My computer is dying.
After one night, a little while ago, I noticed alot of shit not working well. SM was lagging, the GIMP crashed every time I tried to laod it, Firefox froze on occasion and I was getting alot of popups, even when I wasn't online.
Okay, fine. It was time to do a good ol' checkarooski anyways, so I started up Spybot and AdAware, did a disk defragment and clean up, redid the Spybot and AdAware and restarted.
It ran a little better, but FF still froze, SM still sucked, and the GIMP kept crashing. Also I noticed that when I ran AdAware, it searched a folder I had never known to exist: In my FONTS folder of all places. So that explains why the GIMP kept crashing. But what the hell? Why does it say the folder exists? And why does it contain zip folders with movie names, song names, and other bullshit that SHOULDN'T belong in the FONTS folder?
I brought this up with Zak. He says it could be a rootkit. And since I didn't know what that was, he says its something that can hide and cloak itself so it can't be found or even used/modified. Well fuck me gently and call me Carol, this is not good news.
So Zak says give it a good ol' chkdsk. "Zak," I ask, "whats a chkdsk?" And he explained it to me. And so I commenced the chking of the dsking and found out that bad things were happening on my C:\ drive. Things that Windows did not like. Stuff like file systems having problems and trying to be corrected but cannot.
Also, get this: I copied my fonts into a folder on my desktop. Folder size: 30ish megs. Okay fine, not bad, I have a lot of fonts anyways. Not a big deal. Folder size of C:\WINDOWS\Fonts? 3 fucking gigs.
What deuce?
Help me please! Also, if you're going to tell me to do things, please use nice grammar and humor, because I like that. Also mostly because I am NOT computer savvy, I'll need it pretty much idiot proof.
Also, sorry for not posting.