Everyone has duplicate files. That is not indicative of a duplicate OS
from outer space. The wisdom is.. let the duplicates be. Under certain
circumstances, they may actually run. In other circumstances, you may go
looking for them. In this day & age of GBs, who can really need the hard
drive space? Anyway, it could be a friendly Vulcan who put them there,
instead of a Xindi.
(1) The mouse & keyboard are the ones with moving parts, & they are
"hooked", meaning tasks will run each time you touch one. Therefore,
with the computer off, unplug the mouse & hold by it's tail until it may
stop spinning & squawking. Also, open & clean the ball & rollers. That
is not a design you may see on the rollers-- it is a band of dirt
running round the center! Also, unplug the keyboard, turn it round &
spank it.
(2) If disabling your virus checker's auto-"System" scan, using it's
Tray button, leaving the other types on, gives immediate & dramatic
relief, I have further info. This supposedly applies to Scan Engine
4.1.60.
(3) If you have "Find Fast", try disabling that.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=199787
OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;158705
OFF97: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;135476
OFF95: Office for Windows 95 Find Fast Indexer Overview
(4) For sluggishness in navigating folders: Open Explorer, R-Clk My
Documents in the left pane, & select Properties. How many folders
does it contain? If it is around 100, try moving them out. Reboot. Is
your sluggishness gone?
(5) First pick one of these to identify what loads at boot. Next, see
whether there is an option in it's menus to disable it from starting up.
If you really want to rid yourself of it on a more permanent basis, then
look for it in "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs". However, it isn't
often easy to know what is what in there. One of these URL's may say.
Only last, go to StartUpCop.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367
Startup Items
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q179/3/65.asp
Startup Group
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282107 Startup
http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm
http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/clean.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_a.htm
http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm
http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk...g_startups.htm
http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm
http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startlist.htm
http://www.pcmag.com/ 's StartUpCop has "undo", and it is more than a
combination of "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Startup
Programs" and "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It can even do a
permanent delete. Of course, first see whether the app has an option in
it's own menus to remove itself from the Startup Group. This is
configurable, and one may maintain multiple configurations.
Update definitions & check for viruses, and
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip Removal Tool
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ HijackThis
http://snurl.com/1vf8 HijackThis & how to use it
http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html SpyBot- Search & Destroy, or
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ AdAware
http://www.lavasoftusa.de/ Also AdAware may find something. (Actually,
they certainly will.)
SpyBot is gabby in it's logs, so turn off both the Checks & Fixes logs,
in "Settings".
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"Ed" <E.nader@juno.com> wrote in message
news:0f4101c38a6e$8e1a9bd0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| hey, system running real slow...did lots of diagnostics
| to no avail. Finally downloaded what I thought was a HD
| analyizer but was a file analyizer. See lots of duplicate
| files and most of them WIN98 SE. Believe 2 copies of OS
| running at same time. Thought this would be impossible
| but, nothing impossible and have evidence of same (ask
| me). Anyway, any ideas on how to correct would be
| appreciated. Please keep in mind I am not very good at
| this.
|
| Thanks
|
| Ed
