This Black Box Thingy Is Getting On My Proberbials, Anyway To Shove It To One Side

[emmie]

or dispense altogether, its lasting longer and longer and covers half my page.
sorry to whinge, especially as its a free site.

[emmie]

buenchico,
not that pc literate, need someone to go through it with me, in case i cock it up.

[Buenchico]

Just try it anyway.

You computer won't explode, I promise!
http://tinyurl.com/hklq8d6

;-)

[emmie]

chris
the blue line is three quarters up the graph, not sure this is understandable.

[Buenchico]

Hmmmm.

That's possibly a little high (but it depends upon how much memory your laptop has got). Which antivirus program are you using? (The reason I ask is that some are prone to getting stuck in a loop when they try to update. That results in everything on your computer getting slowed down considerably).

[emmie]

kaspersky if that is what you mean.

[tamborine]

I would delete kaspersky and download avg free antivirus, as its less obtrusive to your online activity

http://www.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

[Buenchico]

^^^ I too would be concerned that Kaspersky might be slowing things down. (It used to have a good reputation but I've read several posts recently about it causing problems). However, unlike Tamborine, I wouldn't recommend AVG. (It's another one which used to be good but is now known to slow computers to a crawl). Avast is currently the most popular anti-virus solution around here:
https://www.avast.com/en-gb/index

Try disabling the web anti-virus component of Kaspersky temporarily and trying a post here to see if the black box problem disappears:
https://support.kaspersky.co.uk/11236#block1