[ilikemittens]

I was over at my cousin's house the other day and he told me that his printer stopped working (not printing anything). So I was like OK well let's just reinstall it and see if that helps. So I go back to his computer, turn it on, and it takes FOR-E-VER to boot up. Then when it finally DOES come to the desktop, everything is running super super slow. I go to click the start menu and waited about a minute to see it. No programs would open, no folders, nothing.

So I restarted it and it came up a lot faster and I didn't have to wait forever for the start menu BUT, programs and folders still would not open. At that point I didn't want him to think I broke it (he had left for work) so I wrote him a note telling him what it was doing and then when he got back that night he called and told me he was computerless.

My first thought was a virus. I don't know though. I know he's one of those people that has a ton of junk on his comp that he needs to get rid of. Oh, and the 2 times I booted up there was a pop up at the desktop that said "Error: couldn't run (Something to do with WildTangent).dll" Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? I know when Chem gets here we're gonna go over and he'll format and reinstall windows for him, but I'd like for my cousin to be able to get his pictures, music, and list of programs off of it before. But as of right now it's looking like he can't even open a folder. :\

Any help is appreciated. Hopefully I gave you enough to chew on.