[TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question

[Mike Linn]

At 09:06 AM 1/10/2005, you 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...

It maybe your operating system or virus software trying to call home for 
automatic updates.
If your on dial-up or lost your connection it may be erroring out when it 
cant get to the net.
Check your Windows settings for automatic updates and see it its turned on

>     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...

I used to get this all the time.  Other programs and services write to disk 
and Defrag restarts itself.
Start up the PC in "Safe" mode by rebooting and hitting <F8> repeatedly 
until the Windoze Start menu comes up.

Select Safe Mode and finish the boot. Safe Mode allows you to run the PC 
with a MINIMUM of drivers and such.

Run Scan Disk and then Defrag. When complete reboot the PC as normal.

mike



>Thanks for any input you might have about these problems.
>McGehee



            Mike Linn
      Artist Blacksmith
          McCalla, AL
        AFC Webmaster
http://afc.abana-chapter.com

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