On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:50:08 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:36:29 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:14:52 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:19:29 -0500, John H
wrote:

Downloaded and ran Eusing FRC. Worked like a champ. Found 947 'issues'
and repaired them all. Ran it again, and it found none. However, it
seemed to have deleted some McAfee stuff. No problemo, however, an
update on the internet solved that problem.

Did you notice any performance improvement ??

I was just about to comment on that. When I cranked it up this AM,
Windows seemed much faster than it had been, as did the loading of
Agent. Ditto with Mozilla. Hell, just removing 900+lines in the
registry must have saved a little time somewhere!


The best way to speed up your machine is to stop unnecessary processes
from loading. Get all of those unused tool bars, media players and
browsers out of there unless you are actively using them. For god's
sake, don't load office unless you are actually using office.

A new one popped up there a few weeks back, it's something to do with
'Indexing'. Don't know where it came from, whether or not I need it,
or what.

When I double click it, I get a window titled, "Windows Search
Results".
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Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

John H

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:54 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:38:40 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:43 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:44:31 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.

I would never use it. When I get clogged up I do a format and rebuild.
Over the years I have probably averaged twice a year.

As infinitely painful as it is.... this is the best advice.

I've never had to do a reformat just to unclog a computer. Maybe I've
just been lucky.

There is one ugly Trojan/worm/virus out there that will probably have
you reloading the system.
I got it opening an active x page on a web site about caster scooters.
McAfee was popping up warnings faster than the engine could handle
them, I suppose and something got through. I tried a half dozen
different scanners and removers for the various messages I was getting
but nothing stopped the root failure. This thing was grabbing anything
that made a call to change the registry or any other system
maintenance task and popping up a gray box message that was, itself
bogus. It wouldn't even run regedit in command line, safe mode. You
couldn't get to anything close to system restore. The desktop was
hijacked and said "your system is corrupted".
Real ugly stuff. I think they also sent a payload of other crap along
with the original virus.Every scanner I ran, found and said it removed
something but still no joy.
I finally just low leveled, repartitioned and reformatted the C:
drive.

I count myself among the lucky. I've not had a virus that I know of.
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Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

John H

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:07:41 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .
...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.
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John H

Get Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. Nearly all of them offer a free scan that
comes up with 8,649,345 problems, or something of the sort, but will only
fix 25 for free. Then they hit you for your credit card number. Download
Eusing, and you can send them some cash if you want. Otherwise, it's free,
and it's as good as what you'd buy.

Yer welcome.

Steve


Steve - next question.

When I do a ctrl-alt-delete and look at the 'Processes' list, I see
about 40 executables running. What is a good way to verify which
should or shouldn't be running?
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Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

John H

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:18 -0500, wrote:

About the virus thing. I hadn't had anything for years and I ran my
W/98 machine "bareback" for most of that time. I just got on XP last
spring. I wonder if this last thing would have even "stuck" on W/98.
If I could find the web site again I might load up a sacrificial
machine and go look. I have a bunch of old machines around here.

I'd have to guess that there are not that many virus writers for Win98
these days. :-)

It's getting a little long in the tooth. I'd think that you would
have trouble with device support for all of these new fangled hardware
goodies that have come along in the last 10 years.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:18 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:47:13 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:07:41 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
...
...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.
--

John H

Get Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. Nearly all of them offer a free scan that
comes up with 8,649,345 problems, or something of the sort, but will only
fix 25 for free. Then they hit you for your credit card number. Download
Eusing, and you can send them some cash if you want. Otherwise, it's free,
and it's as good as what you'd buy.

Yer welcome.

Steve


Steve - next question.

When I do a ctrl-alt-delete and look at the 'Processes' list, I see
about 40 executables running. What is a good way to verify which
should or shouldn't be running?

Google the file name of all of them. It is cumbersome but it will give
you an idea of what it is.

I was hoping for something a little more automated. But, if that's the
only way, then that's what I'll do.


About the virus thing. I hadn't had anything for years and I ran my
W/98 machine "bareback" for most of that time. I just got on XP last
spring. I wonder if this last thing would have even "stuck" on W/98.
If I could find the web site again I might load up a sacrificial
machine and go look. I have a bunch of old machines around here.


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Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

John H

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:08:19 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:52:29 -0500, Harry
wrote:

On 12/17/09 11:45 AM, jps wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:43 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:44:31 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

In ,
om says...

...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.

I would never use it. When I get clogged up I do a format and rebuild.
Over the years I have probably averaged twice a year.

As infinitely painful as it is.... this is the best advice.

If you're a simple user like The Freak, I might agree. For those who
have lots of applications they use and would have to reinstall, it's a
bloody waste of time.

Registry Mechanic does a decent job. Vista and Win 7 both do a good
job of keeping the disc defragged.


Two of the aspects of Windozes I don't miss:

the registry
the need to defrag hard drives

There is no registry in the Apple OS, and it is pretty simple to remove
a program and all its pieces and parts. Also, the OS seems to keep the
drive(s) pretty much defragged on its own.

Backups and restores are much easier, too.

But I still like Windoze.

That's where I was headed with this.... defragging is a fragging waste
of time.... better spend wiping and re-installing.

You must have a very small number of apps. Defragging can be done
while sleeping on an XP or earlier machine. Vista and 7 take care of
it themselves.

On 12/17/09 6:08 PM, Gene wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:52:29 -0500,
wrote:

On 12/17/09 11:45 AM, jps wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:43 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:44:31 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

In ,
om says...

...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.

I would never use it. When I get clogged up I do a format and rebuild.
Over the years I have probably averaged twice a year.

As infinitely painful as it is.... this is the best advice.

If you're a simple user like The Freak, I might agree. For those who
have lots of applications they use and would have to reinstall, it's a
bloody waste of time.

Registry Mechanic does a decent job. Vista and Win 7 both do a good
job of keeping the disc defragged.


Two of the aspects of Windozes I don't miss:

the registry
the need to defrag hard drives

There is no registry in the Apple OS, and it is pretty simple to remove
a program and all its pieces and parts. Also, the OS seems to keep the
drive(s) pretty much defragged on its own.

Backups and restores are much easier, too.

But I still like Windoze.

That's where I was headed with this.... defragging is a fragging waste
of time.... better spend wiping and re-installing.


So far, I haven't seen the need to do that, gene. Before I sold off my
iMac to buy a new iMac, I made a backup of its hard drive and "migrated"
that backup to my macbook pro. In less than 40 minutes, every single
program, setting, and bit of data was transferred to the backup and
everything works fine. When the new iMac arrives, I'll use the same
process to migrate the macbook pro onto the new machine.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:13:44 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:18 -0500, wrote:



Google the file name of all of them. It is cumbersome but it will give
you an idea of what it is.

I was hoping for something a little more automated. But, if that's the
only way, then that's what I'll do.

You'll soon know which ones are ok, and just check the unfamiliar.
I'll repeat myself. Get an imager, like Ghost or the Acronis product.
Learn that. It's easy.
Anytime there's a question about your system being corrupt, restore
the image.
It's fast, no pain, and foolproof if you put a little initial thought
into it. Then you just don't worry at all about virii or other system
corruption.

--Vic

On 12/17/09 8:19 PM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:13:44 -0500, John
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:18 -0500, wrote:



Google the file name of all of them. It is cumbersome but it will give
you an idea of what it is.

I was hoping for something a little more automated. But, if that's the
only way, then that's what I'll do.

You'll soon know which ones are ok, and just check the unfamiliar.
I'll repeat myself. Get an imager, like Ghost or the Acronis product.
Learn that. It's easy.
Anytime there's a question about your system being corrupt, restore
the image.
It's fast, no pain, and foolproof if you put a little initial thought
into it. Then you just don't worry at all about virii or other system
corruption.

--Vic


Herring will no doubt delete some core elements of the OS.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:19:12 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:13:44 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:18 -0500, wrote:



Google the file name of all of them. It is cumbersome but it will give
you an idea of what it is.

I was hoping for something a little more automated. But, if that's the
only way, then that's what I'll do.

You'll soon know which ones are ok, and just check the unfamiliar.
I'll repeat myself. Get an imager, like Ghost or the Acronis product.
Learn that. It's easy.
Anytime there's a question about your system being corrupt, restore
the image.
It's fast, no pain, and foolproof if you put a little initial thought
into it. Then you just don't worry at all about virii or other system
corruption.

--Vic

Thanks Vic.
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Have a Super Christmas and a Spectacular New Year!

John H