Follow-up to 'Can I suppose this is my G Grandfather'.......

Lezlibangor · Post by **Lezlibangor** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:15 am

I recently submitted a question in this Forum entitled 'Can I suppose that this is my G Grandfather'. I have been attempting for days now to post a reply but keep being closed down by outlook express. My daughter tells me that there is bug in the system (or something!).

Anyhow, I just wanted to thank the people who took the time to reply to my post. I took your advice and after a lot more checking on Scotlands People, discovered that the one I was following up was not the right one!

So back to square one....... Still looking for Thomas Beattie Scott, born approx 1866, somewhere in Scotland!

Lezlibangor

Post by **marilyn morning** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:32 am

Hi Lez,

Are you running any spyware on your computer? If not you may want to give your computer a tune-up. Here are the two "Free" spyware programs that I use for general maintenance.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/P ... ctor.shtml

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html

Something else you may want to try, is to click on Tools, located at the top of your page and click on Internet Options, then click on Delete History. Four boxes will pop up; Temproary Files, Cookies, History and Form Data.
Click on "Delete All" and then OK.

And one last piece of advice would be to defrag your computer, each and every time you click off of the internet. Here's a link on how to

http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/windows/i ... defrag.htm

You may not have a bug at all, it could be some of this garbage dragging your computer down?

Regards
Marilyn

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:05 am

Hello Marilyn,

I’d say you’re quite possibly right, but I’m sure you didn’t mean to say to do a daily defrag. Defrags can take an awful long time and you shouldn’t touch the computer while it’s going on. If I had to do one daily I think I’d rather go back to using a slate (now there’s a thought).

For most people, and it depends on what you’re doing with your hard drive, a monthly defrag would be plenty. It’s the people, and that’s most people, who never get around to it who get their drives in a mess.

Now Linux, Ubuntu for example, is an interesting operating system for anyone adventurous enough to try it, they could install it on a spare computer even. It’s absolutely free, all the programs and updates are free, there are no viruses, no spyware, no restarts, and no defrags.

Windows Vista apparently is set to defrag automatically. If for some reason you need to do a manual defrag you have to turn this off. Has anyone had experience of this?

All the best, I'm off to do a defrag.
Alan

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:57 am

One could also switch to a Mac.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:51 am

I dream of having a Mac (or was it a Big Mac? - in which case it might have been a nightmare)

Alan

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:52 am

Laura wrote:One could also switch to a Mac.

My other half's dream when he can afford it.

Happy New Year Laura - nice to hear from you.

Kind regards,
Annette

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:56 pm

Alan,

I've done the manual defrag with Windows Vista and haven't had to turn anything off.

I have a perfectly good eMac sitting on the desk in my guest room with a fried modem. It was going to cost something like $300 to get it fixed and if I didn't want to try shipping it somewhere, I was going to have to drive for about 3 hours to reach the nearest Apple service center. Also, in trying to work out my McAfee problems, I saw on the internet where those wonderful people in hacker land are now targeting Mac's.

Good luck to all of us using computers these days!

Carol