You can try an in-place repair of XP before you resort to a complete
re-install, but John is right. If you just make a clone, you're likely
cloning the problem as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
Essentials ServiceStopped
> 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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