Yet more PC strife.....

[sirius]

Right gals n girls, another quezzy from uncle sirius.....

Since reinstalling windows XP over the top of my corrupted one last week (and all my programs again), for some reason ANY file operation on the c: drive partition is flakey. Ie if I try and open an image file it hangs the program and you have to do the three finger shuffle to get out of it......copy is ok, delete hangs the computer totally.
Also my mouse pointer is finding 'sticky' points on the screen where it drags rather than skirts across - sort of like theres splodge of glue in some areas, its not the same places every time though.

Any ideas what the score is here?/.




Cheers again,

Sirius.

[johns_ar]

id say u need to give ur ball a clean bud

mouse ball that is, and the wheel things too

my pc hangs when jumping from one file to another too, deleting is slow as

but then its 6yr old

[turpieaj]

Do an FDISK and start again..Never had any probs with doing that

[sirius]

is an FDISK a full format? lol. Just flatten my pc again?

Andy, it aint the mouse bud! For a start it aint got no ball!! lol.
Maybe the USB port overheating or sommet I suppose, my last mouse died that way I think. Sugar, I really liked this mouse too.

ta,

Sirius.

[The Frog Meister]

you installation is not good... back up back up back up

and place a list of alll the hardware you have.. There might be some known conflicts... ie new hadware sitting with legacy that do not like each other!!! and things like that

[sirius]

Is there an easy way to 'snapshot' all your devices in a list, cos Id post 'em here if anyone knows about this conflict stuff.

It looks like Ill have to try and back up onto cd's via a netwok cable onto Cd's because the CDRW drive is on my brothers machine........he has no hard disk real estate to move everything accross. Im assuming a low cd burn speed is best (even though it has buffer prevention) perhaps about 6x?

This is a job for the weekend (yes another weekend fannying about with my 'puter).

I dunno what it is, perhaps its all the software I load on or something. Perhaps Ive a virus I keep inadvertantly installing, although the AVG didnt spot anything.

I did a system restore point when I reinstalled last week, so I may try that to cure the immediate problem of sticky points and hanging - then back up this weekend.

Cheers

Sirius.

[johns_ar]

lol sounds to me mate is that u got a fancy set up there and its causing shit for ya

just have ur pc as stand alone....after u have formatted and re-installed xp fresh

[sirius]

My pc aint a fancy one........perhaps thats why it is? lol

I have to have it networked to get internet access....and access to a huge Reason Refil archive! ..

Sirius.

[johns_ar]

fair play

but can u not just get internet on ur pc?