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Laptop keeps failing to start up?
My laptop is only a few months old, but after a couple months, one day it suddenly wouldn't start Windows up. Before this, it worked completely fine, with no warning of problems, and it had antivirus protection installed. After a few months and having to completely restore the computer, I was able to get it working again. But this morning, only a couple weeks after getting it working again, when I opened it, it would immediately go to a start up error window. It gave me a few options to send or not send details to Microsoft, and the only option that actually made any progress was to restore the computer *again*. It works again now fine, and I've downloaded AVG antivirus software, but I'm wondering if there's any reason why it keeps doing failing to start up, and how I can prevent it? The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite that runs on Windows 7.
2 Answers
- Smokies HikerLv 77 years ago
Just because you have one or more anti virus softwares installed, doesn't mean you still can't get a virus when online. If you're not diligent about watching which links you open up, you'll get a virus. It doesn't matter if the anti virus software is a paid subscription or freeware, any of them can miss an occasional virus attack. The last figures I saw claimed that there were on an average of 125,000 new viruses released every day! And it takes a virus only 8 seconds to reach around the globe! So that's why you need to be careful when you open any link at all. I know a guy who works on computers, and he told me that he can completely clear a person's computer of dozens of viruses that are affecting the Windows Registry for a person, and three days later they're back again with more virus problems. He told me the porn web sites make him lots of money clearing other people's hard drives.
- 7 years ago
Windows cannot load some files correctly and that is why is failing.If you've installed some software that changed some system settings that could be the problem.Since the laptop is new I would not say that is hard disk problem,but it could be.
I would suggest to do fresh install of new os.
