posted
Lately, my computer has degraded itself to crud with all the help from outside internet downloads. Nothing was functioning up to snuff, so I decided to pull out my handy little spare hard drive, that I clone with Norton Ghost about every 2 to 3 months. It saved me about 2 days of hard re-installing files, much less all the files that I would have lost. I hooked the sick harddrive up as a slave, and brought the cloned HD up to date in about 30 minutes. I will now reformat, and clone it for the backup.... Best backup system a person could have for a single computer setup. I always take the cloned one home for extra protection, and I can even use files on it there, by hooking it up as a slave.
-------------------- "Don't change horses in midstream, unless you spot one with longer legs" bronzeo oti Jack Davis 1410 Main St Joplin, MO 64801 www.imagemakerart.com jack@imagemakerart.com Posts: 1549 | From: Joplin, MO | Registered: Mar 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
Jack, Have you seen those Docking ports for harddrives.. It goes in one of the bays then you can just plug the hard drive in like an 8track tape.. They are better for backing info but its real nice to be able to make a complete backup in about 15 mins (40 gig) instead of CDs.. They might be starting to replace them now with DVD now but they are nice to have around
posted
I know that I have said this before but here does again. Our computers are acting like there is a virus but we can't find anything. I have Norton and have the computers scheduled to update every Wed. and have scanned off of their website.
We have 6 computers installed on a network and my Dell was the server. The Dell was only a 500MHz and was just too slow and couldn't have any more memory added to it. It was constantly locking up or just so slow that I couldn't even go from one web page to another. Then within a week, another computer on the network started acting the same way plus it wouldn't shut off everytime. Then a few days later my laptop (which is on the network). So I decided to bring in a computer from home.
My networking guy was there, helping to move the Dell to a new location and leaving it as the server. I now had a much faster puter to work on everyday. Yippee!!! Well my guy and I messed around with it, did some designing on it, etc and everything was working great. I had told him that before we hook it to the server, I wanted to go to Norton and get the lastest downloads so that if there was something on the server, it would hopefully catch it right away. Well we forgot to do that in all our playing around. I then accessed and saved something on the server. Before my networking guy left we were having the same problems as all the other puters. Now when working in Corel Draw, I have to exit Corel about every 15-30 minutes and then re-start Corel. If I don't, my resources will be total gone - down to 5%. I re-loaded Corel but that didn't help. Any suggestions? I still think that there is a virus, trojan, etc out there that hasn't been discovered.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged |
I recently used a ghost image (supplied) to restore the computer that came with the matan printer, it did work like a charm. Being network based, I don't store any files on workstations and the server is backed up religiously, however, using the ghost disk was much faster than loading o/s, applications, device drivers and network settings separately, and no further configuration was needed. I see on the symantic site that the ghost utility would let me store images of each workstation on the file server, and then burn them onto cd when/if needed.. that would save a lot of configuration time .... Hmmmm .. food for thought..
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
posted
Laura...What version of Corel? and have you downloaded and installed all of the Service Packs for whatever version you are using?
There was a memory leak problem with either Corel 9 or 10 (I forget which one) and a the service packs were supposed to have resolved that issue.
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
Its free and you would be surprised how much spyware is on your computer. I always get calls from households complaining about slow computers, invariably the computers are loaded with spyware, it is not unusual to have 100-200 pieces of spyware. Each one is a little program that is running consuming resources. Virus programs do not detect spyware.
posted
I tried the ad-ware and it found 135 different items that it disposed of. None of which I recognized, so I let it toast them. The puter seems to be running about the same after restart, but I'll see once I start working. I ind it hard to beleive that there could be soooo many item, because I am running update virus protection and a fire wall. Thanx
-------------------- Glenn Thompson Tell-Tale Signs Williams Lake, BC sign@telus.net (250)398-7446 Posts: 201 | From: Williams Lake, BC | Registered: Dec 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
I run Ad-Aware at least once a week. Everything had been running fine on this computer while at home and then when I took it to the shop. The minute that I accessed the server I started having problems. This all took place within a couple of weeks. I forgot also to say is that, all of a suddon, two computers at home are having the same problems (we have transfered pictures and files on CF cards)to these computers before we knew that we had such a serious problems at the shop.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
I forgot to ask something. Is there a way of saving existing emails, transferring them to a floppy or cd and then bringing them back into OExpress after I re-format? I know that you couldn't a few years ago. I have a lot of emails that I want to have access to but don't want to print all of them out.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
In OE right click on Inbox, properties and it will show you the location of your inbox.dbx file, save it to whatever, cdr, backup tape etc. Do the same for whatever other folders in OE that you want to archive.
-------------------- Alf Toy Adlib Graphics Saskatoon, SK Canada
posted
I cringe when a user complains of a slow PC. Problems that can slow down a computer are so numerous that you can troubleshoot 'til the cows come home and never find the cause. Such PC speed killers include: incorrectly configured antivirus software, low memory, too many background services running, a fragmented hard disk, or network congestion—and these are just the well-known problems. Suffice to say that it would be difficult to troubleshoot over the bullboard. What versions of Windows are you running? Also Norton is a memory hog, as well as XP, try disabling Norton and see what happens.
If you can't as you mention, add ram to the Dell 500, keep the Server just to store data and for distribution , sounds like you are running Internet and other programs on the server.
[ August 10, 2003, 12:59 AM: Message edited by: Alfred Toy ]
-------------------- Alf Toy Adlib Graphics Saskatoon, SK Canada
posted
laura, follow the directions here to backup your OE files. Also, you might want to uninstall norton and install AVG antivirus. It is free, and has worked beautifully for me for several years now. I had a friend of mine having a similar problem to yours lately. When she switched the problems went away. You can download AVG here. BTW, tech TV highly recomends AVG, they love it too! good luck!
[ August 11, 2003, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: Dave Utter ]
-------------------- Dave Utter D-utterguy on chat Sign Designs Beardstown, Il. signdesigns@casscomm.com Posts: 777 | From: beardstown, illinois, usa | Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
Dave, I cringe at the thought of having my business and my livelyhood depending on a freeware antivirus. Get something good, from a company that responds to new viruses quickly, take new av tables daily. If you're networked, get something that will sweep network drives as well as local drives. There's just too much at stake here to go cheap.
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
I just got cable internet and had not updated my AV yet. WHAM! 2 malicious worms were in and I lost the whole system to formatting. Couldn't even back stuff up first. Mcafee has an AV you can get online, which I did immediately, and for the ten cents a day cost, it's crazy not to. Over this weekend I realised how much I've been relying on the computer to work out ideas on. For myself, I'm gonna start doing things the way I used to...hand drawn sketches. In all honesty, it's faster and not subject to someone's little code monsters.
Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
| IP: Logged |
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic