[TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question

[Andrew Vida]

Try running BoostXP.  I Just started using it and fon't have a strong 
opinionon it yet, but it will clean up your disk.  Fragmentation will 
eventually impact perfomrance significantly.

If you don't have ZoneAlarm installed, install it, let it run, and when 
it notifies you that program 'X' is trying to access the internet, click 
on "Allow" but not on "Remember This..." and that way you should be able 
to figure out what program is attempting to dial out in your absence. 
It's a bit crude, but it's free.

Stephen McGehee wrote:
> Actually, two questions:
>     1.  I seem to have something in my machine that Ad-Aware, SpyBot and
> Trend-Micro's housecall cannot root out.  This something causes my IE
> "connect to" window to pop up spontaneously, a lot.  If I'm away from my
> machine for 3 hours or so I will have 3 or 4 of these windows stacked on
> top of each other, requiring me to exit each one.  There does not seem
> to be anything in my control panel or options that will allow me to
> change this and it just started happening recently.  Seems like there is
> some bot in my machine that wants me to go online...
> 
>     2. Disk Defragmenter, when I try to run this feature it never goes
> beyond a flickering 1%, will sit there for an hour doing churning noises
> in my cpu.  If I go into settings and turn off "check disk for errors"
> and run Defrag. by itself, it goes to 8%, displays "drive's contents
> changed, restarting" and goes up to 8%, et cetra...
> 
> Thanks for any input you might have about these problems.
> McGehee
> 
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