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Several computer problem?

May 18, 2017 5:17AM PDT

Hello, I have some weird slow down and freeze, sometimes I can hear a "Beep" and some kind of drive speed up suddenly (and most of the times followed by a computer freeze of couple of seconds), and sometimes its just speed up (for no reason).
Recently I formatted my hard drive and installed windows 10, and I feel like some file just basically disappear, some feature doesn't work
- can't paste text (using kb shortcut or mouse submenu
- can't seem to install some program (windows installer bug)
- some dll file just either not works anymore or disappear
Some is my hard drive (or anything else) broken? My hunch is that my primary hard drive is dying (quite old, almost 10 years old)
and maybe mix with so kind of viruses that breaks dll?
Thank

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A few issues.
May 18, 2017 7:03AM PDT

Yes it could be hardware but given what you wrote, Windows might be installed but you wrote nothing about the post Windows install work. Drivers, etc.

There are crack versions of the OS that do what you listed so for that the fix is to get a real version.

Beyond that, you need to tell more. The copy/paste issue is not caused by the HDD. It's likely a cracked app or OS issue. Tell all so folk can help.

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hmm?
May 18, 2017 7:42AM PDT

what kind of info you need?
I barely have anything installed, I havent done much around drivers beside my gfx card, most of the rest has been done automatically by windows (like sound or screen, which don't need much else)
I am more asking for the freeze problem than the file disappearing, maybe I have a bug with the pirated os

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So the OS is pirated. We know that those versions
May 18, 2017 7:54AM PDT

Have very strange issues that are only solved by getting the real deal or installing another OS like Linux.

Looks like case closed!

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what?
May 18, 2017 8:14AM PDT

what about the hardware issues? I don't think it has anything to do with the whatever OS I have (I had those issues before with a window 7 OEM installation)

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That!
May 18, 2017 8:21AM PDT

Let's go with it worked with W7. Use that. Go with what works.

-> As to what you think, I deal with hundreds of PCs a year and a lot of what you noted were Pirate Crack OS issues. You can think what you want here.

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what? again
May 18, 2017 8:24AM PDT

It didn't worked with 7, I had the same hardware issues with it, the beep, freeze and slow down

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Start with
May 18, 2017 8:48AM PDT
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bleh
May 18, 2017 9:03AM PDT

this sucks, I can't even install speccy Sad
maybe I can try to give the info myself for the most part?
I really think I need to reinstall another window with this bug Sad

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Speccy
May 18, 2017 5:12PM PDT

You don't install speccy, just download and run it.

Were you having all these problems before the install of w10?

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Here's the thing.
May 18, 2017 9:10AM PDT

A cracked OS means that no one can really help and be sure that it's the machine or the OS.

That's why my first step on such machines is to get a good OS in there. After that I consider repairing the PC.