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ritaann stay as far away as you can from NSW, it causes more problems than it fixes. This is especially true with Windows ME, any Norton product and ME don't get along, there are certain dll files that conflict and cause crashes.

:) thanks
i believe you and Grimson are right.thank you both for ...

[quote="richardc"]If you are running Win98 - you could be running out of resources or memory.
You don't say what else is loading when you start up.[/QUOT

hi richardc
i have windows ME it would be my guess too that i'm running low on resources.thanks for reply have a good day
rita

Grimson wrote:what version of norton ??

norton systemworks 2003

Well, the general health of your computer comes to mind. Virus free? Malware free? Windows updates? Hello oldestonecat
well i think the general health of computer was ok and i know i was virus and malware free (if all the progs.i have for adware trogans etc. work)could it be i dont have enough RAM ...

hello everyone
has anyone had a problem with norton system works?i tried to install it on my pc and it crashed my system and i had to take pc to the shop and they fixed it but could only install the av out of all the progs.on this program.does anyone have any idea why?it had alot of stuff i'd like ...

Immortal wrote:hahaha.. good ones..

hi i'll second that
rita

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hi
i enjoyed ...

You didn't answer whether or not you ran a full surface scan from within windows.
I'll assume you did.

Try a full surface scan from the bootdisk. If it finds any bad sectors it will mark them, and windows won't use them. I have a feeling your HD has a ton of bad sectors on it.

Boot into the ...

I had a look at the log you sent, but didn't see anything that pointed to a problem for scandisk. there were a few programs I wouldn't install on my machines, but other than that all looked ok.

The bigfix program MAY be a problem. Programs that advertise 'fixing' a PC tend to do more harm than ...

Lets pray this fixes the problem :)

I had the same thing with scandisk on one of my old drives when I was running 98. It was a filename that was far too long. Scandisk crapped out for me, even in Dos. I had to search my PC for quite a while to locate the bad file.
If it turns out that you have ...

oops, a mistake....

smartdrv.exe is not in the folder I sent you to, it's in the Windows folder.
copy/paste it onto your floppy disk. hey norm
i got the floppy made and scandisk is running from the floppy and so far its doing fine it says its got 1,830,040 clusters and its already done 50,000 and ...

Ok, lets get started.

You may want to print these instructions, since you won't have access to them once we use the bootdisk.

Go into the control panel Start>Settings>Control Panel
Click on the tab named Windows Setup ...wait a bit.
Click the startup tab.
Follow instructions to make a startup ...

We had better get this fixed or problems will escalate. It may be a corrupt file, or a filename is too long and scandisk can't handle it.

If you allow this problem to persist errors on your drive will be allowed to multiply.

If making and using a boot disk is a problem, don't worry, I'll walk ...

Debbie wrote:Welcome to Speedguide Rita! Rep points to ya!

hi Debbie
thank you for the welcome--im gonna like it here!
rita

*cho* wrote:Gimme back my socks...I can still wear them...they arn't super dirty yet..

seriously I want my socks back.

lol lol
hi i am replying to get some rep points

rita

...which is actually meaningless because people stack themselves.

Probably intended to rate technical knowledge, most points are earned in the general forum, posting about religion and politics. Become something of highschool popularity contest.

I understand how it can be confusing. Hey ...

Its a way for members to grade each other based on their posts. Red is a negative Rep, Green is Positive and Grey is rep given from someone with not enough cumulative points to register as one color or the other.


hi Roody
how does a person grade someone on a post?sorry i am so dense lol
Rita ...

Sorry about the error Rita, it's been a while since I had 98 installed.

If you have a 98 boot floppy (startup disk) try the same command after using it to boot to the A:> prompt.

I'm also wondering if your scandisk is freezing up, or is it just taking a long time and appears locked up. How long ...

hi everyone
im new here.could anyone tell me exactly what reputation is?i was reading something about it in one of the posts
Thanks
Rita

Give scandisk a try from the commandline.

reboot to the menu again (tapping F8), instead of 'safe mode' select 'command prompt only'

Then type:

scandisk c: /autofix

Hit [enter] Hi Norm
i tried typing scandisk c: /autofix and it gave the message:you have typed parameters that are invalid for ...

Rita
Go through your c:\windows\temp and delete all your temporary files. Also in your c:\windows directory find and delete all your ~ffxxxxxxxx files (these are made after searches or file finds...the xx's represent random characters or numbers). Open your Internet Explorer click on TOOLS/Internet ...

Did you uninstall the program? Will it scandisk now?
Ken
yes i uninstalled the program and it still doesnt scandisk--im wondering if it didnt really mess something up bad.im going to do a search and see if there are any files on the computer left of this power defrag--that maybe didnt get deleted ...

That is probably your problem... Do as Pie said (I mistakenly quoted Pie before when I meant to quote you... :o ) and boot into safe mode, uninstall the 3rd party defrag program, and then scandisk...

In the future, you may want to always run scandisk from safe mode as 9x OS (95, 98, ME) do not ...

Rita ..I guess since you mention squares that your using Windows 98/95 or ME. Try running it in Safe mode. Reboot the computer and BEFORE it starts windows splash screen..Keep tapping F8
Under the advanced options Upper right hand corner FREE and lower left hand corner DELETE before you start the ...

Hey Rita,
Would need a bit more info, such as what progs have been installed recently, OS and updates, any other symptoms, basically give as much info as possible...

From a hardware perspective, I have seen RAM that was bad or going bad cause this, or possibly your hard drive is getting too many ...

hi everyone
i am new to computers--and dont know anything much about them .anyway every time i try to run scandisk it locks the computer up solid and i have to pull the plug to turn it off.it gets about 3 squares across the progress line and it locks up--but it will scan without locking up when i ...

For those of you who use Norton Antivirus I want to show you why I think it's terrible. I see this everyday and I decided to do an experiment the next time I had a "real messed up" computer. I have a clients pc with Norton 2004 installed that had not caught a single virus in real-time protection ...

YeOldeStonecat wrote:It's the firewall letting you know that it picked up a port scan on your WAN IP. Welcome to the internet, it's something that happens all the time.

hi stonecat
thanks for your reply glad its nothing to worry about
rita

ands it's also something that will grab you if you don't put it into perspective, Rita.
Sygate is up running and doing it's job. That's all you should worry about. Don't worry what or who is being blocked, only that they are. Don't worry too much about the logs. They breed a disease called paranoia ...

hello everyone
im new to computers and recently installed sygate firewall--has anyone ever used this --anyway a couple of times yesterday it flashed red and i clicked on it and the log came up and i did a backtrace and clicked whois and it said something about aol--so what does this mean?aol is my ...

MadDoctor wrote:

hi
i am new to computers--am comletely illerate lol and i recently got sygate and its easy to understand and i love it
Rita