Just wanted to thank MJ for this great advice. I ran Scan Disk numerous times, and now my PC is running okay again.
I'm still going to back up and then clean up my PC hard drive. So if anyone knows how to do this and get the hard drive and the applications...ooops programs...to work when they are recovered, please let me know. Jane In a message dated 5/28/02 11:12:59 AM, LouComNews at aol.com writes: << In a message dated 5/28/02 10:16:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jane25345 at aol.com writes: > Lately the PC has begun to run as slow as molasses. I've tried defragging > it, > but that doesn't help. Before you redo your whole hard drive, I'd try running Scan Disk. (It performs the same type of function of rebuilding your Macintosh desktop by making a new version of your FAT file - File Allocation Table.) I've had good luck running Scan Disk three times in a row (even if it says no errors were found) and then rebooting via a cold boot. After reboot, run it again if necessary. I've had really slow machines pop back to life by doing this little trick. Also, make sure that your hard drive has at least 200 MB of space. I've seen machines with less act very poorly. Windows needs a lot of scratch space so make sure you have plenty of free space on your drive. Good luck! M. J. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be June 25. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
