[TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question

[magichammer]

FIRST  back up (make copies on CD) anything that is important to you 
right now.....
I can not emphasize this enough. Sounds like you are due for a hd 
re-format. been there a couple times before.
You could try,,, write down all your (Internet, e-mail, server) settings 
and then try updating your IE browser.
Bet that there is a service pack # ???  that you don't have.
That's just what I would do, but I don't know anything about computers.
We do have some real experts on this list, what do they say?
dave m
P.S. I just started using Mozilla Fire Fox browser and Mozilla 
Thunderbird e-mail program.
They are supposed to be more stable and bug resistant than IE and Outlook


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...
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>    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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