help!! unable to defrag

Amber Sun · Post by **Amber Sun** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:19 am

spot;1130216 wrote: I'm completely useless at conveying my meaning, for which I apologize. The link I gave was to the various Zone Alarm products, only two of which (the expensive ones) carry a built in virus checker. I was trying to suggest that you check the one provided is one of those expensive ones since I was rather astounded an ISP would make such a flamboyant financial gesture, even to a long-standing customer.

This is the one I have hun, the virus/malware checker and cleaner upper. It's available free to all in Winnipeg, (I don't know about all in Canada) for those people who have MTS (Manitoba Telephone System) as their ISP. So it has nothing to do with my being a long standing customer, it is just part of their package.

Post by **spot** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:34 am

Amber Sun;1130432 wrote: This is the one I have hun, the virus/malware checker and cleaner upper. It's available free to all in Winnipeg, (I don't know about all in Canada) for those people who have MTS (Manitoba Telephone System) as their ISP. So it has nothing to do with my being a long standing customer, it is just part of their package.

And so they do. That's an impressive ISP to sign up with.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:03 am

Sunshine;1129368 wrote: I tried to defrag my computer and it won't! I keep getting this error message.

Disk Defragmenter could not start. does anyone know what might be causing this and what can I do to fix it?

Are you using one of the Microsoft Operating Systems which have Services? I expect if you are then either a service is stopped with an exception or the hard drive needs the Operating System's equivalent of chkdsk running to verify it's clean. It can happen if there's less than around 10% of free disk space too.

I prefer using Defraggler - Defragment your files! as a utility alongside their http://www.ccleaner.com/

Amber Sun · Post by **Amber Sun** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:36 pm

CARLA;1130126 wrote: Amber Sun you can download it free use this link look down the page where it say "ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD" click on it and your download will start if it doesn't look up the page where it tells you what to do if it doesn't. It will download and install for you without paying.

CCleaner - Download

Hi Carla.

I just cleaned up my comp and then went to the link and downloaded the CCleaner. I restored my previous settings first because I wanted to see how the cleaner did first. So far seems alright, sure is fast. It didn't pick up one file that my grandson had loaded with asking me first, it was an install log that the cleaner said it couldn't find. This doesn't make sense to me because if it couldn't find it then how does it know it is there?

I want to thank you and spot for the link. :-6 Perhaps I will try the defrag program also.

Thanks again

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:19 pm

CARLA;1129748 wrote: I have also recommend to clients in this tough times to go to free Antivirus software as well. One of the best out there is:

AVAST it's free and excellent when your tired of paying for bloated antivirus software that makes your machine sluggish and over booked give it a try. I don't recommend many things for users but AVAST, and Malwarebytes are 2 products that have proven themselve over, and over again to be effective and aren't resource hogs on your machine. I have been in the IT field since the 70's I've seen software come and go and only recommend ones I use.

How do you rate Avast against AVG8?

Post by **Sunshine** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:14 pm

I found some of the problems. Somehow I lost a few important drives. Not sure how that happened but loading them again has cleared up most of the malfunctions. I must have said yes to something I shouldn't have.

Post by **spot** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:42 pm

Sunshine;1131236 wrote: I found some of the problems. Somehow I lost a few important drives. Not sure how that happened but loading them again has cleared up most of the malfunctions. I must have said yes to something I shouldn't have.

Could you tell us the name of an example drive? I'm trying to stay connected with the story.

Post by **Sunshine** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:53 pm

spot;1131276 wrote: Could you tell us the name of an example drive? I'm trying to stay connected with the story.

A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In DOS systems, drivers are files with a.SYS extension. In Windows environments, drivers often have a.DRV extension.

A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device. Each device has its own set of specialized commands that only its driver knows. In contrast, most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands for the device.

Clear as mud. :-2

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:13 pm

AVG8 is one of the best around but not free. AVAST has a home version that is free with registration for 14 months then you register it again free for another 14 months.

[QUOTE]How do you rate Avast against AVG8?[/QUOTE]

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:58 pm

CARLA;1131309 wrote: AVG8 is one of the best around but not free. AVAST has a home version that is free with registration for 14 months then you register it again free for another 14 months.

I run AVG8 Free - registration is optional but I registered with AVG6 Free and they've notified me of every update since.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:09 pm

I stand corrected and will add AVG8 to my list of great Antivirus product that don't cost a dime.

I[QUOTE] run AVG8 Free - registration is optional but I registered with AVG6 Free and they've notified me of every update since.[/QUOTE]

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:15 pm

CARLA;1131323 wrote: I stand corrected and will add AVG8 to my list of great Antivirus product that don't cost a dime.

I'm happy with it but I've never tried Avast and I'm always on the look-out for something better.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:28 am

A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In DOS systems, drivers are files with a.SYS extension. In Windows environments, drivers often have a.DRV extension.

A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device. Each device has its own set of specialized commands that only its driver knows. In contrast, most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands for the device.

Clear as mud. :-2

Im doing some checking in to this for you. As soon as spock comes up with something Ill copy his answer and get back to you.

Post by **Sunshine** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:01 pm

Nomad;1132154 wrote: Im doing some checking in to this for you. As soon as spock comes up with something Ill copy his answer and get back to you.

I'll be waiting.