In a message dated 8/30/2004 8:25:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Let me gripe first. I don't how many messages I've read that say something
> like "when I go to open it I get an error message saying something about
> Excel, I can't remember the rest of the name it gave me." When you get an error
> message stop and write down what it says! It could be important. Sorry,
> Dale you aren't the only one.
No problem, but Im sorry, I was extremely annoyed, and tired seeing as
how I wrote that first thing in the morning and was in a hurry to get to
work.
>
> I don't understand the part about downloading McAfee. Is it an online scan
> or are you running two A/V programs.
I have AVG on my puter and I use the free McAfee but I have to get on
line to use it. It dl's first then I hit the "Scan" button and it runs.
Normally it'll take about 20 minutes (I think) to run through the whole C drive.
This time it took over 7 hours just to get through the first 4400 files.
>
> It's sounds like something is causing some program in your start up to fail.
> It may be that the slow down is caused by programs that are trying to load
> and can't but they are still taking up resources trying to start. Get your
> computer started and go to run on the start menu and type msconfig. Someone
> correct me if that's not the correct command for WinME. When msconfig
> appears, go to the startup tab and find the cd program that's not loading correctly
> and uncheck it. Reboot and see if that helps. If it doesn't help, you can
> try disabling other programs that are starting automatically. I would do one
> at a time and then reboot and see the effect. Use a little common sense
> about which ones to disable first. Leave the important ones like your anti-virus
> for last.
I just had a puter techie friend of mine here and he looked at it
quickly and did all sorts of stuff to it, but it still hasn't helped. I still
can't run the spyware and it still takes nearly an hour to run defrag because it
goes in very small chuncks at a time and restarts about 40 or 50 times once
after each chunck. It took over 20 minutes to do the last 3% to 5%.
In a few minutes I'm going to TRY to run the McAfee again and go to
bed (if I have to) while it's running.
Dale
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