragmentation thing, and only sped it up by 8%. Is there anything else that can make a bigger improvement?

Download and run a program called CCleaner

I lost a business assignment I have been doing for the last 8 months which is worth 40% of my Business marks this year, a history assignment I have due in 4 days worth 35% and my Football Manager 08 file!

FM08 was a little more important to me then the school stuff

Will do bigman. Is it worth it?

oh yeah .....it clears a lot of junk (old files , unwanted registry entries , duplicate files )from your hard drive and helps to make your pc more stable and potentialy faster , worth a try i would say .


Oh , by the way , it could also be worth running that defrag again .....i got an extra 10% boost when i ran it a second time ..

I've done both of the ones mentioned. The CCleaner seemed to clear more than the other one. It gave a list of all the stuff that was going to be cleared, and there was loads. It seems to have helped aswell, bit faster than before.

I've done the CCleaner twice, and the auslogics defrag twice, and its not got any better. Is there anything else worth giving a go, or is my computer just too sh*t?

well it could be ... there is only so much you can gain from these programs . What processor do you have .....how old is it .

dude remember, spag talk with me.

is that xp and all that? if so, then i have windows xp.