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Thanks man, didn't think of this, Ill do that now.

Hey guys, I've been google-ing around for the past couple of days for my recent problem with Snapchat. I updated it 2-3 days ago, and now when I take a video, it gets really laggy, and I don't know why. I haven't done anything else with my phone, everything is the exact same before and after I updated it, and its really annoying since I normally take dank vids and send them to friends. I've tried some dev options, didn't work, reinstalling the app didn't work, opening my phone is safe mode/bios (not 100% sure what its called) and nothing. The only thing I have on my phone, are (the stupid cant-uninstall-default apps), Facebook, Youtube, steam etc, and some photos, and heaps of music, but like I said before, everything was 100% the same before and after I updated Snapchat. Any help would be great! Thanks. btw not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but hope you guys can help me anyway. EDIT: I have a samsung galaxy S3 for those who cant read the title.

@Towelie Depends what your budget is, at this stage you're basically buying a new pc, if you want, I can put something together for you?

@MLG Doge @dragoon20005 @TechSam @Pakonater @guimauve522 and anyone I missed; I have good news, I have got my parents' files from their harddrive, so its all good now. I'm going to buy them a new internal AND external harddrive for backup just in case this happens again Thank you for all your help

@TechSam Yeah thanks for that, Ill take that into consideration. If I can get everything into working order again I'm going to buy my parents' a external HDD for photos (which are really important to them) and other stuff that they really care about, and Ill tell them to do it on cloud. Thanks.

@TechSam Yeah I'h hoping for it do be a "dying" dive as I don't want it dead yet as I need to get my parents' files off first, then it can die! Thanks for the response. I have an old drive I can use a main drive with good ol XP so Ill use that as my main drive, and use the "infected" drive as my secondary just to get the files off, and even if the files are "infected" Ill scan the crap out of it until I can get rid of it.

@TDP_Equinox I cant boot into Windows anymore which really sucks, otherwise I would of done what you said. Since nothing is working, I'll just take the harddrive out and put it in my desktop and see if it still has all the files. Hoping it does. Thanks

@Towelie If you're planning on upgrading to an i5 and a 970, I would also upgrade your power supply to a 650w should be fine, or if you want to be "really safe" get a 700w. Any from Corsair or Be Quiet! should do. Your case can JUST hold the EVGA 970 ACX 2.0. GPU: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Super-Clocked-Graphics/dp/B00NVODXR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428561209&sr=8-1&keywords=EVGA+GeForce+GTX+970+Super+Clocked+ACX+2.0+4GB+GDDR5+Graphics+Card PSU: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-80PLUS-Gold-Certified-Power-Supply/dp/B00EB7UIRS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428561278&sr=8-2&keywords=650w+corsair

@guimauve522 I've gone and deleted with program and features all the stuff my parents didn't need, and I scanned about 100+ times and nothing was found. I've had to transfer some files from my pc to my parents and my pc is fine. Thanks though, Ill see what I can do with this. @TDP_Equinox Its funny because ADWcleaner is the program that started all this. Not sure why but thats the program that my mum downloaded and thats when it started to become really slow. Do either of know if I could I just simply put my parents hdd in my pc(with another a backup drive so my "real" pc doesn't get messed) and extract most of the important files there? If there is a virus, I know my harddrive will get affected but its alright Ill just re-install ubuntu, would that work/ be easier for everyone? Could I just do that? I really dont want to pay heaps of money to someone who wrecks it even more if he doesn't know what he is doing, then tells us we have to pay more money for a new pc.

@Towelie Yes, that motherboard would be fine for the i5 and a 970. What case and power supply you have?

@Towelie The i5-4440 is a 1150 socket, which is a completely different socket to AM3+. As zlolslavez said, you'll need to buy a LGA 1150 socket motherboard. As for upgrading to a 970, I'm pretty sure you'll be fine with the i5 (if you upgrade)

@MLG Doge @Pakonater @dragoon20005 Thanks for the help, but I might just take it somewhere, I have no idea what I'm doing, I might break it even more, but thanks for all your help guys. EDIT: I did a scan of the hardware because why not, and it says my CPU has passed, RAM has passed, HDD has passed, BUT the boot path has a warning next to it. Error code BIOHD-3. I might google it and edit here again. Ok so apparently the harddrive is either failed or about to, dont want to take any chances, so I'm going to take it to a shop that can copy all the files over to another harddrive and Ill put it in my old laptop until my parents can afford a new pc. Thanks guys. One more thing, If its about to die, could I just simply put it in my pc and extract most of the important files? If there is a virus, I know my harddrive will get affected but its alright Ill just re-install ubuntu, but would that work/ be easier for everyone?

@Pakonater Ah ok. I am in safe mode and I've been on it for the past 2 days as Windows takes 40-70 minutes to log in. I have uninstalled all the unwanted programs, including all my steam games (I don't use this pc anymore, I have another account with like 80GB+ of music I have yet to moved over). Would buying a new hardrive, installing Windows on it, and then start putting all my parents files on it be worth it? or should I just buy a dock/ back all the files up, then re-install windows? As @dragoon20005 said, I have done nearly 20+ scans with various different anti virus programs, in safe mode and in normal mode (that one time I managed to actually log on) and there have been no threats found.

@dragoon20005 Ok thanks, Ill see if any local stores have any drive docks, I was thinking of hooking it up to my old laptop (has windows Vista) and scanning it there, what programs do you recommend me using for this? I've already tried Malwarebytes and CCleaner. By the way, I put in the password to log on and its been welcoming me for the past 23 minutes haha! EDIT: Would upgrading to Windows 7 pro or 8/8.1 fix anything? Because I know that it has a option that you don't lose any of your files.

@dragoon20005 I was really hoping to avoid that. Is there a way to re-install Windows 7 without losing any files/programs? Or should I just buy an External Harddrive and back everything on it?