[Ham-Computers] not convinced this is a virus...final

[DGB]

After being a loyal Norton's user since their beginning, I found going with
Ontrack's Fixit Utilities solved many of the problems I was having with
Win98SE. I went thru the gammet of using the same freeware/share utilities
that your using and they were an improvement over Norton's.

The biggest improvement was when I went to Windows 2000, seldom a crash.

Still have Win 2k on the xyl's computer, and XP Pro on mine. Her's is a
200mhz and mine is a 550mhz. No crashes to deal with in my life anymore, at
least computer-wise! :-)


73 de W9YQ

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From: "refmon" <monitor@referencevideo.com>
To: <ham-computers@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:19 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] not convinced this is a virus...final


Hi,

I wanted to thank everyone on the list overall;  the knowlege base is quite
impressive.  Those of you who responded actually each contributed a piece to
the end solution.  The main tricks I learned here were:

1)  in msdos.sys, set autoscan to zero, which stops the incesseant scandisk
interruptions, allowing freedom to deal with the underlying problem.
General advice was that this shut-off be temporary and set back to 1 once
the problems are cleared.  Use Norton utilities et al as accessories rather
than replacements.

2)  Download and hold on dearly to "regclean"...run regclean, fix problems,
reboot, run regclean, fix problems, etc until regclean announces no problems
found.  My registries were cleaned up rather quickly, but I was impressed
that the "weed-out" files were on the order of 42K, then 1K, then cleaned at
zero-K.  The PC's boot incredibly faster and are, of all things, far more
stable right from the start.  I think there may be a few general config
issues that I will keep as my personal problems and deal with with what I've
learned from you all.

As an aside, this did not happen to me, but there is a warning that regclean
may inadvertantly stop good-guy operations, so be sure to save the weed-out
file.  You can undo by double clicking the weedout file.

3)  Norton 2002 Utilities Disk Doctor and registry optimizer seemed to help
a lot...but only as accessories.  For some reason my scandisk was jammed on,
but never actually fixed anything.  Once scandisk was turned off, NDD was
able to fix several species of problems with FAT, Directory entries, and
corrupt files.  But scandisk was still jammed on.  Only after the full-Monty
regclean job did scandisk begin to work properly.

So, while I don't know precisely what the problem was, I have learned to fix
this set of symptoms.

One interesting tip that did not seem to be the issue in this case, but
certainly is worth knowing:  While dealers and manuafacturers say the 133
MHz memory modules will auto-sense a 100MHz buss (and that certainly seems
true in my case), there may be intermittent BSOD and/or lockups, etc you are
experiencing.  In some cases, word has it that putting real 100MHz memory on
a 100MHz buss eliminates the problem.  I tried this but it did not help in
this case.  In any case, I have bought the 133 MHz memory with an eye toward
eventual board and CPU upgrades, but of course one must ensure the interim
arrangement actually works.

Again, thanks to all.

John Collins
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