NOT A VB QUESTION, MY WINDOWS IS SCREWED UP

Dimava, I've had this problem before, and I get it a lot. Here is a tip that you can use instead of having to always restart: hit CTRL ALT DEL once, hit cancel, and that should do the trick.

[dimava]

ok, thanks, closing the explorer sometimes helps (when the explorer restarts, but sometimes it gets stuck while reloading the explorer)

Make this a habit: Scandisk and Defrag your computer.

This will put everything back together, remove errors, and speed up your computer.

The process takes an hour or two. But it works. You should do it every 2-3 weeks.

The bigger the hard drive, the longer it will take. When running defrag, make sure nothing is loaded, turn off your screensaver off and anything else, and then just let it do it's thing.

[dimava]

I think I know that I leave it on over night, and with a 37 gig hard drive, my athlon 550 was busy all night long. also the more you defragment it, the faster it will be the next time, also if you dont click on show details, it will be faster, same with scan disk, if you dont click on detials, it will be faster

I am not very good at fixing errors/removing viruses (I usually just reformat, because it needs it anyway)(and I know this isnt about virii.)

What does it mean to defrag??

I know what scan disk is, it scans for bad sectors in your hard drive, but I dont know what defragging is....

[dimava]

defragmenting:

lets say that you delete a file, then make a bigger file, then it will start writing to the place where the other file was deleted, and finished writing at the end of you hard drive. so in a way defragmentor orgonizes the data so it can be accessed faster, and save faster, and stuff, its good to do it often but microsoft suggests once every 2 months, and if you just install windows, its also a good Idea. oh yea, sometimes when files are written to you hard drive, they dont go in order, they are just thrown anyware on your hard drive (phiciscly not like windows folders) so disk defragmentor puts all the data to the front of your hard drive

Thanks for the Info!

[dimava]

no problem

In other words, your computer is a full complete puzzle. Kids come along and take out all the pieces and mess everything up so you don't know where anything is. Than mommy comes along and defrags after the little kids' messes.

Defragment (My Computer > (Right Click) C:\ > Properties > Tools > Defragment Now... or Start > Programs > Accessories > Disk Defragmenter) is a tool that puts the little data cluster's back to where they belong. When you create and delete files, etc. etc., your computer stores data all over. The problem is..since they are stored everywhere, they would also be hard to retrieve because your computer has to look for them. And that's when your computer needs its time to defrag itself. Putting all the data cluster the the front of the drive, middle, back. And it will fix any errors along the way too.

This is how to solve a problem for if your computer is going so slow. Just run defrag, it may take long, but it's worth it. And after it's done, you shutdown and restart, and it should speed up a bit.

Thanks!!

Matthews explanation is much better than your dimava(no offnse)

[dimava]

I know, I'm not good with explaining stuff, I start from the middle then work my way to then end, and then I start talking about the begginging

[V(ery) Basic]

Why is is that when you don't use your computer for 2 weeks (on holiday, no, we don't go for a month like John, but then John goes for different reasons ) it goes like lightening compared to when you last left it? Does it save up its energy?

Also, (I read this somewhere, but I'm not sure) win95 uses FAT16 Disk Partition, so drives of 2GB are allowed, having 5GB, I have 3 hard drives (1 in reality, but Windows splits it up into three) How can I format just one of them, not the whole thing?

Windows is screwed up

Wow, Really?

[dimava]

you must have a old system if it put it into 3 hard drives. but when you reformat, the option thing only gives you phisical hard drives, not the mental ones that windows gives you

[absalom]

In window just right click on the virtual hdrive and click format

[HaxSoft]

Originally posted by V(ery) Basic
Why is is that when you don't use your computer for 2 weeks [...] it goes like lightening compared to when you last left it?

Also, [...] win95 uses FAT16 Disk Partition, so drives of 2GB are allowed, having 5GB, I have 3 hard drives [...] How can I format just one of them, not the whole thing?

I have been experiencing that too -- Windows runs FAST when not starting the PC for FIVE WEEKS (vacation is long in Scandinavia). But those experiences I had only when running Windows 95 version A.

It sounds like you are runnng Win95 version A. I think you can download an update from Micro$oft to Win95 OSR 2, which means that you will get FAT-32, which again means that you can format your harddisk of 5 gigs as one partition instead of three.

Also a few hints -- I don't say you should do it -- I am just a scientist. But Windows 95/NT can be registered with the following license key:

00200-OEM-0023002-whatever_number

And all other Microsoft products (before 98 or 99) can be registered with the following license key:

0401-any_sequence_of_digits

Chance is that the MS product you are installing won't accept your "any_sequence_of_digits". So all you do is to make sure you start with 0 as the final digit. Then you just keep trying 0,1,2,...,9 One of the ten digits will work. (Talk about hacking, but I didn't change any of their software)

That 0104 will even make "upgrade" versions think they are full versions, because Micro$oft didn't make any distinction between the software on full version CDs and upgrade version CDs. They were stupid enough to underestimate us users.

0402 indicates an upgrade; 0401 indicates a full version. (again, we ain't talking hacking or cracking ... the software is still intact, and so you are keeping the license agreement too).

I am not saying you should do these things, I am just educating the web surfers.

The 1st trick will work with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.
The 2nd trick will work with Frontpage 98, Office 97, Visual Basic 5, and applications from that time.