Adam Carter wrote:
> One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.
Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully
security updated windows box.
2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag
3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows
install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has
been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to
find the media - just remember that OEM media is different to
standard media.
4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys)
That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just
visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my
Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up something. I
would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it.
I do wish I could do what I want to with it tho. It's not a bad
machine. 3.2GHz CPU with a little over a Gig of ram and about a 60Gb
hard drive. It would run Linux sweetly.
I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now.
It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about
software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either.
Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but maybe
it will last the kids a little while at least.
For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O
Dale
:-) :-)
