Of course it is 'Your Highness', point well taken!
Hopefully you enjoy laughing.
Who cares about the issues anyway, right?
Still snowing up north?
We are thawed out by now.
Cheers,

Harry.


"Heather" wrote in message
...
Good Lord, you two.....(Corday & Har Har).......your spelling is
atrocious!!!!

I am laughing actually, because one of my fellow genealogy Moderators in
the UK couldn't figure out what someone meant in a text message. Hey,
easy if you say
it out loud.

Anyway......the word is "heuristic" and for Har Har......it is
"worthiness".

The Queen of English

"Corday" wrote in message
...
I guess if Scandisc isn't working, he can't do a hiristute(I can't spell
it)
scan. A third party program would work to check every sector of the
harddisc.
If it's bad, a replacement is cheap compared to a new computer but a nice
new
Vista or Leopard unit would make a nice birthday present.
--
I mastered Wordstar graphics!


"webster72n" wrote:


As an after thought, did you check your drive for worthynes (health)?
If so, go ahead with whatever you decide, otherwise I suggest you do it
first.

Harry.


"Milt" wrote in message
...
webster72n,

System Restore is the first thing I tried. No help there. And, yes, if
I
can
do it the "easy way" it's probably worth trying before doing a
complete
reinstall. But if necessary I will. I've got all the disks. I'd just
rather
save the time if I can.

Thanks,
Milt

"webster72n" wrote:


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Milt confirmed that :-

In Safe Mode both Defrag and Scandisk hang up.
Same from floppy.

Well, only Scandisk will run from the floppy. Defrag will only run
in
Windows. However if Scandisk hangs in Real Mode DOS (i.e. via the
floppy)
then by definition, you've totally eliminated WinMe as being the
prime
suspect and you problems are elsewhere - most likely your hard
disk.

In fact, if it really does hang in RM DOS, then you won't be able
to
'reinstall' or even 'clean install'. WinMe won't install until it
is
happy with the quality of the hard drive. The first thing it does
before
installing the OS is to perform a Scandisk.

BTW - depending on the size of the HDD, both Scandisk and Defrag
can
take
up to several hours complete, especially if you run full scandisk.
To
use the term 'sluggish' really wants some qualification.

OTOH - if you prefer to do it your own way (i.e. re-install WinMe
over
itself) then I wish you well.

Looks like a bit of confusion here, doesn't it?.....
Obviously the OP is looking for an easy way out and SR is not
applicable,
or
is it?


Mart


"Milt" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the replies.

In Safe Mode both Defrag and Scandisk hang up. Same from floppy.
Other
programs are slugish too. And yes, I'm running both IE 6 and WMP
9.

I think I'll try a reinstall of ME ovr itself though. If I screw
up,
I'll
have to start over and reload everything. But I'd have to do that
anyhow.
And
yes, I know to back up data and doc's before I start.

I think I'll wait another day and see if anyone has any other
comments
before I do it though.

Milt

"Milt" wrote:

Is it possible to do a repair reinstll of ME? I've read that it
is
and
I've
read that it isn't. I'm having a problem with functions such as
Defrag.
and
Scandisk hanging up and freezing the computer.

Milt