at the temporal coordinates: 11/15/01 9:02 AM, the entity known as Sidney Ho
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] conveyed the following:
> on 11/15/01 Pam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> When I startup, my icons on the desktop will blink sequentially. This is
>> more annoying than the Wallpaper disappearing act on NT ("Now you see the
>> wall paper now you don't , ta-da!") My computer will also freeze randomly. I
>> thought I might have a virus, but havent found one in the usual way. Any
>> suggestions?
>
> This is (almost certainly) a sign of serious Directory corruption. You
> should boot from another drive and run a disk repair utility, preferably
> Disk Warrior.
>
> If you know your way around the Mac well, trash your Finder and System
> Preferences first. You can even trash the Finder, System (and System
> Resources) files too and replace them with clean ones. If the System Folder
> doesn't show an OS icon, then double click the System itself and close it
> again to manually "re-bless" the System Folder.
It is *possible* that rebuilding the Desktop may deal with this, but I'd do
Disk Warrior first, then Norton (or TechTool Pro). Reinstalling the System
& Finder should be a last resort only. Unless you've got good indication
those files are corrupted, looking for extension conflicts comes before
reinstall of the System. Other things that can cause the Finder to be slow
in displaying HD volumes include: if File Sharing is active for those
volumes; if those volumes have an alias in your Apple menu and you've got
the hierarchical Apple menu running. Neither of these should cause a
freeze, though.
- Eric.
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