Hi Dorothy, not an easy question to answer. I've had three computers in the last six years. I'll give you the history. In 2000 I bought a Gateway. It was ok in as far as it went, but, although I had two hard disks they were very small ones, each only 20 gb. Also it had many failures over the four years I had it, which, and here I may be opening a can of worms, I think was due to the Gateway software. I then bought a Dell 8400 on ebay from a Dell reseller. Sadly, although new it had been interferred with. It had been configured by Dell as a raid, but one of the hard disks had been removed. It also had a hidden recovery partition. I had to format and reload in order to set things straight. The Dell was a nightmare. It used to go into rebooting cycles. It wasn't till I'd given up on it, having spent £700 on engineers to try to fix it that I found out what the problem had been. It had been massively overclocked. I don't know if that was the only reason, but certainly one of them. I then had my current pc custom built by a company near Watford called RL supplies. I have had one disk failure, but other than for that it's wonderful. The only thing I don't like about it is the case is different to any computer case I've ever come across, and I've never been able to swap out cards. Other than for that it's great. Back on the subject of disks the only thing I haven't mentioned is my external, a Seagate 750 gb free agent. It's performed fine to date, but I haven't had it for long enough to say much more than that.
Hope your day's going well,
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:43 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows update
John am grateful for your answer but I still wonder how many Hardrives youhave got through in the last say six years, George once said he thought they should last 5 years, incidentally speeding up computer. I can tell you theone thing that has certainly speeded up my computer both Desktop and lap top is the new router I got rid off the Edimax Epic router and got a Netgear, it has 2 letters after it and three numbers and Heavens! both Pc'shave zipped along----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:38 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updatehi dorothy, i don't understand. the operating system uses indexes, yes. they tell the operating system where files are and how much space is allocated to them. any scan, be it a defragmentation scan, or a chkdsk, or any otherscan, including those conducted by third party applications refer to thoseindexes. computers have always had them since the year dot. i remember in an earlier email you mentioned that an engineer or someone had referred to indexes whirling round in your computer. of course they're accessed quickly. computers work quickly.if your computer picks up a virus it will be known about by the operatingsystem, and therefore, dependent on the nature of the virus, ie if it was afile it would have been allocated space by the operating system, and wouldbe on a file allocation table, but indexes or file allocatition tables don't spread viruses. different viruses work in different ways. they will go where they're programmed to. they won't spread through your computer, although they may affect different parts of it. john.----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:58 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHI John but if you do a Defrag and you say you do this daily if you hada virus wouldn't it spread through the computer with this indexing business.----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:42 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHi Dorothy, if no bugs get onto your system system restore's fine. If youget a bug though it will go into system restore and you'll never get ridofit. Each time you run system restore it'll be back again. System restoreis, in effect, just a set of configuration settings that tells windows how your system was configured on any particular day. As far as resource hungry applications goes I should think probably either sonar, which is a vertual studio firstly, and secondly, although I'mguessing here, convert x to DVD, which is a program that converts moviesand burns them to dvd. John.----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:51 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHi John, slight change of Topic but you said you do not believe in System restore or restore points why is that please? It has saved my bacon a few times also if you only use Word from the Office suite, which of the programmes on your computer uses the most power, you are not using a Scanner or Ocr so which software is the one greedy for resources. I was interested the voice Daniel does not play up,I only use it in Kurzweil, but is hard to stop it reading non stop so I only use for long documents that it can read through. Thanks for your advice Dorothy----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:47 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHi Alex, you're welcome to mail me anytime. Incidentally, crashing a chkdsk isn't a good idea. Ok, if it froze you didn't have much option, but I would suggest that to make sure all your system files are still ok to run sfc. John.----- Original Message ----- From: "alex thynne" <alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHi Johnthis is very interesting, I had about 19 items in my startup, I had alookat it following your message to Dorothy and I have unchecked a few ofthese. Interestingly I think, jaws was not in there, I don't understand why that is, unless it's something to do with the fact that jaws doesn't take up a window on my machine as I prefer to run it from the system tray so it's out of the way. I'll write to you off list about this issue if you don't mind, as there are things in there I don't recognise. Alex klango ID: alex-thynne skype name: grytpype2006 windows live messenger name: alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of john coley Sent: 16 October 2008 10:49 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows update Dorothy, programs appear in the system tray because they're running. The wayto clear your system tray is to stop programs loading at startup. Thehigher the number of programs allowed to start with windows the slower your computer's going to be. They all use up resources.The only two programs that run at startup on my computer are AVG andJaws. There really is no reason to have everything running at startup. If you go to start, then run, type msconfig and press enter the system configuration window will open. If you back tab till you're on the tabs,then arrow to the startup tab, then press tab to get onto the startuplist. Everything in that list is starting with windows. The more of it you uncheck the better. If you're not happy doing it yourself you could get help doingit. When you've unchecked what you want to uncheck tab down to ok andpress enter or activate with the spacebar. You'll get a prompt to reboot. click yes. Your computer will reboot. You'll get a message when your computerstarts to say that you are running in selective mode. There's a checkbox to stop the message being shown again. Check it and press enter. That's it. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:30 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Windows updateHi Tiddy I got all mine yesterday but I did look for them got Desktop first laptop later I hope the Updates for year 2002 will help me. I must not mix topics I know but can any person say why having a lot in the system tray holds up the computer? I am not sure if I move what is there where to put it would it be in all Programmes I have sound ound max avg Lunar Jaws my back up for external drive something called invidia settings it says Messenger not signed in now which of those could I put elsewhere and find fast? Regards Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tiddy Ogg" <oggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:15 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Windows updateThey're coming in now, Thursday. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq--------------------------------------------------------------------------------No virus found in this incoming message. 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