Computers...Grrrrr!!

[Janet]

I may have to take my computer in to be looked at. It takes forever to shutdown and to come back up. Honestly a good 5-7 minutes at least. Plus every once in awhile a box comes up and says that I'm out of virtual memory and that windows is making some or something like that.

Then there are times that I can hear the computer running and the curser will lock up for awhile...I think it's the webroot program I have for spyware, but not sure.

I've heard that every so often a person should completely reformat their computer...is that true? If I did that, I would have to do all the patches for Windows XP again, plus others that right now just can't remember.

It might just be easier to let someone else do it and pay to have it done...I just don't know what the problems are. It still runs and all and isnt' slow, only at start up and shut down.

I hope when I decide to take it in, that they won't have to keep it very long. That would totally suck being without my computer!