Issues with my Equium A60-192

I've had my Toshiba for over 2 years,

Here is a list of my problems and there are so so many might save some time would be great!

1 overheating - I sent to PC Mastercare 3 times and all they do is clean the fan and the heat sink. As many people have said about the thermal paste I think it is a problem that requires urgent attention.
Although the problem is, when I recover the computer is fine for about 6 months and then it starts again!

2. the recovery disc. Being an Amature-semi-professional Windows understanding, there are a few directories that do NOT, for example delete microsoft frontpage (Attention to the record all lowercase) I think that there is some kind of hidden virus that is at fault. Although it is a recovery disk, you wonder if this is something you should look at. However, this isn't a nice feeling to know that you can not delete a single file (which does nothing)

3. as many people have said about Windows just suddening not allowing start because some files are not present! This is yesterday for me, and with a little persistence, I managed to back up all my files and retrieved using the doubtful recovery disk.

And the final point!

4. the computer does not seem to lose a huge amount of processing power, even if it is a 2.5 Ghz! I wonder if I need to add more RAM or there is an underlying problem. I just picked up the computer and it works fine!

If you could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

PS my laptop was a series of laptop that were shipped with the wrong BIOS. I've updated, but I wonder if it exceeds the BIOS that is defective!

Bravo guys! (and girls)

HI Chris,

Sorry to hear about your problems, but here are some tips to get on with: -.

1. overheating. It is a very common on laptops problem and if your search these forums you'll see discussed many times. The general rule is to ensure that dust and debris is reduced to a minimum in the radiator of CPU. Given that the cooling air is always being drawn in through the gills of contribution of background, it is obvious that dust accumulates. I clean my SA30 using hose of a vacuum cleaner to fear that once a month and that let it run fine without any problem of overheating. You'd be amazed how much dust crosses a few months.

2 recovery discs. It is very unlikely that you have a virus "hidden". The recovery disks typically contain an image "Ghost" of a default operating system will contain some surprising elements. The 'frontpage' file is one of these elements. It is part of the base build XP but is not filled if will show just like an empty folder (usually contains a "version" file, which is also empty. It is normal.

3 Windows starts do not. In general, if Windows has this kind of problem there are two culprits, either a rogue application (or virus) has damaged or written too part of the OS or the hard drive has experienced some kind of problem (impact or vibration for example). I've had just that kind of behavior with my own laptop and it generally preceded by a hard disk failure. I suggest that you run CHKDSK on the drive to check for bad sectors.

4. the current treatment. When the unit is newly installed from media of recovery it will work generally quite well, but you use the portable computer the contents of the disc will become more fragmented especially if you add other applications, or do a lot of browsing on the internet. I would recommend that you regularly run utilities cleaning/Desk (at least once a week) Disk Defragmenter to keep things smooth. I recommend also to download and install the malicious utilities (such as Lavasoft Adaware, Spybot and Windows Defender from Microsoft). Run those weeklies as well to make sure that the bad guys are not allowed to infect your system. Extra RAM will also help, but the benefits will be seen most noticeably if you are running heavy applications (such as games or video editors) or if you open several applications at the same time.

Hope the above is helpful.

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