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Thread ID: 50775	2004-11-01 06:27:00	Disk Scan in DOS?	Pumpkin Eater (6341)	Press F1

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286727	2004-11-02 00:59:00	Safe mode does not turn off screen savers. The FAQ here tells you that. :D	Graham L (2)
286728	2004-11-02 05:03:00	Graham, i think your reply post is half right? ready my comments below, Suzan thanks for your note. 4 hours to defrag, after giving up on diskscan, before starting, i checked my email then went to F1, and the system rebooted. I think Windows screen savers do not run in Safe Mode, as my home ME PC (networked to a XP Pc) always has no problem in safe mode. But 3rd party screeen savers are not disabled in safe mode. as in "Web Shots" which i had to remove from the start up folder. task manager only showed Explorer as running then, yet i still had trouble. configsys and i set to boot up in selictive mode, stopped everything i could think i could do with out, after that Defrag kept restarting saying some running in hte back ground, but eventuly finished. I found during all of my exploring something i do not understand as i have neevr come across it. I wa sin control panel/system but not sure now just where i learn the following. Drive C running in DOS compatibility mode. asking for info, i got told there was a dos driver running somewhere. Whta do i do to find out waht driver? Somewhere last year, their manager removed the CD player and put in a Cd R/W, but cd drivers appear okay. i suspect the mother board was replaced, as bios looks diffent, last year i set it to boot from C first as they always left a floppy in by mistake. when the BIOS writes to the screen it says 16Mb ram!!!!!!!!! but i checked and else where it says 128-MB. i enabled full ram test on boot up, and it looked like it checked ram 3-4 times but the numbers did go far higher than 16-Mb. maybe the bios checks 4 banks of ram seperatly, i do not know. The pc is so sugglish, when i saw 16-Mb ram, i thought it proved the idea there was faulty ram chips, but ME will not run in 16-MB along with MS Word at the same time? I ma not going there until Friday now, an dthen i have other things to do, Wednesday morning i am going to work on the sheltered workshop PC, i do not know where to satrt to sort that out, and i am only prpared to sapend a couple of hours, i had a hobby/business to run. All profits donated tot the cancer soicety as products from my hands (woden toys) as a bad case maanger at WINZ dcheated me 2 years ago, nad tried to stop me stciking up for my rights by accuisng me of not declaring my extra income. so next review i did not declare extra, an dshe took my extra away. i faxed her and had my money back within 2 hours,due to rounding off, etc i made a few cents extra per week. I reworked my books so my donations became a business expense. i asked her if she would enter negitive extra income onto hteir system, as i hoped it would amke up my losses. she had no sense of humour, and quit her job about htis time last year. leaving me with hush money and a letter from hte Minister in charge to me (rick barke) saying my money was not hush money but leagal entitlent. $33 per week.	Pumpkin Eater (6341)
286729	2004-11-02 05:50:00	Umm if the mobo is pretty recent or a modern one cds dont need drivers - unless u use the cd in DOS (or hard drives for that matter (unless theres no option in the BIOS to select the cd/s , or hdd's where it says ide primary/secondary). Or whatever IDE connection the cds / hard drive/s are on. How old is this computer/motherboard?? The hdd shouldnt be in DOS compatibilty. Well normally a hdd isnt in DOS compatibilty mode.	Spacemannz (808)
286730	2004-11-02 07:55:00	All i can say now, there is nobody at the centre who cna say what the head office maanger did when he put in the CD R/W, i od know thta on boot up, a window opens then minimises saying somethink like iq packer writer and somethin to do with writing CD, more in the audio line rather than data. (Iq is a guess) i do not know what the dos compatibliy means, i suspect it could be a non FAT 32 drive, if it isa new mother nboard, pretty certain it is, then the hard drive was just moved over. i know there are temarure readings in BIOS, one for the CPU chip works, but hte sysetm fan and temp as in the power supply does not show. suggesting he stuck in a new mnther board, plugged verything in an dleft it. maybe the old mother board wa sno good for the CD R/W or maybe he damaged it. there is some documnatation lying around about the mother board, this was not there a year ago. seems to have shown up since the CD R/W was put in. maybe he later came back and stuck in anew mother board, in ahope of correcting a error he made somewher when putting in the CD R/W He id some work on another pC there, i will tell you about thta tomorow, shows how much he knows, maybe realted to this issue too. Good night.	Pumpkin Eater (6341)
286731	2004-11-07 07:30:00	I told the manager at the sheltered work shop it was a lot easier to formatt and reinstall his system than try an dpatch it. as i have got the MS update disk from Feb 2004. I told him about things like key stroke loggers getting his bank PIN, he thought i was talking about some useful software so he said he had to ask his management first. i explined, he said he did not do banking on his PC, but what about his ISP aco**** i asked. He is thinking about it. A betteer agument would ahve been to tell him he might be sending viruses out to everybody in his adress book. this is the guy, whom i udated his virus checker for the first time in 2 years an dfound a virus, when i told him he demanded to know who had sent it to him so he could hassle them about it.	Pumpkin Eater (6341)
286732	2004-11-07 08:41:00	A guy like this manager really should not control a number of PC's! Hard drive in DOS COMPATIBILITY MODE??? That means that instead of the normal Windows way, hard disk access is being contolled by some 16-bit DOS driver! Try this (back up important stuff first). Open up config.sys and autoexec.bat (found in C:\) in notepad. Delete everything you find there. See if that fixes the problem. If not, just format. Trust me, they need them. Install all available Service Packs and security updates, an up-to-date antivirus, etc. Then brief the guy on basic computer practises. It seems he is in dire need of such advice. George	george12 (7)
286733	2004-11-07 22:45:00	Thank you George, i am thinking of giving up and getting out, even if i fix it, how long will is stay that way. he is a profestional maanger (i think) yet on his main office PC desk top there are icons for a number of downloaded games, and he has some fancy cursors. He also has a woodworking shop for his clients but not used for years. On eof his volenteers uses it. the workshop was going to close inJune as not enough clients for funding, i called in to tell him they were due fro theri 25th birthday, he had been tring to find out. he offerd me use of the workshop if i agreed to go on the books, i checked saftey of his machines, told him he needed guards etc, he told his volener to do so, 6 months later, no guards i rung OSH. And i have my own workshop with miles betetr tools and machery.	Pumpkin Eater (6341)
286734	2004-11-07 22:54:00	i frogot to mention, i saved the work shop by phoning hte local WINZ service centre manager who i knew wanted to refer people fro training. I am a long term Invalid due in part to medical misadventure, a WINZ case manager cheated me out of money fro medical travel, 2 years later i got rid of her, I am still getting hush money, and i have a letter from CEO of WINZ saying it is not hush money, which his boss Hon Rick Barker wrote tos ay he agreed. all the bad staf at WINZ here ar gone, new management agreed with me. the WINZ CEO wil not tel his bosses or the ombudsmen the truth, (would prove he is incompetant) so my hush money keeps being rolled over. I suffer fom depression, and have had a stay in mental hospital, the bad case maanger labeled me as dangerous, nad i am still trying to clrear my name, then giving up hush money and getting compensation.	Pumpkin Eater (6341)
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