> Oh, it's a kind of mix of apps. A game here, a graphics app there. Most show
> as 'report sent'. If I click to view the details of those that weren't sent,
> there's a little text, way less than in this email. Of course, this may be
> because I've already done the cleaning.
What was taking all t
Oh, it's a kind of mix of apps. A game here, a graphics app there. Most show
as 'report sent'. If I click to view the details of those that weren't sent,
there's a little text, way less than in this email. Of course, this may be
because I've already done the cleaning.
I see an option to include "a
> No question there's something wrong here. I'm just wondering what it is.
> Especially if it's going to hold over into Win7 in October. Could be some
> very obscure setting that's preventing the uploads.
Well, I was thinking about this, and I think I might have misstated the case
when I said tha
4 gigs was just the first cleanup, probably from a year's Vista install. The
second 7gig was from just a month later. I _had_ changed the mobo, but I
don't recall too many crashes after that; Vista handled the new mobo fairly
gracefully (compared to Win9x anyway!).
The only app I can recall crashi
I have a Dell desktop, now a fair number of years old. It also seems to
take a long time to boot up. Could this be a Dell-specific issue?
Randall
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
> At 05:28 PM 8/21/2009, John Settle wrote:
> >Changing that fan would be a cheap, easy fix!
>
At 05:28 PM 8/21/2009, John Settle wrote:
>Changing that fan would be a cheap, easy fix!
Lubricating it is even easier, but it requires extracting the box from its
place in the configuration, and opening it up. A non-trivial exercise. It
never occurred to me that the noisy fan would cause bad
To those few who may care, Merlin Mann is back on macbreak weekly. The show
lost some of it's play when he left last summer, and even though Bourne
isn't around doing his Ed Mcmahon impersonation it's still fun. Between
Inhatko and Mann, it's quite a fun show.
For those who might not know, macbr
Fred Holmes wrote:
Any chance that flashing pattern is a code that the boot drive has exceeded S.M.A.R.T. tolerances?
I have my POST screens turned on and I got a S.M.A.R.T warning about my hard drive, which is why I
ran Spinrite. I first read the details of the S.M.A.R.T. warning, which were
> I can't help but think something is wrong with your machine. I just ran
> disk cleanup on my win 7 install from 6 months ago...I had less then half a
> gig of data cleaned from running disk clean up. Never ran DCU before.
If he has a program or programs that crash with any regularity, those cr
I can't help but think something is wrong with your machine. I just ran
disk cleanup on my win 7 install from 6 months ago...I had less then half a
gig of data cleaned from running disk clean up. Never ran DCU before.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tony B wrote:
> Running Disk Cleanup in Vis
> However, poking around there I am unable to find any way of disabling these
> massive files.
You're right, I thought there was a "disable" option, but I don't see one.
There should be (even though I'd recommend against using it).
> Nor any particular explanation of why the files would be so
>
TPiwowar wrote:
On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think Google is doing the a good job of making its Groups, on-line
apps, and other tools accessible and easy to use, but as the article
suggests, control and security are difficult and complicated.
Is that fair? The article says "In
Look for something that has become changed in the CMOS BIOS SETUP. Perhaps the
boot order has become changed, and it is waiting for the #1 boot device to
become ready, which it doesn't, so boot from HD0 doesn't occur until the wait
has timed out.
Fred Holmes
At 11:03 AM 8/21/2009, Chris Dunfo
> Is it possible you have an antivirus program or another program running
> before windows loads? Do you have another LED that indicates drive
> activity?
No, all this happens before the computer starts. The hard drive doesn't even
spin up until after this weirdness is finished, and the HD activ
Thanks for the pointer. I had never even noticed that option in Control
Panel.
However, poking around there I am unable to find any way of disabling these
massive files. Nor any particular explanation of why the files would be so
huge. Plain text error reports can't possibly stretch into gigabyte
Is it possible you have an antivirus program or another program running
before windows loads? Do you have another LED that indicates drive
activity?
Chris Dunford wrote:
Chris--What model is it? The flashy light is likely a trouble code.
Yeah, it's not that kind of flashy light. It's
> Yeah, it's not that kind of flashy light. It's the "power on" light in the
> center of the power button. It starts out flashing on and off slowly, then
> ramps up so that it's flashing faster and faster
> until it finally boots. There's no sequence that you could interpret as a
> code.
Interesti
Any chance that flashing pattern is a code that the boot drive has exceeded
S.M.A.R.T. tolerances? I have my POST screens turned on and I got a S.M.A.R.T
warning about my hard drive, which is why I ran Spinrite. I first read the
details of the S.M.A.R.T. warning, which were "too many read erro
> Chris--What model is it? The flashy light is likely a trouble code.
>
Yeah, it's not that kind of flashy light. It's the "power on" light in the
center of the power button. It starts out flashing on and off slowly, then
ramps up so that it's flashing faster and faster
until it finally boots.
Chris--What model is it? The flashy light is likely a trouble code.
> -Original Message-
> I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but
now I
> need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple
of
> minutes before it starts the boot proc
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