It is the fastest defrag you ever saw! We do not add much daily to the
harddrive, or delete. The defrag on our old computer took a LONG time..
this one is ZIP...done.

We have been having sporadic slow ups with the mouse...you know a second or two delay. Rebooting usually fixes it. One time it was really terrible after
a Microsoft download..update. Several people said it was spyware...so
I hope the Spybot did the trick.

This is an 80gig drive with 512 RAM. It is almost 2 yrs old already! I don't think we will ever fill it up! LOL

Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Brian:

You said this:
"Seeing your interested in learning a bit, here is a tip that gets rid of a lot of garbage in XP OS, useless files, but only do it about every 3 months, go to windows exployer/ d/click on C[ local disk] go down to windows then d/click, then run down to "prefetch folder" d/click again then go to edit [up top of page] click "Select All" then go to "file" [up top as well] run down to delete and click it, then just close windows exployer and carry on as normal."

Now is this the same as deleting the temporary files when you clean your cache??? I do this on a regular basis.

What is the difference?
melody

I'm just ckecking on Alan's well being. Is he still alive? Have you fed him since you locked him in the closet? Has he been allowed out at least one hour a day for exercise?

Melody, you are quite the entertainment!
Thank you!

Not only is he still alive and kicking. He's kicking very nicely thank you. We just went to breakfast. I take one of my home-cooked bran muffins (with raisins), and we go to Dunkin Donuts. Their coffee is to die for. I order a breakfast sandwich, some coffee for me, and decaf tea for him (yuck), and Alan is already upstairs in the upper level (with his muffin still in the bag).

When I joing him on the upper level,There is NEVER ANYONE AROUND US. We sit down. I eat my breakfast sandwich, Alan takes out my homemade bran muffin with the raisins. And we sat and chatted for an hour. All relaxed. Since he is on the lyrica, his pins and needles are VERY MUCH LESS DRIVING HIM CRAZY!!!

Since no one knows we bring a home made muffin, our breakfast is cheaper, we get to have the best coffee on a Sunday morning (and I get to have a clean kitchen).

Alan is doing very well on the lyrica. I can only hope that his body doesn't get so used to it that it stops working or that he maxes out. Right now he is steady at 75 twice a day. it's only been about 5 days or so but it's the best 5 days he's ever had.

Rocky just went to the gym.

Oh, he told me to tell you guys that yesterday, when he did the leg weights,he did 270 lbs. I just looked at him. He laughed and said "see what the guys on the neuropathy board thinks about me doing 270 on the leg weights"

I said "well, at least you don't have any muscle weakness in your legs"!!!!

The doctors had told him that if he did have a variant of GBS or anything like that, it presents with muscle weakness.

To me, ANYBODY WHO CAN DO 270 LBS OR SO WITH LEG WEIGHTS, WELL, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY MUSCLE WEAKNESS!!!

You should see his arms. If he comes at me in bed one more time with his bicep in my face and says "Feel this'. I'm going to bop him one!!!

lol, Melody

I don't want to rain on Alan's parade.... BUT....

I USED to do 250 on the leg press. Those were the days before my injury...
and lectures from my physical therapist.

The bottom line? For Alan-- he is better off doing more reps at lower weights,
than pushing himself with higher weights. It is tempting I know, but a tendon
injury comes in a flash, and often does not heal up 100%. As we age our
tendons are not as flexible as when we were younger... If he pulls that groin tendon, like I did, he will be a sorry fella!

So Melody, don't let him get too high with the weights, as tempting as it is.

Please be careful.

Melody,
Its a good idea to clean your tempory files "Cache files" on a regular basis, prefetching means that your computer will try to load every file it will need to boot, as fast as possible. Ahead of when they are needed. The system loads the files into RAM, into buffers. This speeds up the boot process because the system doesn't have to wait as long for files. It is much faster to get them from RAM than from the disk.

Some experts say its completely useless to empty the prefetch folder and others disagree, so its completely an individual decision, if you are only a light PC user then i wouldn't reccommend it at all, but i am a pretty heavy user and i believe it does help, because after some time you accumulate a lot of uneeded files and the prefetch folder gets bloated up, once all files in there are deleted, then windows automaticaly reloads the important files it needs in the prefetch folder so you can't do any harm at all by cleaning it out.

Opon the next reboot after deleting them, you will notice a bit slower starting up, this is because Windows is rebuilding the nessesary files it needs in the prefetch folder, but from then onwards i have found a definate improvement, but thats what i have noticed & and then the opposite will be said from others, so its completely your own decision.

Here is a handy tool that makes it easy to empty the prefetch folder, i wouldn't worry about the other options that are down the bottom, just the button up top to " empty the prefetch now " and if you do decide to do it, its best to do it after a few months of heavy pc using.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2495.html
all the best
Brian
Mel, can you ask Rocky if he is going to do another Rocky film, i am sick of watching the re runs.

To Brian:

What exactly constitutes a heavy PC user? I go on the internet. I don't download stuff because I don't need stuff. I go on these boards, and my own asperger forum that I developed for Parents of young Adults with Aspergers.

That's about it. I surf the net, of course and so does Alan!!

does this make for heavy pc user?


Now on to Mrs. D:

How on earth can I get this man to stop lifting weights the way he is? I don't go to the gym with him. Oh, I know. I pack his gym bag sometimes. I'll just put one of my nightgowns in, instead of his exercise outfit.

That'll get him home fast!!!

lol

melody

[QUOTE=MelodyL;42363]To Brian:

What exactly constitutes a heavy PC user? I go on the internet. I don't download stuff because I don't need stuff. I go on these boards, and my own
asperger forum that I developed for Parents of young Adults with Aspergers.

That's about it. I surf the net, of course and so does Alan!!

does this make for heavy pc user?
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Mel,
I think its really just using the net a few hours of every day, the term downloading is sometimes misunderstood, whilst being on the net, even doing a bank transaction over the net is classed as downloading, here is a page that explains it a lot better than i can.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...ition&ct=title
Ps- Did you get a chance to ask "Rocky" if he was doing anymore Rocky films

So I shall look into this prefetch folder thingee!!!

Now you ask if Rocky is doing any more Rocky films. Don't know about his doing any films but I will tell you what just happened when he walked into the door fresh from his exercising.

I had printed out Mrs. Doubtfire's posting about lifting heavy weights and the pulling of tendons, etc. Alan said "oh really?? Please thank her for the information. How much weights am I supposed to do on the leg press?"
So I'm asking...........??

So we lay down and guess what he does??? He put his arm in front of my nose and says: "Melody, feel this". I said; "I just told them on the boards that if you put your bicep in my face one more time, I'll bop you one". He went on: "You gotta feel this, really!! feel my arm!!" So I felt it and went all OOH, AND AHH!!!

Then he goes (I swear, this is what he said). "I did 30 minutes of Yogurt on the mat". I said "you did what???" He said: "yeah, I got down on the mat and stretched and moved my body this way and that way, I was watching some guy demonstrating these moves". I said "so you did yogurt, hah??"

He said "yeah, that's what I just said". I then asked him 'WHAT FLAVOR"?? and after he looked at me as if I had two heads, I explained YOGA!!! NOT YOGURT!!!

I think he's still laughing.

So what exactly is the total weights that my Rocky is supposed to do on these leg press things?

melody

p.s. believe me, living with this man is NEVER boring!!!!

your mad Melody, i mean that in the nicest way, Yogurt
You two must have a ball together, a perfect match..
good on ya
Brian