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| 76292 | 2002-09-04 23:47:00 | Sounds more like a virus to me. than power defrag. I can assure you that powerdefrag will not have caused this problem, some other programme has changed your network settings, but it is not powedefrag. Goto Networks in control panel, and have a look what is your "primary network logon" change it, to the other one avaliable and reset your computer, then you should see your login box come up when you come onto your computer, this should also fix your problem with the dial up settings |
roofus (483) | ||
| 76293 | 2002-09-05 02:33:00 | Thank you for the suggestion Roofus. I have indeed already done all that you suggest under the guidance of my vendor's help desk, unfortunately all to no avail..... I still think Powerdefrag was the culprit. You see I started the utility, ran it for maybe 15 minutes while I sat and watched it, then shut it down to use the puter. That is when the problems showed up. I doubt a virus is present since I have all the virus protection I can load on already in place.......I have actually discovered a few other changes this morning too - like new versions of spreadsheets being replaced with older versions etc...nothing drastic, just annoying. The really annoying bit is having to type in my ISP access code every time I connect. THAT I would really like to fix! To all who have replied to this query, my thanks.....:) |
hukcomse (1516) | ||
| 76294 | 2002-09-05 03:23:00 | Thats a slightly more complete story now. Someone DID do something to the computer while powerdefrag was running - YOU!! When you consider what actually happens with files when defragging, its perhaps not surprising it played up when you interrupted its run.... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 76295 | 2002-09-05 05:55:00 | I beg to differ; if the defragger was properly written, then it would exit gracefully by writing the last amount of data in RAM back to the hard drive, referencing it in the allocation table and then closing itself. It wouldn't just let itself be killed and who cares what happens with the hard drive data residing in RAM. I have to say I'm always rather dubious about using defraggers which have not a lot of history behind them .... I mean, I know the built in defraggers in Windows ain't that fast, but at least there's less possibility of something going wrong. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 76296 | 2002-09-05 06:23:00 | Powerdefrag is THE windows defragger. It just runs it before windows has fully loaded, like in SAFE MODE but better. How did you shut the program down. The proper way or did you force it? |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 76297 | 2002-09-05 07:46:00 | Exactly . A defragmentation programme is doing major operations on the system . There are enough things which can go wrong that it should be the only programme running . If Windows is running, it appears that these days it can be wanting to talk to the world (or Redmond) without any human intervention . But once you have started a defragger going, you should be very careful about how you go about stopping it . When you have your car in for an oil change, you don't expect tio be able to go back to the garage when the old oil has been drained and insist on taking the car out for a bit of shopping you forgot, then bring it back for the new oill to be put in . That would be a Bad Idea . A defrag of your disk is a comparable maintenance job . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 76298 | 2002-09-05 09:16:00 | I disagree with the comments about been carefull about the way you stop a defragger. and agree with antmanz description of how a defragger works, as that is how it works! Here (support.microsoft.com) or here (support.microsoft.com) or here (support.microsoft.com) Sometimes you must stand outside the square to see the square as for your new problems occuring, they still sound like a virus to me |
roofus (483) | ||
| 76299 | 2002-09-05 11:36:00 | No - try a trojan | Merlin (503) | ||
| 76300 | 2002-09-05 11:39:00 | Yes i was thinking a trojan also, but didn't want to confuse anyone, but a trojan will be the most likely cause, and could also be the reason why the virus scanner has picked it up. | roofus (483) | ||
| 76301 | 2002-09-06 23:52:00 | OK, this is getting interesting. When I shut Powerdefrag down, I used the stop box displayed - must be there for a reason! I have interrupted other defrag programs before (Windows defrag and Norton Speeddisk) and have never had a problem - apart from having to start again from square one.....! More on this though. When I finally DID allow Powerdefrag to run right through, with NO interruptions, it STILL changed things, again! After the interrupted run, I repaired the changes that I found. After the complete run I was unable to repair some of the changes made. The technicians still have the machine in the shop.....anyway, whatever happened I don't know.......from now on I use the safe mode approach......:) |
hukcomse (1516) | ||
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