YEP.....them PC's can be nasty nasty nasty.....spent 4 hours last friday night trying to get my harddrive back online.  Downloaded a new video driver from NVIDIA and the PC wouldn't reboot during the install process - somehow it did not dismount the drive correctly so it lost its drive information.....thank goodness for Partition Magic and Drive Image

[QUOTE=Reds82CE] YEP.....them PC's can be nasty nasty nasty.....spent 4 hours last friday night trying to get my harddrive back online.  Downloaded a new video driver from NVIDIA and the PC wouldn't reboot during the install process - somehow it did not dismount the drive correctly so it lost its drive information.....thank goodness for Partition Magic and Drive Image[/QUOTE]

HUH?!?!
That sounds nasty, dude....whut th' heck are ya doin with that thang?

always lusting for the infinite ...... which usually gets me into trouble

If you guys are still using I.E. or Netscape, dump it ASAP. I went to Firefox by Mozilla and have not had one issue since. Runs like a champ and never gets any viruses,plus I run Norton Internet Security as well. Mozilla has two browsers Firefox which looks like Internet Exploder and Mozilla which looks like Netscape. Silver6938943.8888888889

Been lookin into that very thing....

I am the director of IT for the 4th largest mobil distributor in the USA...

My advice is to FIRST ... backup backup backup....

secon re-format....make certain you have (or have access to)

al the software you'll need to re-install.

after weeks of repairing and duct-tape you'll stll generally have winblows isues.

BTW I advise people to NOT use IE ..use firefox..

and do NOT use outlook.. use thunderbird.

that's my take.. and I manage 500 or more PC's and servers.

 

I also notice this forum runs on a "ms" server...

[QUOTE=timgman]

I am the director of IT for the 4th largest mobil distributor in the USA...

My advice is to FIRST ... backup backup backup....

secon re-format....make certain you have (or have access to)

al the software you'll need to re-install.

after weeks of repairing and duct-tape you'll stll generally have winblows isues.

BTW I advise people to NOT use IE ..use firefox..

and do NOT use outlook.. use thunderbird.

that's my take.. and I manage 500 or more PC's and servers.

 

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Backups are always good.

Formatting and reinstalling isn't the way to go. Joel had to have someone do that before, so I don't think he'd be up for that himself. Of course, if he just wanted to throw money at the problem...

Using another browser is a good option to try, but he is on dial-up, so a 10 MB is a pretty slow 0-60 time.

Nothing wrong with Outlook (or Thunderbird), more of a preference call there - mail client won't cause this problem.

Joel - I'd still download mozilla (let it go overnight) and see if that fixes your problem. or I can burn you a CD and mail it. Let me know.

Back up and install Norton!

[QUOTE=greypoupon69]Back up and install Norton! [/QUOTE]

I agree on the Norton, but get the internet security version. My kids had there PC some infested with stuff it took Norton about 4-5 passes of scans to clean it up. If you run XP and install Norton be sure to turn off the XP firewall and use Norton's. The anti-spam feature is worth the price alone. There are also some freeware registry programs that will look at your registry and do a little housekeeping there too.

Also get SPYBOT and AD-AWERE and run them weekly