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Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
115491	2003-01-21 02:17:00	Deliberate slip of the keyboard. No reference to the missus intended, or any person living or dead.	robo (205)
115492	2003-01-21 02:39:00	Put the comp in sleep mode and when I got back it had crashed again but restarted by itself after 2 min. The deleted fast finds were only the shortcuts so went into Control Panel/Fastfind and checked 'Cancel all future updates' - hope that is what is meant by turning it off. I am sure this wasn't on my system up to a few months ago so don't know where Fastfind came from although have downloaded some patches for win95. Quietly hopeful.	georgea (3045)
115493	2003-01-21 03:05:00	Sleep mode is almost never worth it, I know the Presarios had that but that could be half your problem, along with the other three halves. robo.	robo (205)
115494	2003-01-21 03:19:00	> but that could be half your > problem, along with the other three halves. > robo. Ooooh... Is this like adding One plus One and hoping to come out with a dictionary!?	Chilling_Silence (9)
115495	2003-01-21 03:50:00	> that could be half your problem, along with the other three halves. Sounds like your holiday did you a lot of good robo... you're back on form again. :D > The deleted fast finds were only the shortcuts so went into Control Panel/Fastfind and checked 'Cancel all future updates' - hope that is what is meant by turning it off. > I am sure this wasn't on my system up to a few months ago so don't know where Fastfind came from although have downloaded some patches for win95. FastFind is part of Office and Windows so it wouldn't be something that just "appeared". Like robo said, it's unnecessary and although deleting the shortcuts from your Start menu will prevent it running when you start your PC it is best removed altogether. Do that in Control Panel under FastFind or if it isn't in there and you have Office, do it in the Add/Remove Components (or whatever it is). FastFind won't have anything to do with the problems you originally complained about but it will make other things run smoother.	Susan B (19)
115496	2003-01-23 02:14:00	Looks like you're right SB. Deleted FF and while things were ok yesterday, the comp wouldn't start for 3 hours today and then crashed twice. Wrote this on the third reboot. Wonder if doing a QuickRestore to put things back the way they were when I bought the comp 6 years ago would help, but it means having to download browsers and other stuff again. Would this help if bad drive has 'bad sectors'? Thanks anyway for all the comments,	georgea (3045)
115497	2003-01-23 02:18:00	A reinstall will not correct bad sectors, they are physical problems on your hard disk. A reformat could be helpful though. Do you have bad sectors? Why wouldn't the computer start for 3 hours? What error messages were you getting?	roofus (483)
115498	2003-01-23 02:22:00	If your Hard Drive is reporting "bad sectors" then your problem may well be drive related. I have had 2 drives die in this manner in the past year, with one being 3 months old. I have other drives 6 years old still going fine. To be safe, backup all your important data.	godfather (25)
115499	2003-01-23 03:36:00	It does sound a bit like your hard drive is on its last legs -- the one at work did things like that just before it died. If it were me I'd be getting a new one pretty smartly.	Susan B (19)
115500	2003-01-23 18:08:00	No errors or bad sectors reported - screen just goes black and disk activity stops. When I power on everything starts except disk - it crashed just after I sent my last message. Tried power about 10 times in the 3 hours before it somehow decides to start at that time. It then says I did not shut down properly and away we go again with scandisk. Started again last night, went to safe mode, did complete scandisk and defrag, so things seem ok in safe mode. Is it possible to make new connection to ISP so I can get on the net via safe mode? Thanks again.	georgea (3045)
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