[TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question

[Darrell]

First in Windows Explorer go to C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp and
see what is in the startup file. You can right drag any thing that you do
not recognize to the desktop and when asked select "Move". If you find that
you need any thing that you have moved, you can move it back the same way.
Defrag, restart the computer in DOS mode and then type DEFRAG.
Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen McGehee" <irony at epowerc.net>
To: "The Forge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:06 AM
Subject: [TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question


> 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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