Strange behaviour

[Chuck]

Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer
started hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular
directory. The machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is
having problems, so I ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now
those files are fine, and the entire machine seems to be running
noticeably faster. What happened?
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[Haggis]

"Chuck" > wrote in message
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> Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
> hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
> machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
> ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
> the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it more
often :> )

[Chuck]

Haggis wrote:
> "Chuck" > wrote in message
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>>Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
>>hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
>>machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
>>ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
>>the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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>
> scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it more
> often :> )
>
>

I run it all the time in standard mode. I'm forced to! Win98 locks at
least once a day and I all I can do to recover is press the reset
button. When it reboots it runs scandisk for me. :-(
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[Haggis]

"Chuck" > wrote in message
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> Haggis wrote:
>> "Chuck" > wrote in message
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>>>Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
>>>hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
>>>machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
>>>ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
>>>the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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>>
>> scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it
>> more often :> )
>
> I run it all the time in standard mode. I'm forced to! Win98 locks at
> least once a day and I all I can do to recover is press the reset button.
> When it reboots it runs scandisk for me. :-(
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do you scan for malware also?

http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

it might be time to backup and do a fresh install (i used to do it once a
year with win98 , keeps the windows folder from growing and growing)

[PA Bear]

Take Out the Trash (#4)
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm
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Chuck wrote:
> Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer
> started hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular
> directory. The machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is
> having problems, so I ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now
> those files are fine, and the entire machine seems to be running
> noticeably faster. What happened?

[Chuck]

Haggis wrote:

>
> do you scan for malware also?


At least once a week. Though I have to say that since installing
teatimer (part of the new SpyBot S&D) I haven't had a single piece of
malware install itself and it's been about 3 months now. I used to find
something new installed every other day.

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[Chuck]

PA Bear wrote:
> Take Out the Trash (#4)
> http://aumha.org/a/health.htm

Doesn't the "Disk Cleanup" program do all this automatically? It was one
of the pleasant surprises I remember finding when I first upgraded to W98.

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[PA Bear]

Delete Temporary Internet Files using Disk Cleanup then do so using IE
Tools>Internet Options>General (accepting the option to delete all offline
content). I think you'll be surprised.
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Chuck wrote:
> PA Bear wrote:
> > Take Out the Trash (#4)
> > http://aumha.org/a/health.htm
>
> Doesn't the "Disk Cleanup" program do all this automatically? It was one
> of the pleasant surprises I remember finding when I first upgraded to W98.