Reply to Evan Omo, sorry I have not been back to you on this, our over 50's centre has been snowed in with blizzards and icy roads, so the Centre...
We have some computers in our forum that are getting slower and slower, both booting up and getting switched on to the Internet Defragged....
Defrag sorted, followed defrag in Safe Mode suggestion, worked fine, took about 3 hours, class pleased with that, another bit of info I can brag...
Thanks Paul, John & Evan, will give the Defrag from Safe Mode a try first as it could be easier to pass on to our over 50's computer forum, I...
A computer I am working on defrags up to about 75% then returns back to 1% and starts over again, I have left it for over 8 hours thinking it may...
Thanks MARKP62, that sorted that one out, have enabled for short while, to test, will disable when finished, know where to go now. Thanks again....
Opened up this problem again as unresolved, Steve R Jones comments worked so marked thread as resolved/ Checking back all responses I found MARK62...
Thanks Steve, & others for response, went to Start,run,sysdm.cpl, got System Properties, its all there, Thanks. Now why did I not think of that?...
Windows XP Home, click on System Information, no response, screen just looks at me as if I am an idiot,( No comments please). What have I not...
I have been working on another computer and have not managed to get back to this problem to mark as resolved. Have a nice evening.
Thanks Peter C,I take your point, I will now allow 'updates' in the manner you described. I will also provide system details shortly. Spanner
Why are there so many 'Updates', what do they do ?, are they necessary?. I have a thing about leaving a computer running for 'Updates' to...
6 out of 7.fouled up on no 7. but I knew Feta is a cheese, lovely stuff. Spanner
Hi Mr Bill, I used the standard defrag; system with Windows XP. Have a great New Year. Marking this 'Resolved' Spanner. PS to Admin, got the...
Happy New Year to all. OS , XP PRO Just de-fragmented a pc for a friend. report stated 'unable to de-fragment a number of files' Total of files...
The problem has been resolved, the dignostic test (Seagate) proved a faulty HD, not worth bothering about, so have replaced it with a 250GB...
I will do that when I am next on that PC and let you know results, Seagate have sent me details of how to trouble shoot their HD, will let you...
Yes , The jumper settings for Master only is zero, no jumpers. this did not work,but I will try again, should I try cable select? ( and what does...
Error message as requested. I have disconnected the Master HD (Faulty) and connected the Slave in its place. It boots up but the following comes...
Situation so far, Have Done: Downloaded Seagate Diagnostic Disk from working PC. Unable to get faulty PC to boot up from CD. Tried changing Boot...
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