-=PCTechTalk=- Re: PrtScn-Memory-Burning update

Sammi,
    Any joy you experience is magnified many times over by the time it 
reaches us.  It's extremely disappointing when repair attempts don't go as 
well as we hope, but it's pure joy when they do.  At this point, I don't 
even care which tip helped you get your system back (although I now highly 
suspect the Temp folder caused most of it).  I only care that things seem to 
be working like they should.  If that chooses to continue, I'm happy that 
you have learned as much as you have and that your system will now get the 
housecleaning that you're promising here.        ;0}

    By the way, there's no such thing as a computer jinx.  Computers don't 
need us to say or do anything to make them act up.      lol

Peace,
G

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sammi" <sammi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 1:53 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- PrtScn-Memory-Burning update


> Hi,
>
> Just a note to let you know that so far after doing all of the suggested
> 'fixes' for my problems, last night and even so far this morning...I am
> running with both memory sticks installed. Everything that I have tried is
> working well! PrtScn works, and so far no partially displayed windows, no
> phantom windows and so forth. AND, last night I was moving, copying,
> deleting a huge amount of files, and really using this machine...just 
> before
> I shut down I did one last screenshot. It worked flawlessly!
>
> I wonder if part of the reason that things seemed to work after removing 
> one
> stick was because I had to shut down, pull the stick and then reboot. With
> every one of those reboots, Windows did its best to clean up after me. So 
> it
> would work for awhile, but if I continued to run with only one stick
> installed, it would degrade over a few hours. I had thought that was 
> because
> I had the wrong stick installed.
>
> It may also be, that after updating a few things, that all of these fixes
> helped, along with the Temp files dump.
>
> But, I do think that may have been a big part of my problem. Before I 
> dumped
> them, I took a look at some of the dates...I am ashamed to admit that some
> of them went back over 2 years ago, close to the time I got this pc! I was
> much more careful in W98 since it crashed if you looked at it wrong. XP 
> has
> run so smoothly for the most part, that I became complacent about cleaning
> out my files and backing them up.
>
> When I talk about organizing, I thought that I had a pretty good set up 
> for
> my files, but further examination shows that I was insane, blind and plumb
> silly. The items that I wish to back up run into Gigs not MBs. I heartily
> recommend to myself that as a pack rat, I need to review my storage policy
> more often.
> Had I not had these problems, I would still be happily stuffing things 
> into
> the wrong places and may very well have run into a failure from which I
> would be unable to recover these files.  I have learned a lot from this
> group!
>
> I have not tried burning any files yet, but last night I did as Gman
> suggested, and set my EZC6 to test only and not record. It did find 
> several
> things that it did not like. Just like you said, the files were 'buried' 
> too
> deep. I have set about organizing my files that I wish to burn radically. 
> I
> also found zip files that were damaged or empty, duplicate files and other
> bad files. I'll be watching my future downloads a lot more carefully.
>
> I hope that I have not jinxed myself by reporting this! If not, I'll be
> happily re-organizing the files that I wish to burn. I am relearning how 
> to
> use my burning program and discovering functions that I didn't even know
> existed in it.
>
> Got some joy back!
> Sammi 


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