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Recently we bought a new webcam and downloaded skype onto our home computer so DF can talk to his mom over in Costa Rica. Well ever since then my computer is not responding to anything. It takes an hour for it to respond to one click and even then when it does try to respond it will end up freezing. I can't do anything on it right now...
Does anybody have any suggest on what to do?
I really don't want to have to take to get serviced but if that's my only option around how much would that cost?
I'm really worried because stupid me hasn't backed up any of our pictures.
Yeah, I think that you had a working system before Webcam+skype. So first unplug webcam and see if it gets better. If not, uninstall skype. If it gets better after one of these, you will know which one is causing the problem.
Also, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del, select Task Manager and look for any process that has it's CPU column at 100. That process is what is causing the problem.
If you can get that process we can probably get a better idea what is causing the problem.
Go to internet properties, programs tab, then manage add-ons tab, and disable any skype add-ons, they are known for causing this issue, skype should still work after you do this.
Ok... it turns out it was Skype that was messing up my computer. I have uninstalled Skype and my computer works much better now but...
As I was trying to clean out my computer it seems I might have deleted my audio driver because my computer is no longer reconizing that I have my speakers hooked up. I have contacted emachine support and they briefly explained that my audio driver isn't available for download using my computer model but that I would have to look for the audio driver compatible for my motherboard. That was all they were able to tell me since my computer is no longer under warranty. I have searched and searched and haven't been able to come out with a good download.
Can somebody please help...
I have emachine W3115 Windows xp media center, motherboard FIC K8MC51G...
Did you actually check their website rather than taking their word that you couldn't get drivers? I just looked and they have a Realtek audio driver available for your system. XP Media Center is a subset of XP pro, so the XP Pro driver should work.
Yup... I downloaded that and it did nothing :-(
My computer still doesn't recognize my speakers.
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