To be honest, if you're starting from scratch, that's exactly what I mean,
reinstall windows from the CD, reinstall all programs from scratch. IF you
make an image of the hard drive or copy it to another then copy it back,
that's great if you have a failing drive, want to put in a bigger hard drive
but if you're having problems, that's just going to at least bring the
problems with you and could make it worse. I don't suggest backing up the
hard drive if it needs to be formatted and everything reinstalled from
scratch, I actually advise strongly against. Backing up information is
something you need to be doing right along, you can't wait until you have a
problem, then decide to back everything up to try to fix it because you will
back up the problem. I backup all my documents I don't want to lose every
couple weeks, downloaded programs I don't want to lose get backed up
regularly. I've worked on computers long enough , seen and had enough odd
failures over the years, I probably have as many as 5 copies of the real
important stuff between external hard drive that's regularly on my computer,
the one I back everything up on, and a flash drive at least, I have one
flash drive for all radio stuff, one for everything else, used to have one
for school when I was in college. Those are backed up as well on the backup
hard drive. I can have a crash tomorrow on my main computer and I won't lose
much if anything, it happened in April and I don't think I lost anything but
the time to get another computer going.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
Essentials ServiceStopped
> John, that all sounds very good. But let's say you have another drive to
> back things up on and you copy everything over to it. Then you reformat
> your hard drive and recopy everything back over. How do you know you
> aren't
> recopying all those fragments, bad files Etc.?
> Harvey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:14 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
> Essentials ServiceStopped
>
>
>> If you have multiple antivirus programs on your computer, that's a
>> problem
>> in itself and usually ms security essentials will be disabled. Also, when
>> do
>> you get this message? IF it's at start up or while installing updates,
>> that
>> happens and once it's done booting up and what not it will run the
>> program
>> fine on it's own, if in the middle of just every day use,there's
>> something
>> going on. Ms security essentials will update when you get windows updates
>> so
>> you don't need to manually update it, if the system tray thing says the
>> computer may not be protected, it's time to do a scan. If it's still
>> running
>> slow after all those scans, I have to wonder a couple things. 1, have you
>> done a defrag on the drive? Also, how long have you run the system since
>> a
>> complete reformat and reinstall? After a while, there's just so much
>> stuff
>> that builds up, fragments of old programs and what not, even though some
>> say
>> with newer systems you don't have that problem but any heavily used
>> system
>> I
>> find will eventually be so weighed down with stuff after a few years it
>> will
>> need to be reformatted and started from scratch. If there is a trogen or
>> something on there and no program is finding it, same thing.
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