[1stPickPCHelp] Re: Help needed
- From: "Glenn Lloyd" <argeedblu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <1stpickpchelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:00:15 -0500
One possibility: How long has it been since you de-fragmented your disk.
If it has been some time then I would suggest you start by doing a disk
defragmention. With a badly fragmented disk, it may take several hours
to run. Just be patient and let run to its conclusion. You can avoid a
fragmentation problem in the future by doing a defrag once a week. When
done regularly and frequently defrag doesn't take long at all.
Glenn Lloyd
www.rgservices.ca
www.geac.com/trainu
-----Original Message-----
From: 1stpickpchelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:1stpickpchelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Needle
Sent: November 10, 2002 3:50 PM
To: 1stpickpchelp
Subject: [1stPickPCHelp] Help needed
Hello all. I wonder if someone here can give me some guidance.
Over the last few weeks, my computer has been behaving badly. At first
it was just
a slight annoyance; now it's a major pain in the butt. When first
starting the
computer, everything goes well. Then, when I attempt to do anything
from the
desktop -- download e-mail, even move an icon from a subfolder to the
desktop,
which is what I did first thing this morning -- the disk spins forever
and ever, the
system freezes up, and finally releases the system so I can continue.
This morning, the delay was the longest ever -- 50 minutes! The disk
access light
just flickered and burned, and no mouse movements or keystrokes did a
darned
thing. After 50 minutes, the system finally freed up and I was able to
continue.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I thought maybe the disk
drive was
dying, but this only happens once, just after I've started the PC. For
the rest of the
day, it behaves fine.
I'm running Win98.
Thanks!
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