Larry
Thu May 15 09:48:00 PDT 2008
Pa Bear Here is the link you requested
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&mid=2ebb2d16-7a92-412c-af54-01f660d0e70b
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
> A link is the URL (
http://......) that's displayed in Address Bar when
> you've opened your forum thread.
>
> Larry wrote:
> > I am not real tech smart, so don't laugh, but what is a link and how do
> > you
> > post one. Larry
> >
> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Please post a link to your thread, Larry.
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> >> Larry wrote:
> >>> Ken I also forget to mention that I did a hijackthis scan and sent the
> >>> log
> >>> file to a web site called Tech Guys for their inspection, a little while
> >>> ago, this afternoon 5/14/08 Larry
> >>>
> >>> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:05:16 -0700, Larry
> >>>> <Larry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello Ken Blake I appoligize, yes I ment 512 mb of ram. The pc is
> >>>>> slow to boot and open apps. as well. I use the disk cleaner each day I
> >>>>> defrag every day. I have software called advanced windows care v-2
> >>>>> personnal I use each day, along with it's memory cleaner. A couple of
> >>>>> weeks ago I downloaded AVG 8.0 free, ran the scan and after an hour
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> results was 24568 warnings of possible infections.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> That's an *enormous* number. If you were that badly infected, there's
> >>>> an excellent chance that not everything was cleaned properly, and you
> >>>> are still infected.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm usually very reluctant to recommend that someone reformat and
> >>>> clean install, but with a system that badly compromised, that's likely
> >>>> your best course.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I used the clean button to remove all of these, don't
> >>>>> know if that was the right thing to do. My pc's software is nothing
> >>>>> all
> >>>>> that spectacular, Quicken 2005, Openoffice 2.4, Mozillia Firefox,
> >>>>> Broderbund, ( a will making app.) and family search ( a geneology
> >>>>> app.)
> >>>>> Thats about all I use. So I don't know what is going on. If it help's
> >>>>> my
> >>>>> disk space is 37 gb with 84% free Larry
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:47:03 -0700, Larry
> >>>>>> <Larry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Just wondering, is sp3 eating up all my ram or not. Since windows
> >>>>>>> updated it to my pc, The pc is painfully slow, (like 6 minutes to
> >>>>>>> reach
> >>>>>>> my desktop, or is somthing else going on. On my disk space I still
> >>>>>>> have 84% available. The ram I have is just 520 mg, so this might the
> >>>>>>> problem?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Several points:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1. Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
> >>>>>> counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or most, of
> >>>>>> your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is
> >>>>>> wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see any of
> >>>>>> it
> >>>>>> wasted.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
> >>>>>> time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>> part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
> >>>>>> this way Windows keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2. Is the computer just slow to boot, or is it also slow after
> >>>>>> booting?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 3. You say "The ram I have is just 520 mg." I assume you mean 512MB.
> >>>>>> For most people, that's fine. How much RAM you need for good
> >>>>>> performance is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. You get good
> >>>>>> performance if the amount of RAM you have keeps you from using the
> >>>>>> page file, and that depends on what apps you run. Most people running
> >>>>>> a typical range of business applications find that somewhere around
> >>>>>> 256-384MB works well, others need 512MB.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> >>>>>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> >>>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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