Hello Nancy, Saturday, May 7, 2005, 4:07:46 PM, you wrote: NT> Barry, NT> I was having some problems earlier and my ISP installed this NT> "AdAware" for me... He did tell me to run it once in a while, but NT> until you mentioned it, I forgot about it... The free version does rely on the user to remember - now that you have, it would be a good idea to update it and then run a scan. NT> I was running Norton's scan, but had to Pause it, as I had to NT> leave the house...(I haven't gotten back to it, to see if it would NT> go right on from where it left off...) But, after scanning some NT> 180,000+ files, it hadn't found anything amiss...But it about took NT> FOREVER!! and, as I said, I had to leave... Norton is pretty slow at the best of times and you could have left it running whilst you were out then when you got back it would either show a clean system or have stopped at the detection of a virus. I think you can set it to auto-clean and carry on but not being a Norton user I'm nor sure of that. You do need to run a complete scan though, same as AdAware. NT> I also tried this "defrag"... it said something about that it NT> couldn't really do a "good" job, because it needed "15%" of NT> "something"... and I only had "14%" of that "something"...... NT> SPACE??? I don't exactly remember what it was, that I was NT> "missing".... it also said I had to delete some files to get the NT> needed "something"... but I would have NO IDEA of what to delete! Now this is unusual as you have plenty of free space on your Hard Drive from the figures below ( presumably you got these from the My Computer icon and getting the properties of the drive ? ). When you ran it you should have got a display showing the used space with blue, red, yellow and white areas. The white parts show the free space you have - how much white area does it show and how much of the display is red ?? NT> I did check out my un-used space on my computer....Computer has a NT> 144GB capacity, I'm using 9.69GB, and the Un-used is 134GB.... I NT> guess I would have thought I was using more than that, I have a NT> bunch of clip-art installed.... Clip-art isn't that much of a space hog and you'd need hundreds of thousands of files to even begin to make a dent in that 144Gb of space <lol> NT> Sorry.... but I am not really good at this part of computing.... NT> (I'm not very mechanically minded, either!..LOL) That's OK - you don't have to be a technical guru to work a PC, just like you don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car :-) Lets take things one step at a time and see if we can get to the bottom of this. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Barry. As far as running the AdAware, it confused me when I got there... too much I didn't know...or couldn't remember!! I guess it's not FAST!!! and it did not begin again where it had left off, either!! I guess I'm just gonna have to pick a time (long time!!! LOL) when I don't have to be on the computer! I did get those figures off the My computer icon, properties....When I got to "defrag" the box said all this about the "14% and the 15%" I had never run into that before... so I didn't know what to do with it! What I got off the Properties was Pink and blue.... I didn't see any red, yellow or white....was that what the "defrag" was supposed to show me? Someone, Carolyn I think, said to run "Scan Disc".... I couldn't find anything with that name... it mentioned " Disc Cleanup" and "Disc Defragmenter".....but didn't see anything about Scan disc...I remember doing that on my Win98se... seems it was a LOT easier to find....Is Disc cleanup and Scan disc one and the same thing? Whew.... this computer house-keeping is worse than "House" housekeeping (perhaps I know more about the latter than the former!!) Thanks! NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry" <barry@yobunny.co.uk> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: Re[4]: [SR-NEWBIE] Re: slowdown....internet pages... Hello Nancy, Saturday, May 7, 2005, 4:07:46 PM, you wrote: NT> Barry, NT> I was having some problems earlier and my ISP installed this NT> "AdAware" for me... He did tell me to run it once in a while, but NT> until you mentioned it, I forgot about it... The free version does rely on the user to remember - now that you have, it would be a good idea to update it and then run a scan. NT> I was running Norton's scan, but had to Pause it, as I had to NT> leave the house...(I haven't gotten back to it, to see if it would NT> go right on from where it left off...) But, after scanning some NT> 180,000+ files, it hadn't found anything amiss...But it about took NT> FOREVER!! and, as I said, I had to leave... Norton is pretty slow at the best of times and you could have left it running whilst you were out then when you got back it would either show a clean system or have stopped at the detection of a virus. I think you can set it to auto-clean and carry on but not being a Norton user I'm nor sure of that. You do need to run a complete scan though, same as AdAware. NT> I also tried this "defrag"... it said something about that it NT> couldn't really do a "good" job, because it needed "15%" of NT> "something"... and I only had "14%" of that "something"...... NT> SPACE??? I don't exactly remember what it was, that I was NT> "missing".... it also said I had to delete some files to get the NT> needed "something"... but I would have NO IDEA of what to delete! Now this is unusual as you have plenty of free space on your Hard Drive from the figures below ( presumably you got these from the My Computer icon and getting the properties of the drive ? ). When you ran it you should have got a display showing the used space with blue, red, yellow and white areas. The white parts show the free space you have - how much white area does it show and how much of the display is red ?? NT> I did check out my un-used space on my computer....Computer has a NT> 144GB capacity, I'm using 9.69GB, and the Un-used is 134GB.... I NT> guess I would have thought I was using more than that, I have a NT> bunch of clip-art installed.... Clip-art isn't that much of a space hog and you'd need hundreds of thousands of files to even begin to make a dent in that 144Gb of space <lol> NT> Sorry.... but I am not really good at this part of computing.... NT> (I'm not very mechanically minded, either!..LOL) That's OK - you don't have to be a technical guru to work a PC, just like you don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car :-) Lets take things one step at a time and see if we can get to the bottom of this. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== Keep informed of the latest news and new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the weekly RootsWeb Review. To subscribe, start here: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx