A Windows 98 & ME forum. Win98banter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » Win98banter forum » Windows ME » General
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Screen freeze while copyng large group of files



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old February 15th 06, 03:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message




Thanks for the info.

My ME computer haa IE 5.5, in my W98SE computer (where I know the
history) I installed IE 5.01SP2, it later reported IE 5.5 installed, I
dunno. In any event, neither has IE 6.



IE5 and W9x are not affected by the delete/copy hang issue which is another
subject not to be confused with this thread, and since you have IE5 it is not
your problem; however if interested you can read about the W9x IE6x issue he
http://tinyurl.com/dxlf2

The My Documents folder that was mentioned to you in the W98 forum is a
different issue too which is related to slow opening folders, but that does not
apply to your specific problem either, however as always if you have more than
a total of 100 folders/subfolders within it then it's recommended to remove
them elsewhere and keep that folder under 75.


I'm new to this ng so please explain:
" that in almost every way ME is
superior to 98SE"



imho, saying WME is superior is only a personal opinion and not a world widely
held truth; but I certainly respect those that feel ME is superior and I won't
debate the issue. There have been countless threads and discussion back and
forth about this over the years with the pro's and con's of each, and each side
had some good reading. I like WME and always have respected its effort and
release, but I personally prefer W98SE over ME though, and anytime I've
ever used ME for my own use I certainly shut off System Restore and File
Protection for my own reasons which simply were I always insist on using Backup
Partition Imaging software for comprehensive restoring control rather than SR
or anything else for that matter ..but that's just my preference, but again I
respect those that like to use SR. I do the same thing on WXP is to turn off
its Restore feature.

I had once saved a (by now older) website article about others not liking WME
very much, and will post that article just for general purpose only; but again
I am not going to debate the issue on way or the other.
http://tinyurl.com/e4j6c

Rick


Thanks for the data, Rick.

The webpage at that link is strange. It looks (Firefox here) like a html page with
all the code showing and it saves as a text file. I hope I can salvage the text in
it.

Comment?

MS
  #12  
Old February 15th 06, 09:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

"ms" wrote in message



Thanks for the data, Rick.

The webpage at that link is strange. It looks (Firefox here) like a html
page with all the code showing and it saves as a text file. I hope I can
salvage the text in it.


Before I get to the mht extensions answer I see in my wme folder I had
another article which I should of posted first which was a prelude to the
second one.

WindowsME informational articles - winmag.com (August 2000)
http://tinyurl.com/cdn34
&
What's Wrong With Windows ME article recap - winmag.com (March 2001)
http://tinyurl.com/e4j6c


Comment?


Okay, I originally saved each set of original webpages as a single mht
extension webpage file back in 2002. mht extension files are really Very
useful when saving webpages for numerous reasons, and I have always used
them, and as well when I can, I will take the whole article even if it's 18
pages long as one of them was, and save them as a printable style (no ads,
etc) ..and save it all as 'one' viewable allinone webpage viewable
offline - and that's what I did here and am friendly and temporally serving
the files off my website just for this post - by all means save them to
your own computer to keep.

Firefox however won't render them unless you install the plugin for it
which you can download that plugin he
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/d...n-firefox.html

If you don't want to bother with a plugin for Firefox then here's the
original article from where I got it which amazingly I see it's still up,
but you will have to click though the 'Next' button at the bottom of each
page to be able to read each successive page to the articles, whereas as
the mht's files I did are 1 file each containing All the pages within its
articles in one with no advertisements etc.. and you can read it all
offline anytime you want. Anyway, the original links a

WindowsME - winmag.com (August 2000)
http://www.winmag.com/windows/winme/final/default.htm
&
What's Wrong With Windows ME - winmag.com (March 2001)
http://www.winmag.com/windows/winme/...rm/default.htm

In perspective though realize I'm just posting these as an old fyi about
someone else's articles - not mine. Also keep in mind that these articles
are 5 years old and so some things have now been superceded like WMP9 for
WMP7 and IE6 for IE5, etc.. and who knows what else has changed for the
good - which hopefully all of it did.

Also please understand just because I have pointed out these articles, does
not mean I am against WME in any way, thank you. WME is a fine OS.

Rick


MS


















  #13  
Old February 15th 06, 09:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

"ms" wrote in message

This is a Dell 700 MHZ with a Celeron chipset, 128 MB RAM and ME.

Offline, when I copy a large group (10 files each 2-4 MB) of data files


As compared to what I originally thought you meant in the W98 forum
copying large quanties of files you meant 100's of MB's - but are
you actually saying here that you are copying only 10 files of which all of
them only equaling only 2 or 4 MB? ..even if you meant 10x 2-4mb that
only equals 20-40 MB and that is Not a large group at all and really
is an easy piece of cake and should copy in just seconds.

from a CD to a folder on the hard drive, the computer starts copying,
then freezes, have to shut off and cold boot. This has happened several
times, no problem on smaller groups of files, just large ones.


As I eluded to in the W98 forum - Does this happen when copying only from
the CD or can you copy files from one folder to another on your HD
without a problem - or is it just that CD or any CD? If it's just the CD
it may mean something as simple as one of your computers cdrom's maybe
reads the cd just fine, but your other computer having a entirely different
cdrom that may have problems reading the CD in question and hang on that
particular portion of files you are copying, etc.. or it could be something
else but without you giving more specific info on variations of what you've
done testing we can only speculate with the little info you've given so
far, thank you.

This does not happen on my slower W98SE computer with less RAM.

Is this likely caused by the Windows ME OS?


WME or any computer should have no problem with copying 10 little files
only equaling 40 MB of data - it's a blink of an eye easy!
(you really meant 10 files all only equalling 40MB right?)

Please test it again giving more and specific information on different
variations of what you are copying, and by all means also copy it from the
HD folder to folder too and not just the CD - and by doing so we can get a
more detailed and clearer picture of the problem.

Thank you,

Rick


TIA

MS










  #14  
Old February 16th 06, 11:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files


"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message
...
"ms" wrote in message

This is a Dell 700 MHZ with a Celeron chipset, 128 MB RAM and ME.

Offline, when I copy a large group (10 files each 2-4 MB) of data files


As compared to what I originally thought you meant in the W98 forum
copying large quanties of files you meant 100's of MB's - but are
you actually saying here that you are copying only 10 files of which all
of
them only equaling only 2 or 4 MB? ..even if you meant 10x 2-4mb that
only equals 20-40 MB and that is Not a large group at all and really
is an easy piece of cake and should copy in just seconds.


Ah. Yes. Not the issue I was addressing at all, that involves ca. 500 +
files.


Shane


  #15  
Old February 16th 06, 05:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message


This is a Dell 700 MHZ with a Celeron chipset, 128 MB RAM and ME.

Offline, when I copy a large group (10 files each 2-4 MB) of data files



As compared to what I originally thought you meant in the W98 forum
copying large quanties of files you meant 100's of MB's - but are
you actually saying here that you are copying only 10 files of which all of
them only equaling only 2 or 4 MB? ..even if you meant 10x 2-4mb that
only equals 20-40 MB and that is Not a large group at all and really
is an easy piece of cake and should copy in just seconds.


from a CD to a folder on the hard drive, the computer starts copying,
then freezes, have to shut off and cold boot. This has happened several
times, no problem on smaller groups of files, just large ones.



As I eluded to in the W98 forum - Does this happen when copying only from
the CD or can you copy files from one folder to another on your HD
without a problem - or is it just that CD or any CD? If it's just the CD
it may mean something as simple as one of your computers cdrom's maybe
reads the cd just fine, but your other computer having a entirely different
cdrom that may have problems reading the CD in question and hang on that
particular portion of files you are copying, etc.. or it could be something
else but without you giving more specific info on variations of what you've
done testing we can only speculate with the little info you've given so
far, thank you.


This does not happen on my slower W98SE computer with less RAM.

Is this likely caused by the Windows ME OS?



WME or any computer should have no problem with copying 10 little files
only equaling 40 MB of data - it's a blink of an eye easy!
(you really meant 10 files all only equalling 40MB right?)

Please test it again giving more and specific information on different
variations of what you are copying, and by all means also copy it from the
HD folder to folder too and not just the CD - and by doing so we can get a
more detailed and clearer picture of the problem.

Thank you,

Rick


TIA

MS



Yes, it was just copying from the CD (writen on my P166) to the hard drive folder
on my Dell with ME. Too many other things going on now, so I will live with it. At
least, now I better understand it.

Thanks for the info, Rick.

MS
  #16  
Old February 16th 06, 05:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message


This is a Dell 700 MHZ with a Celeron chipset, 128 MB RAM and ME.

Offline, when I copy a large group (10 files each 2-4 MB) of data files



Forgot to add, no problem copying folder to folder on the hard drive in ME.

MS
  #17  
Old February 16th 06, 05:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message




Thanks for the data, Rick.

The webpage at that link is strange. It looks (Firefox here) like a html
page with all the code showing and it saves as a text file. I hope I can
salvage the text in it.



Before I get to the mht extensions answer I see in my wme folder I had
another article which I should of posted first which was a prelude to the
second one.

WindowsME informational articles - winmag.com (August 2000)
http://tinyurl.com/cdn34
&
What's Wrong With Windows ME article recap - winmag.com (March 2001)
http://tinyurl.com/e4j6c


Comment?



Okay, I originally saved each set of original webpages as a single mht
extension webpage file back in 2002. mht extension files are really Very
useful when saving webpages for numerous reasons, and I have always used
them, and as well when I can, I will take the whole article even if it's 18
pages long as one of them was, and save them as a printable style (no ads,
etc) ..and save it all as 'one' viewable allinone webpage viewable
offline - and that's what I did here and am friendly and temporally serving
the files off my website just for this post - by all means save them to
your own computer to keep.

Firefox however won't render them unless you install the plugin for it
which you can download that plugin he
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/d...n-firefox.html

If you don't want to bother with a plugin for Firefox then here's the
original article from where I got it which amazingly I see it's still up,
but you will have to click though the 'Next' button at the bottom of each
page to be able to read each successive page to the articles, whereas as
the mht's files I did are 1 file each containing All the pages within its
articles in one with no advertisements etc.. and you can read it all
offline anytime you want. Anyway, the original links a

WindowsME - winmag.com (August 2000)
http://www.winmag.com/windows/winme/final/default.htm
&
What's Wrong With Windows ME - winmag.com (March 2001)
http://www.winmag.com/windows/winme/...rm/default.htm

In perspective though realize I'm just posting these as an old fyi about
someone else's articles - not mine. Also keep in mind that these articles
are 5 years old and so some things have now been superceded like WMP9 for
WMP7 and IE6 for IE5, etc.. and who knows what else has changed for the
good - which hopefully all of it did.

Also please understand just because I have pointed out these articles, does
not mean I am against WME in any way, thank you. WME is a fine OS.

Rick


MS



Lots of good info in those articles. I was able to save the original text by
renaming the saved file *.html, then converting to text, then a cleanup util to
take out excess spaces, then my text editor to remove leftover code.

MS
  #18  
Old February 16th 06, 09:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

"ms" wrote in message


Forgot to add, no problem copying folder to folder on the hard drive in
ME.


You are saying that if you copy from folder to folder on the hard drive
it's fine then?

If yes, then the problem is with the cd itself or the cdrom reading it.

yes?

Rick


MS







  #19  
Old February 17th 06, 01:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message



Forgot to add, no problem copying folder to folder on the hard drive in
ME.



You are saying that if you copy from folder to folder on the hard drive
it's fine then?

If yes, then the problem is with the cd itself or the cdrom reading it.

yes?

Rick

Thanks for defining that, so it is the CD drive.

MS
  #20  
Old February 17th 06, 01:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"ms" wrote in message



Forgot to add, no problem copying folder to folder on the hard drive in
ME.



You are saying that if you copy from folder to folder on the hard drive
it's fine then?

If yes, then the problem is with the cd itself or the cdrom reading it.

yes?

Rick


MS


Rick, this is a different question. In one of the links you gave me, Fred Langa
said he DELETED WinME and installed in it's place W98SE. Normally, he is very
careful with wording in his articles.

Is it really that simple? W98SE wants to be uninstalled, AFAIK.

Also, this is a 9 year old 700 MHZ Dell, do they do typically do anything nasty to
cause trouble doing the above?

Thanks,

MS
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Finding total number of Folders and Files on C: drive PSRumbagh General 36 August 12th 05 04:57 AM
system slow down when copying large number of files General 4 July 3rd 05 03:06 PM
Deleting Files Peter General 2 June 21st 04 09:07 PM
Question about C:\Windows\Temp files JR Berry General 6 June 7th 04 09:32 PM
Display too large for monitor screen David Monitors & Displays 5 June 4th 04 02:13 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:57 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 Win98banter.
The comments are property of their posters.