I see Glee & especially Blanton have arrived with poignant comments &
questions. I'll keep an eye out but don't want to spoil the broth.

It isn't what I thought, if a large delete doesn't precede each
occurrence. Also, a reboot would make all well.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Stan Hilliard" wrote in
message ...
| On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:54:27 -0400, "PCR" wrote:
|
| Do you do large deletes in Explorer before you experience these
delays?
| It is a flaw that some have experienced after upgrading to IE6, that
| large deletes using Explorer may cause subsequent delay to perform
any
| Explorer task, including clicking the START button. The task gets
done,
| & a reboot will eliminate further delays, until the next large
delete.
|
| Best solution may be to do such deletes in a Windows DOS box.
| PCR
|
| While I was copying partitions I had my two HDDs plus the would-be new
| HDD cabled up.Halfway through I stopped and deleted some files from a
| partition with a drive letter that does not exist now that I am down
| to two HDDs. (I don't remember the size but it could have been a
| folder full.)
|
| But the deleted files were still in the recycle bin when I switched
| drives. I could not remove them from the recycle bin until I deleted
| another file and then removed them all.
|
| Another problem: I can't access web pages on the Internet with IE6,
| but I can use my email program (Pegasus) and my news reader (Agent)
|
| I don't know if this indicates anything, but when I [cntl][alt][del]
| right after boot-up, there is only one thing running -- explorer.
|
| Stan Hilliard
|
| =========
|
| "Stan Hilliard" wrote in
| message ...
| | On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:59:17 -0500, Stan Hilliard
| | wrote:
| |
| | On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:51:50 -0500, Stan Hilliard
| | wrote:
| |
| | I replaced my 20 G HDD with a 80 G HDD. I copied the partitions
from
| | the old to the new drive with Partition Magic version 6.
| |
| | skipping a few steps
| |
| | 1) After changing drives, it took 8-10 minutes to boot off the
new
| | drive.
| |
| | 2) The Partition magic "Partitioninfo" utility does not find any
| | errors with the C: partition. However, Partition Magic "Check for
| | errors" on drive C: gave this message:
| |
| | Error - 993. Partition contains open files. Use the operating
system
| | check utility.
| |
| | 3) Scandisk showed about 15 files with this message: (example)
| |
| |
C:\Windows\desktop\hhser~1\develo~1\software\sof twa~2xx&\helpfo~1'
| | folder cannot be opened because its MS-DOS name, including the
names
| | of any folders it is in, is larger than 66 characters.
| |
| | Most of these errors involved files in \Windows\ and \Program
| Files\.
| |
| | By the way, Scandisk does not have any problem with those same
paths
| | on my old drive.
| |
| | So I seem to have two problems.
| | 1) Extremely slow performance, and
| | 2) the problem with paths.
| |
| | What are these problems and how can I correct them.
| |
| | Sincerely, Stan Hilliard
| |
| | I have learned that the reason that scandisk did not find long DOS
| | paths on my old drive but did on the new drive is not due to the
| | difference in drives.
| |
| | With the new drive, I unchecked Scandisk's "automatically fix
errors"
| | checkbox, which apparently caused it to do more checking or
| reporting.
| | With "automatically fix errors" checked, Scandisk does not notice
| the
| | long DOS paths.
| |
| | Actually, this helped me to discover and fix the cause of a
long-term
| | problem.
| |
| | I have changed the new drive's jumper from "cable select" to
master
| | (like the old drive was). That might have improved performance,
but
| | the problem is not steady.
| |
| | I still have the performance problem. The PC now performs at
| | normal/fast speed for a while and then it will freeze up for 20
| | seconds to 1 minute or more. One place that this happens is in the
| | start menu, where there is sometimes long delays in moving the
focus
| | to a new item, and sometimes not!
| |
| | Information:
| | The new HDD is a Seagate 80 G ATA100.
| | The old HDD is/was an IBM 20 G ATA 100.
| |
| | I now don't think that the problem is slow reading of data on the
new
| | drive. This because my new-mail folder (using Pegasus) containing
| | 1,300 messages loads as fast as it ever did. That data is on
another
| | partition (E on the same drive. However, as I up the Internet I
got
| | this message:
| |
| | "Disk write error
| | Unable to write to drive C:
| | Data or files may be lost"
| |
| | I then copied a text file from E: to C:. It copied but it had one
of
| | those 1 minute delays. Another delay when I deleted it from C:
| |
| | Here is more information that I have discovered:
| |
| | If I [cntl][alt][del] right after boot-up, there is only ONE thing
in
| | the window -- explorer.
| |
| | The performance symptom is that Windows 98SE frequently will freeze
| | for 20 seconds to a minute doing simple things like selecting an
item
| | from the start menu. It takes that long just to change focus from
one
| | menu item to another. These delays occur intermittently. When they
| | happen I can move the mouse cursor, but the focus doesn't move to
the
| | item. The same thing happens selecting desktop icons -- sometimes
it
| | works immediately and sometimes the long delay.
| |
| | Stan Hilliard
|
|