Does your computer need a tune-up? -GIVEAWAY!

Posted by Dawniemom on December 2, 2008

Hi there! welcome back - have you entered my latest giveaways?

Unless it’s brand new out of the box, it probably does. With so many spyware, virii and various other malicious attacks that our computers combat on a daily basis, it would be a small miracle if your computer was able to stay safe through it all. Then add in your internet browsing, podcast listening, game playing and you have a veritable mess. It’s a crash just waiting to happen.

Norton by Symantec has created one elegant solution. Norton Premium Services allows Norton experts to connect with you one-on-one, listen to the problems your encountering, and then directly access your computer via the Internet so they can run diagnostic tests and fix the problems while you sit back and watch. In addition to making your PC run like new, they can also help with killing viruses, eliminating spyware, and installing Norton software, just to name a few.

You do all of this without your computer having to be unplugged, carried to the car, carried into the computer store – fixed by them (sometimes) – then carried back to the car, back into the house, re-plugging everything back in, and keeping your fingers crossed that nothing happened to it in the meantime.

Because you stay on the phone with them the whole time, they can also explain AND show you how to do some preventative maintenance on your computer so that you can keep it running smoothly. The technician will show you how to do things – not just do things for you, nor talk over your head. This is all done for you through the internet connection – and all for just $69.99. (It would also make a great gift for someone!)

and guess what!?

I have THREE free Norton PC Tune-Up Services to give away! All you have to do is leave a comment telling me the problems you’re having with your computer.

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Just leave a comment indicating each way you’re entering.

I’m easy like that

I will draw 3 random winners from all qualified entries next Friday, December 12th!

I will allow Canadian (and US) entries for this one, since it’s not a big package

Special thanks to MomCentral for this awesome opportunity.

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Kristy (1 comments.) said,

I have two laptops and I can’t use one of them because it is sooo slow! I would love to win this…in fact…I NEED this!
jjean said,

My pc needs a tune-up–desperately! Not only does it sound like a single engine aircraft when it is running, it is slow and probably bogged down with things I can’t figure out how to remove. I would love the Norton Tune-up. Thank you!
Tiffini said,

SLOW!!! I am sure that I have lots of unwanted “extras” that should be destroyed.
Tracy (1 comments.) said,

Boy, howdy, do I need a tune-up. My computer crashed this summer, and once we got it back up and running, it’s just sort of limping along. I earn my living with the computer, but can’t afford to buy a new computer right now, so I need help!
Thanks!
Karla Meachem (2 comments.) said,

I would love to win this tune-up, as I am quite disappointed with Norton right now. This would make up for the disappointing service that I received recently…which I am still working at resolving. This would be an added bonus! Thanx for the entry!
Karla Meachem (2 comments.) said,

Just subscribed to your rss feed…problems with my computer included a virus…
Sherry B. said,

I think my computer needs a tuneup worse than any one else’s that I know of! A few months ago, I switched internet providers and went with a little known company that supposedly offered hi-speed internet at a much lower price than I had been paying. My computer, which is relatively new, suddenly pulled in myriad viruses from this service and finally crashed completely. Their tech support offered no help and blamed my computer. Finally, they actually suggested that I call a well-known retailer (who had nothing whatsoever to do with my computer) and ask if THEIR tech support could help me! Talk about passing the buck! Not having the money available to put the comp in the shop, we then hooked up my son’s computer and it was fine for a couple of days. Then the same thing happened with his! Called again, same story! Finally, my son pulled my computer down, cleaned the hard-drive, and did a complete reinstallation on it. It now runs part of the time, with a lot of problems, but at least I can spend a (very) little time online. With our old service, we had been online for many years and never had any problems with any of our computers! Now, this company has went to an all-automated phone system, and I can’t even find a way to dicontinue my service with them; we have to pay the bill because our telephone is also through them. My husband has recently had a stroke, so we have to have a phone in case he gets sick. I feel about as ready to crash as my computer! If I won this package, maybe it would help, at least until I can figure out what else to do. Thank you for having the patience to listen to my rant and for the contest.
Joanne Willey said,

I could sure use this!!
Carol said,

My computer is like Molasses. Slow! Help. Pick me!
Kelly Jones said,

my problems are numerous with my desktop. the most aggrivating one is that it runs slow as molasses. there are times i want to throw it out the window. i have no patience anymore. i can’t afford to take it to get it fixed, get a software program to get it fixed and/or can’t afford to buy a new one. i have it shut off and go to the library and use one of theirs.
ron said,

works slower and s l o w e r and s l o w e r
Vergie said,

need more memory
s said,

could use this mrs.mommyyatgmaildotcom
Stacie said,

Sometimes a window will keep opening and won’t stop and I have to pull the power cord to stop the computer. My computer has some serious issues!
Lisa said,

My computer runs very slow.
joy said,

My Computer is Extremely slow and it takes Forever to get online and I have dsl this will help a lot.
rebecca snodgrass said,

My computer is getting slow these days. I think this would really help me out.
Angela J said,

This would be handy
Adrienne Gordon said,

can’t run chkdsk
ky2here said,

Well, I had to restart when I was logging on now. Does that count? LOL
joanne said,

Great prize. My computer runs so much slower than it used to and I’m clueless.
Rita A. said,

My internet Explorer keeps freezing up. Then I have to open a new window and start all over. Very frustrating.
susan varney said,

i don’t have a problem per say but contest sites like the celebrity cafe and womans day are terribly slow and frustrating sites
Andrea Pacia said,

It needs a boost!!
christopher h said,

my computer has been running slower and slower
Lorraine said,

PC is clogged up, clogged down, clogged etc.
Toby said,

I’ll be brief: slooooowwww…….
Albert said,

Its very sluggish
margaret herrin said,

My current problem is with the computer hardware. The ppowerboard on my monitor has gone bad AGAIN.
Leann S said,

My PC is slow thinks to my kids who link to everything.
Jacqueline Strawder said,

My PC is slower than snail mail…..thanks to my granddaughter who tries to link to every horse site in the world! I really NEED to win this!
Linda Chaput said,

I got high speed and yet my computer’s slow.
Shannon Baas said,

Its running very slowly.
djp said,

problem with my computer is…its 8 yrs old or older, i would love a more up to date one
Dan L said,

Several days ago I was downloading a game from a website I play at everyday before I head to class every other day, but anyways i download it and BAM!!!@!@!@!@!@ My pc crash on me and when I booted my pc back up everything didn’t boot up right so I had to start up explorer.exe through task manager. Then everything is kind of glitching up on me like the start menu take forever to load and sometimes it shows up different columns when I didn’t have that program selected.
Tara said,

It takes forever for my computer to start up.
Joanna said,

My computer is old and slow.
Meredith S. said,

My laptop just stops opening new links periodically. I have to shut it down, then it is okay for a while.
Carol Lawrence said,

I’m running out of memory and every trick I know to clear space isn’t enough.
Valerie Furr said,

My computer freezes up for about a minute on certain sites aggravating.
Susan C (2 comments.) said,

My computer has been so slow, I can’t afford a new computer right now, so I would love some info on how to speed it up!
Vergie said,

o yes will use
Susie Stewart said,

Slow, slower , slowest!
david basile said,

i try to clean up with the free stuff
but there is still more garbage back there
Denyse said,

It’s SLOW!
Richard Hansen said,

Raceing pages and freeze-ups.
Connie P said,

I got my PC seconhand from a friend & I need a lot of useless junk cleared out.
Jason said,

My computer freezes up almost every time I use it.
Mike Weisberg (1 comments.) said,

slow
Erin Walsh said,

My computer seems to get slower each day and I have a ton of old useless programs that I would love to get rid of but I get error messages when I try to remove them the normal way. Would love a chance to try this.
Alexandria Levan (1 comments.) said,

My computer has been very slow and freezing up.
veronica sandberg said,

It recently crashed and want to make sure that doesn’t happen again
bina edwards said,

yeah we def need this for all the stuff we have here
paul haddock said,

Please count me in , need this badly
Kathy Scott said,

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Christina G. said,

I can’t think of a specific problem I’m having with my computer, but it runs slower than I’d like. This should help!
Christina G. said,

I posted on my blog: http://gouldgalore.blogspot.com/2008/12/dawniemom-reviews-norton-giveaway.html
Christina G. said,

I have your button: http://gouldgalore.blogspot.com/
Christina G. said,

I’m a subscriber.
Karin said,

My computer is running very slowly. It is extremely irritating – it used to be so fast when I got it.
Terri D said,

My computer is running R-E-A-L-L-Y slow.
Lisa L. said,

Just did battle a couple times with malware and spyware.
They kicked my comps butt but I fought back. Need all the help I can get with this computer and the viruses that are always out there.
Marina N said,

I can really use this
Debbie B said,

my laptop is running very slowly lately!
David Bertolo said,

I have Norton 360 with 10 GB of storage so I am not having problems with my computer but please still enter me so I can give this as a gift.
KD Munoz said,

The problem I have- is my teenagers see bright lights & flashing things saying, “click here” so they do. How was I supposed to know the ONE thing they were told to do AND actually do, is the ONE thing that will add viruses, open me to hackers & basically put our life out of business. However, I now understand if I expect my teen to do what I want- I just need to put up something that flashes online with the instruction!
J Chaborek said,

I download a lot of stuff & do not have updated virus protection currently (will have it after Christmas though!). I just lost all my info on my new laptop to a virus. I download a lot & I have a fear I might have a few trojans (or even a hundred). Surprisingly enough it does run slow at times (mainly in IE). Take care!
beth shepherd said,

Thank you. My computer seems to shut down on its own and seems to be slow at times.
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
Gene Garvin said,

Everything just takes too long to execute when you click on a program. I have 4 gb of ram, that should not happer
Clifton Wade said,

My wonderful but disabled wife of more than 38 years is having alot of problems with her computer that she uses to increase her muscles, memory, and co-ordination. This would be such a great gift for her. Thank you for this great contest and prize!
Leslie D. said,

We just installed the max amount of memory that is possible on our computer, and we still have problems. It seems like the flash on many websites causes problems. Our desktop still freezes and locks up, and we have to do a hard shutdown. It gets really old when you are trying to do work on the computer and it freezes up. I think everyone has these problems! Oh Bother! Thank you very much.
JD said,

I have a Dell laptop that is a couple of years old. I don’t know how to improve it’s speed and capacity. I would love to win this!
Joseph Stowell said,

Is it just me or does it take an eternity for webpages to load? I don’t know if it’s because of programs I’ve downloaded or because of the periodic Microsoft updates, but my computer seems to get slower and slower every month. Perhaps this is all a conspiracy–keep increasing the demands of the programs and soon you will have to buy a new computer.
Christie said,

The problems? Well, I sometimes fall asleep waiting for a page to load. Yawn.
R Hicks said,

I think this heap of wires needs a tuneup. Running slowly lately!

ardy22 at earthlink.net
Lori Downs said,

My computer keeps locking up, I have ran ad aware [rogram but still hasnt helped, maybe this would help!
Janice Wright said,

Oh boy do I really need this. My computer is very slow. Although I keep running a program that gets rid of malware & adware, my computer is still running slow, even when I run this program every hour or so. I’m sure there are other problems I don’t know about.
Kobi Hendrix (1 comments.) said,

My computer is extremely slow and programs freeze all the time.
John said,

Spyware is such a pain! It keeps picking it up everywhere, I have to constantly remove them.
Vickie said,

I have a Dell, enough said
Kayce C said,

I need some help with my computer’s video settings.
Joseph Perozzi said,

My computer has had so much down-time of late,it’s become nothing more than my desk’s paperweight;if you will restore its functions with Norton,maybe I’ll get to do somethin’ importan’!
Erma said,

My computer freezes up and is slow.
Tesa S. said,

My PC is around 6 years old – that’s like 87 in human years! I believe it’s on its last wobbly legs. I have to get my daughter to fix it every time I get a virus or something slows me down. She says I need more memory. Tune-up couldn’t hurt!
Pauline M said,

So far my laptop is doing OK, but my desktop has lots of problems. It has a really hard time loading sites with flash, (this is really tought on my son since he loves Club Penguin), and crashed about every 40 minutes or 3-4 pages. Very frustrating!
Lance Pearson said,

My computer gets spyware all the time, I have to reboot the system too often.
Jennifer hedden said,

My computer had problems with internet explore freezing up alot
Dawn Horns said,

Need to restart it because it freezes.
Jennifer M said,

It’s slow and all the programs are arguing with each other!
Debra F said,

My laptop freezes sometimes, but more problematic is that sometimes it just shuts itself off!
Carol Mathesen said,

How do I count the ways? I bought my computer at a garage sale and for the price it does a pretty good job. There are some downloads it won’t do, I can’t get it to open some e mails and in general it just acts wonky. Could sure use a tune-up.
hazel hunt said,

works slower and s l o w e r and s l o w e r
Steve Scott said,

My wife needs a new computer but we can’t afford it. Maybe this could see us thru until we can afford one.
Trisha said,

our kids computer wont go online, we think it was a trojan and we have to do a system restore…..i think@
Jaye said,

Haha! I have LOTS of problems. My desktop stopped working a while ago. Just stopped. It’ll boot up just fine but when it finally gets to Windows it’ll just freeze up. It has all of my documents for the last 5 years still on it and I can’t get it off! It would be great to get it working again without spending an arm and a leg!
Teresa C said,

My computer has started slowing down and I cannot find the problem. I would hope this would help.

Thanks.
wendy wallach said,

My computer makes a whirring noise every now and again and also WHOOSH! noises…I have no clue but wouldlove to get rid of them so it would speed up.!!
Geoff K said,

Like others, my computer has been running slower and slower — I can no longer run multiple applications at the same time, my browser locks up, and at least twice in the last year I lost files when they became corrupt for no apparent reason. I would love the chance to win this product to see if it can help. Thanks!
Chrysa (7 comments.) said,

My PC is running realllllly slow. I think this would help!
Chrysa (7 comments.) said,

I’m also subscribed to your RSS feed!
kathy pease said,

my computer is slow as a tortoise riding on a snail..lol
Dan said,

Its slow. I wish it were faster.
D Johnson said,

Sister
Sandra said,

My laptop is driving me crazy! I will plugging along surfing the web , when suddenly I lose all my screens and I end up with just the main start-up screen. I can’t reenter the internet. I have to restart my computer! I can’t figure it out. I would love to have the PC tuneup! Thanks!
John Deal said,

I would like this for my sister. Her PC is getting very slow and probably has a lot of useless junk in it.
Laura G said,

my computer is super slow
Elizabeth Ray said,

Everything keeps getting slower, and every once in a while, jamb to a halt, so I have to reboot. Also, the computer will no longer read memory card form my digital camera, which it USED to do! Sounds like I need the Tuneup!
claire cline said,

My computer is so slow you can nap between pages – and it crashes when you are online often. Help!
Melinda L Smith said,

My computer shuts down and restarts.
Lawrence Davis said,

Slow, randomly chsmges sittings, when incerting or adding text censor jumps to a different location and places imput there or deletes all, had a blue screen error and had to reload OS as a second system but cannot use any MSN preloaded programes – can open first but can only use preloaded games.
Lawrence Davis said,

Slow, randomly changes sittings, when inserting or adding text censor jumps to a different location and places input there or deletes all, had a blue screen error and had to reload OS as a second system but cannot use any MSN preloaded programs – can open first but can only use preloaded games.
Tamara Burks said,

Mine is old and cranky and has serious trouble everytime I run across a page that requires flash 9.
Kate said,

My computer started out fast and now is so slow!! I haven’t had a ‘tuneup’ in a while, either!
chris said,

slow startup
Angel said,

my computer has viruses and it’s slooooow
Lily Kwan said,

My computer runs sluggishly.
Buddy Garret said,

My computer freezez up. It won’t turn off. It jumps back and forth from link to link. It connects so slow that I can’t connect to some web sites. It’s a gamble whether or not My connection is going to go through.
Janet said,

My computer runs slow.
Marc said,

I’m told I have something like a virus that has embedded itself in my computer, and it’s very dangerous. Of course, you can tell I’m not a computer expert.
Donna K said,

We can’t get the webkins site to work. Mykids are having a fit!
Donna K said,

I am a subscriber.
Donna K said,

I put your button on my blog.