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----- Original Message ----- From: "Garnet" <[email protected]> To: "Silver List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:17 AM Subject: Re: CS>computer virii and worms > > > > >From our local computer expert, my husband, a former softie. > > Garnet > > ============================== > > This most likely caused by 'MS Office Fast Find' feature writing to the > disk and causing scandisk to restart. > To disable Fast Find: Go to Start / Settings / Task Bar Start Menu, next > click on the Start Menu Programs then click on Advanced then open > Programs / Startup, right click on the Fast Find and select delete from > the drop down menu. If you need it back it will be in you Recycle Bin, > we also usually remove the Office Start up from the Startup Folder, you > can leave the Office Short Cut bar (unless you don't use it). > > If you don't disable your Screen Saver then scandisk or defrag will > restart whenever it kicks in. > (to disable screen saver: right click on a blank spot of the desktop and > left click on properties, in the screen saver tab note the screen saver > you prefer then select None. You will need to re-enable it after you are > done). > If you are using Win95 just click on the Start button and leave the > Start Menu up as you run Scandisk and again when you run Defrag. With > Win95 when the Start Menu is up your screen saver will be disabled (this > will not help with Win98). > > If you are using Win98 it's default setting is to "Rearrange Programs" > it may improve performance but it takes way too long to finish, or it > sets on 10% for a long time, disable it by going to Start / Run / type: > defrag then click OK, in the settings tab remove the check mark for > Rearrange Programs and click OK. If defrag will still not finish or > continues to restart you have a program that is reading from the drive > (like a antivirus program) you have two choices: > 1. Use Task Manager (Ctrl and Alt then tap the Del key once) to close > all programs EXCEPT Explorer and SysTray the defrag or scandisk should > run to completion. > 2. Restart the system in Safe Mode (press the F8 key about once per > second at system power on until the get the boot menu use the arrow keys > to select Safe Mode and Press enter. > Note: In Safe Mode you will not have Dial-up access, CD-Rom access and > your Display Colors will be limited to 16 colors. > > Also if it gets to a point then goes back (for example it gets to 69% > then drops back to 44% several times) this is normal and because it runs > into a none moveable block and must rearrange programs to fit into the > area available. > > Garnet > > > > > > > I was attempting to run Scandisk because of bootup problems, but "another > > program" kept interfering with Scandisk. I contacted Trend and asked how to > > temporarily disable their program while I ran Scandisk. They gave me > > prompt, correct advice, but I STILL had problems with Scandisk, which told > > me "another program" was running and causing interference, but all other > > programs were closed, and Trend is the only AV program I have. Perhaps I > > have a trojan running in the background? > > > > Comment, experts? > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
