Whimper

[kengr]

I've been fighting various computer weirdnesees for the last several days.

And now I'm having to run Norton Disk Doctor on my main windows box. The drive I'm running it on is *only 40 gig. And the projected time to completiomn figure is totally bogus (It says 3:53:xx, but it's only 5% done and has been running for an hour and a half. My projections say it's gonna be more like 33-34 hours)

This sucks mightily,, as my bookmarks are inaccessible, I don't have most of the software I use all the time, etc.

And this may not fix the problem I was trying to solve, anyway.

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[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Hi there - I hope you don't mind my asking what kind of computer wierdnesses you've been having? (I go by Kenora on a.c, by the way.) There are a few common things I'm seeing a lot at work (I do tech support for Road Runner) and depending on the issue, I may have a suggestion or two.

[kengr]

Well, other than way too many lockups, the main issue at the moment is that some kinds of transfers are just dying. Hamster takes forever to get messages (during which time DU meter shows *no* TCP/IP activity), Internet Rex seems to have similar issues, etc.

And some stuff slows to a crawl that didn't do so a week or two back. Very annoying. Though part of it may be lack of disk sace.

After I get the D & E partitions defragged, I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling TCP/IP. I've already reset the cable modem and the router.

I can tell fpr sure if the other wiindows box ishaving similar problems or not as it runs a digfferent software mix.