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wendy
12-13-2002, 04:13 PM
What's your memory and what OS are you using?
Persephone
12-13-2002, 04:14 PM
www.dell.com

That's the best I can offer. I don't know nothin' bout fixin' no computers. Sorry.
wendy
12-13-2002, 04:17 PM
Have you tried rebooting and running scandisk and defrag in safe mode?
wendy
12-13-2002, 04:50 PM
What's your memory and what OS are you using?

I'm running with 64 megs and my OS is Winduhz 98.

Have you tried rebooting and running scandisk and defrag in safe mode?

Yep, been there done that.


BUY MORE MEMORY.

Come on thales, it's cheap as hell these days. Until you get around to it...think "uninstall". ;)
wendy
12-13-2002, 04:54 PM
What was the last program you installed?
Meshuga Mikey
12-13-2002, 04:56 PM
Think Macintosh~!! The newest MAC system software is actually built around UNIX,.and UNIX doesn't crash too often.

I was recently down to 20MB available on my original hard drive,.... and bought a 120 GIGABYTE drive,... and offloaded many many many gigabyes to it,...no more problems. That and that MEMORY wendya mentioned may be a cheaper alternative to replacing a whole machine regardless of what machine or platform you're on.
Persephone
12-13-2002, 04:57 PM
Where's Brandon when you need him?
12-13-2002, 05:03 PM
Quick! Delete your porn files.

That takes lots of memory (I've heard)
wendy
12-13-2002, 05:03 PM
Ok, have you tried closing your anti-virus software before trying to defrag?
12-13-2002, 05:10 PM
Thales, I hate to recommend Norton for anything, but you can run a tune up from a disk.

Side note: I'd rather have shards of glass jammed in my eyes than to have had to have recommended Norton.

I feel dirty now. I need a shower.

Unfortunately, it works.
12-13-2002, 05:13 PM
Thales, I hate to recommend Norton for anything, but you can run a tune up from a disk.

Side note: I'd rather have shards of glass jammed in my eyes than to have had to have recommended Norton.

I feel dirty now. I need a shower.

Unfortunately, it works.


I see your little gal still has that hangy-down thing going on.

I'm gonna check in the mirror tonight to see if I'm growing one. They're pretty fancy.
wendy
12-13-2002, 05:36 PM
Oh for crying out loud. Go to crucial.com and spend less than 30 bucks on 128MB of memory. They ship 2nd day FedEx for free. Find out how much RAM your system can take and max the bastard out for about 65-70 bucks. Honestly, it beats the hell out of buying a new machine...unless you WANT to.
The Guardian
12-13-2002, 06:04 PM
Probably two things going on here:

1. Not enough memory, Wendy is correct. But don't go more than 128M as Windows 9x won't really handle or address any more memory. The NT type O/S's do, in which case get as much memory as you can. My machine has 512M on it.

2. Free disk space. A defrager of any kind requires space to play with. If your hard drive is near capacity, you can't defrag. Also dump your temp file, make sure your Internet cache is flushed and so on. If you've downloaded any multimedia, get it off as well as those files are usually huge. Also Windows requires free space when you don't have lots of RAM. This can SLOOOOOOOOOW your machine down big-time.

3. Diskeeper. Best defrager out there. You can have it set so it runs in the background and you don't have to screw with anything.
Jethro Tull
12-13-2002, 08:51 PM
Power Defrag from technik.com is great, too, and the basic version is free.

Must have free disk space, and dump the cache before you begin. Also get all the programs off of your start menu, and disable your screensaver, if the problem is the defrag continually restarting.

You can also close all active programs from the close program box before beginning (except Explorer!)

If you're running Windows and crashing, that's fairly normal. There's an old joke:

Q: How many Microsoft software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. They just define darkness as the new standard.