From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PIBNY-0007SC-RO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:34:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A20DE079A; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2175E079A for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so85128vws.40 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:33:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=jMlsAaOewkd9ljqc8erYrDVcoUuQNw1l2LIiBfITmp8=; b=qZLNIy1ajd141XDDabwqEIJnzK+jPeIrfTNtfKCWqf3eCohUQ1onsnyJaH44BplUfM Hk67OPMNnFj+xQhV3yrTa946ISwy+YwLwbraMQ+JFYOSUkowCtnIPLsOJo0DSWY+FkzU /5Ik0XgBTz+4sIBMTEoZvftvZqKCvsQR4BxCU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; b=e6hAK1J1+VtirmKjTU3ICE6dhSaJT1by2t4bF7Nx/DP3gfnw97VZLnHUTxM/6PTItD KNeL8pkG7mR1eq3f3Zi+znZ6JmJZnBQgXGCIH1kNcmY9S+mcdHx5L6i5QnvdAyj2zitK XUj69R9uVrOnk71oZZLhdJ4+CWZ+veI3ARVmU= Received: by 10.220.124.219 with SMTP id v27mr1538127vcr.228.1289874802601; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:33:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-93-231.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fs21sm326361vbb.0.2010.11.15.18.33.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:33:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CE1ED6F.8080406@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:33:19 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze References: <4CE0AF60.3020505@gmail.com> <201011152152.40587.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CE1ADCF.8060506@gmail.com> <201011160041.01199.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070109080201040403060208" X-Archives-Salt: 20492411-c953-45d8-ab59-60a9310be8f6 X-Archives-Hash: a9573c73f9fee6a4188d7a1631a67a5d This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070109080201040403060208 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Carter wrote: > > > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. > > > Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would > 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully > security updated windows box. > 2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag > 3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows > install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has > been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to > find the media - just remember that OEM media is different to > standard media. > 4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys) > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up something. I would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it. I do wish I could do what I want to with it tho. It's not a bad machine. 3.2GHz CPU with a little over a Gig of ram and about a 60Gb hard drive. It would run Linux sweetly. I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now. It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either. Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but maybe it will last the kids a little while at least. For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O Dale :-) :-) --------------070109080201040403060208 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Carter wrote:

> One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.

Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully security updated windows box.
2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag
3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to find the media -  just remember that OEM media is different to standard media.
4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys)



That's not doable here tho.  This is a Linux only house.  My nieces puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just visiting.  It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my Linux box.  It would be just my luck that it screwed up something.  I would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it. 

I do wish I could do what I want to with it tho.  It's not a bad machine.  3.2GHz CPU with a little over a Gig of ram and about a 60Gb hard drive.  It would run Linux sweetly. 

I did reboot that thing.  It does boot and it boots a lot faster now.  It appears it was fragmented pretty badly.  The error messages about software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either.  Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff.  I'm not holding my breath but maybe it will last the kids a little while at least. 

For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze.  O_O 

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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