Strange behaviour

Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer
started hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular
directory. The machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is
having problems, so I ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now
those files are fine, and the entire machine seems to be running
noticeably faster. What happened?
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"Chuck" wrote in message
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Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it more
often : )

Haggis wrote:
"Chuck" wrote in message
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Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it more
often : )



I run it all the time in standard mode. I'm forced to! Win98 locks at
least once a day and I all I can do to recover is press the reset
button. When it reboots it runs scandisk for me. :-(
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Haggis wrote:
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Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer started
hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular directory. The
machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is having problems, so I
ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now those files are fine, and
the entire machine seems to be running noticeably faster. What happened?
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scandisk must have repaired some crosslinked files for you ...(run it
more often : )

I run it all the time in standard mode. I'm forced to! Win98 locks at
least once a day and I all I can do to recover is press the reset button.
When it reboots it runs scandisk for me. :-(
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do you scan for malware also?

http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

it might be time to backup and do a fresh install (i used to do it once a
year with win98 , keeps the windows folder from growing and growing)

Take Out the Trash (#4)
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm
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Chuck wrote:
Anyone got an explanation for this? Last weekend windows explorer
started hanging any time I right-clicked a file in a particular
directory. The machine is 6 years old so I figured maybe the HD is
having problems, so I ran scandisk using the "thorough" option. Now
those files are fine, and the entire machine seems to be running
noticeably faster. What happened?

Haggis wrote:


do you scan for malware also?


At least once a week. Though I have to say that since installing
teatimer (part of the new SpyBot S&D) I haven't had a single piece of
malware install itself and it's been about 3 months now. I used to find
something new installed every other day.

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PA Bear wrote:
Take Out the Trash (#4)
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm

Doesn't the "Disk Cleanup" program do all this automatically? It was one
of the pleasant surprises I remember finding when I first upgraded to W98.

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Delete Temporary Internet Files using Disk Cleanup then do so using IE
ToolsInternet OptionsGeneral (accepting the option to delete all offline
content). I think you'll be surprised.
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MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

Chuck wrote:
PA Bear wrote:
Take Out the Trash (#4)
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm

Doesn't the "Disk Cleanup" program do all this automatically? It was one
of the pleasant surprises I remember finding when I first upgraded to W98.