Recent content by paulmcrae100

Install CCleaner free and clean up, uninstall everything that you don't need. Go into update, make sure all the updates go through and finish. Make sure you have no drives/directories Indexed. Using cleaner, check what is loaded on startup, delete Adobe updater, Sticky notes and all that memory...

Your laptop may support both 2.4 and 5GHz, 5 GHz is good but the range on older routers or laptops can be 'the desk'! Make sure you are connecting using 2.4. The above postings will help, if not, take laptop to a mates house and use his WiFi to find out what the issue is and invite him over to...

In a word: No. But.. what was the loop doing and what language was it written in? If it was renaming, moving, deleting files, yes of course it could crash the system, don't be too surprised if the system won't reboot! If he was trying his hand at systems programming in assembler, then anything...