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How did the laptop perform immediately after you did a factory reset a few months ago?
I was always a fan of Opera too, but they've actually now switched over the the same basic platform as Google Chrome. The old Opera development team have now created their own web browser called Vivaldi, it's very much in development though so still a bit buggy at times!
As much as I loathe to say it... the latest version of Internet Explorer seems remarkably good, but if you're saying you are having problems before you even start camming, then changing your web browser won't necessarily help.
Ah, if the camming site doesn't work for you properly on Firefox, then it's not really a viable solution for you to use a different browser, from the sounds of it, the laptop is performing slowly in general, so the browser doesn't appear to be the primary cause of the problem.
Well I'm sure Avast is doing that b/c that's what it's supposed to be doing
I never had multiple anti virus software loaded until last week. I had to go onto Bleeping computer to get help b/c I couldn't work, & he had me installing a new one. Of course none of the scans helped & in fact, I now have even more issues.
My mouse now has a mind of its own. It double clicks, instead of single clicks, opens windows I never touched & is driving me insane. I can barely work b/c I am constantly trying to click. Sometimes it can take 4 clicks before I can get a window to open.
If it has a firewall or real-time protection, then it should constantly be working, but the actual virus scans should happen once, then stop. They actually work the hard drive quite hard at times, as the scan is reading through every single file for any traces of a virus, and a hard drive is mechanical, it can only do so much! It's best to schedule/run the scans when you don't actually want to work on the machine in my opinion, same with running backups, as both these things will slow the PC down.
Having more than one anti-virus isn't recommended, as in theory one should pick up viruses by itself. There are anti-malware tools which I often recommend (primarily Malwarebytes Anti-Malware), as these supplement an anti-virus, search for slightly different things, and don't tend to run in the background, only when you ask them to. I'd recommend you keep a single anti-virus tool, and try running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware every so often to check for malware.
I'm quite a fan of coolers to be honest, even when you lift up the back of the laptop it improves airflow, so when you have a separate cooler in addition blowing extra air onto the machine it can't be a bad thing!
I already went thru this 2-3 months ago with Asus. First I did a refresh, then I did a factory reset. This was re: the Win key issues, nothing to do with the lag, but I really don't want to have to go thru this again if I don't have to.
The only reason I'd be willing is b/c I barely have any data on my laptop. Now if you were telling me to reformat my desktop I'd be freaking out on you.
If you really think I should do it, I'll do it, but it's a pain getting my settings back the way I want them.
The problem with computers is that any single symptom could have a multitude of causes (like a car..), viruses, programmes running in the background, hardware failure etc... the only sure way to know whether it's the software causing a problem is to simply start again with it. If you can stick with one anti-virus, run a malware scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and disable some startup files (detailed below), then it'll at least give us an idea of what the problem is.
To disable some startup programmes...
1. Hold the windows key and the r key together to open the "Run" dialogue box. In the box that opens, type "msconfig"
2. A new window should open, in this window, click the "Startup" tab. You can theoretically untick all the boxes in this tab and the computer will fundamentally work fine (but your antivirus etc won't run in the background), so don't worry about breaking anything... untick the items in the list you don't want to startup when your computer does, literally anything that you don't want running in the background. Something you would want is the antivirus, but something you wouldn't want may be software preinstalled by Asus etc...
3. Click "Apply," then click "Ok"
4. Restart the PC to test!
Hopefully blowing the dust out should have helped this a bit!
If the Asus laptop you bought did the job okay originally, chances are it should still work fine now too, hopefully we can get it sorted for you
Some of these ads (due to the nature of the sites) will be malicious, ie, they'll ask you to click popups, and it's easy for you to accidentally click something that means you've installed something you don't want (or is malicious) on your PC. Adblock goes a long way to blocking most of these adverts.
I was afraid you were going to say that.
Thanks a ton
If you try the checklist of things I've suggested above we *might* be able to avoid having to reinstall the PC. Has the laptop been dropped or anything like that?
