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it really sounds like spyware/malware or just a plain crashing IE add-on. there is no easy way to figure out what it might be without learning how to write IE add-ons first. Herb - Original Message - From: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 2:32 PM Subject: Re: computer question Yes I rebooted the computer a couple times, and it is still doing it today. Another observation is that once I close the error message screen the computer freezes for about 20-30 seconds and any type or image underneath does not get refreshed until it un-freezes.
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Hi Butch, Here are a few more things you can try: 1. Check Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Try to uninstall anything that looks unfamiliar. Maybe you've got spyware. If that's the case maybe your computer will recover enough from temporarily uninstalling the spyware that you can download an anti spyware tool e.g. the one from Microsoft. 2. Try to uninstall IE and reinstall from your Windows CD. (Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components) A piece of unasked for advice (and you can shout at me for it :): This is a good time to make a backup of files you care for because in the worst case you will have to reinstall the whole of Windows. Best of luck, Gautam
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Actually a number of "failed" spyware installations will give the same result. (Also ham handed attempts are removing spyware will do the same thing). Pete (get me a bigger cleaver), the ham handed. Mark Roberts wrote: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes I rebooted the computer a couple times, and it is still doing it today. Another observation is that once I close the error message screen the computer freezes for about 20-30 seconds and any type or image underneath does not get refreshed until it un-freezes. This behavior sounds suspiciously virus-like... -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
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"Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes I rebooted the computer a couple times, and it is still doing it today. >Another observation is that once I close the error message screen the >computer freezes for about 20-30 seconds and any type or image underneath >does not get refreshed until it un-freezes. This behavior sounds suspiciously virus-like... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
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Yes I rebooted the computer a couple times, and it is still doing it today. Another observation is that once I close the error message screen the computer freezes for about 20-30 seconds and any type or image underneath does not get refreshed until it un-freezes. Butch
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spyware scanner? otherwise, the only reliable way is to reinstall Windows over top of itself and then reapply all the updates. Herb... - Original Message - From: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 12:40 AM Subject: computer question I've got a computer problem. I can't access I.E. Explorer or the web. I keep getting an error message: Microsoft visual C++ runtime error Runtime error! Program: C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. I was surfing the web. I exited one site and was going to another when this happened. I've run Norton Anti virus and cleared internet cache to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
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This is going to sound stupid but did you re-boot your machine? Butch Black wrote: Hi Guys I've got a computer problem. I can't access I.E. Explorer or the web. I keep getting an error message: Microsoft visual C++ runtime error Runtime error! Program: C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. I was surfing the web. I exited one site and was going to another when this happened. I've run Norton Anti virus and cleared internet cache to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Butch -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
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Hi Butch, Did you try to restart your computer? Sometimes this takes care of transient bugs. If you still get the problem let me know and we can try a few more things. Let me know what operating system you're using. Gautam > -Original Message- > From: Butch Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:40 PM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Cc: Butch Black > Subject: computer question > > > Hi Guys > > I've got a computer problem. I can't access I.E. Explorer or the > web. I keep > getting an error message: > > Microsoft visual C++ runtime error > > Runtime error! > > Program: C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe > > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual > way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. > > I was surfing the web. I exited one site and was going to another > when this > happened. I've run Norton Anti virus and cleared internet cache > to no avail. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Butch > > >
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shouldn't make any difference. Herb...
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- Original Message - From: "Butch Black" Subject: OT: computer question Hi. Just a quick question for the computer people. I just bought a dual monitor card from my housemate. Should I remove the software and my current card first or should I leave them in in case of problems with the new card? I'm running xp home. My computer guy removes the driver and software for the current card, then shuts the machine down and swaps out the hardware. William Robb
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I have not kept in touch with the industry lately, but it used to be that MS sold equipment manufactures OEM copies of Windows for about $5 each. There were only supposed to be provided with the machine. Howver, as anyone who have been to a computer fair knows, there was a lot of cheating on that. I figure that with XP MS provides the manufacture one copy of the system and a license fee of a few buck for each system, but now the manufacture loads the system on the hard drive, and provides MS with the serial number of each machine made. When you register Windows with MS they read the serial number of the OS which tells them who it is that loaded it, and the serial number of the machine which tells them if the vendor paid the license fee. If both match they provide support, if they do not they refuse to register it. Since the vendor only has one copy he can not provide disks, but you can copy a back up from the system for your use. Stupid? Yes. But that is the MS way. -- William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Boros Attila" Subject: Re[2]: Computer Question I understand M$'s wishes to stop piracy, but this is not the right way to do that. I think MS's idea is that you don't actually own the software on the machine, but are merely buying a license to use it on that machine. Change machines (or any portion thereof) and they want you to relicense. I'm with you though. No set up CD, and I won't purchase the machine. If I don't get the CD, I have no assurance that I am the only person on that license. William Robb -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
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As a salesman for a large electronics retailer let me comment. The computers come to us with the operating systems installed. HP and Compaq desktops have the recovery files on a second (D:) partition on the hard drive. They have a method by which you can copy the files to disks. Sony has a task that runs soon after initial startup which allows you to create the disks. In both cases you get one opportunity to create the disks. I know with Sony that if the dsk wrting fails you are out of luck. Laptops all ship with recovery disks in the box. It sounds like Staples lost the recovery disks and wants you to buy a copy of Windows. I like the fact that the recovery files are on the hard drive. You have no idea how many customers come into the store and want recovery disks for a three or four year old computer because they have lost their original. jm - Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:46 AM Subject: Re: Computer Question > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hubby bought me a laptop for Christmas from Staples. It was a demo > version so > > the OS had already been installed. They wanted him to cough up an > extra $80 > > to get the OS on disk. Bloody cheek! > > Make you wonder how many installs they have done off that disk. > > William Robb > >
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I have OEM installs for Win98, Win2000, Win2000 server, WinXP. They are only single installation licenses but AFAIK the if I had multi install licenses I could use those installation CD's, (well, actually except for Win98 they are all on one DVD), I could install them on as many machines as my agreement with Microsoft would allow. William Robb wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hubby bought me a laptop for Christmas from Staples. It was a demo version so the OS had already been installed. They wanted him to cough up an extra $80 to get the OS on disk. Bloody cheek! Make you wonder how many installs they have done off that disk. William Robb
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not in the US anymore. they typically have a recovery partition on hard drives as Tanya has and the abilty to make a set of your own CDs from that. Herb - Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Computer Question > I don't know about how things are elswhere, but here, if you buy a > computer with the OS installed (from a real vendor), you have to be > given the original disk as well.
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Wendy posted: > Hubby bought me a laptop for Christmas from Staples. It was a demo version so the OS had already been installed. They wanted him to cough up an extra $80 to get the OS on disk. Bloody cheek! Very true that's bloody cheek (must avoid Staples). When I bought my notebook (from CompUSA) it, too, had been the demo model and had the OS already installed ... and the disks WERE supplied. ERN
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William Robb wrote: >I don't know about how things are elswhere, but here, if you buy a >computer with the OS installed (from a real vendor), you have to be >given the original disk as well. > Hubby bought me a laptop for Christmas from Staples. It was a demo version so the OS had already been installed. They wanted him to cough up an extra $80 to get the OS on disk. Bloody cheek! -- wendy beard ottawa, canada http://www.beard-redfern.com
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There are various ways to handle both eventualities. I've never had experience with a HD failure with anyone using XP. The instructions say to contact the manufacturer if such a thing happens. I expect that they will supply the OS in some form. (XP is a pain IMHO). William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Peter J. Alling" Subject: Re: Computer Question Microsoft sees original disks as a license to pirate these days. (They've come a long way from the days when the virtually gave dos away). There are, however, times when the disk is a necessity, such as when installing a new driver or some such. I don't know about how things are elswhere, but here, if you buy a computer with the OS installed (from a real vendor), you have to be given the original disk as well. What happens when your C drive fails and you haven't got the install disc? William Robb
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In a message dated 3/31/2004 11:07:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What happens when your C drive fails and you haven't got the install disc? William Robb -- You're up Well, you can finish that for yourself. Marnie aka Doe :-) Oh, it was rhetorical. Well, then you're up the rhetorical...
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- Original Message - From: "Peter J. Alling" Subject: Re: Computer Question > Microsoft sees original disks as a license to pirate these days. > (They've come a long way from the days > when the virtually gave dos away). There are, however, times when the disk is a necessity, such as when installing a new driver or some such. I don't know about how things are elswhere, but here, if you buy a computer with the OS installed (from a real vendor), you have to be given the original disk as well. What happens when your C drive fails and you haven't got the install disc? William Robb
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Microsoft sees original disks as a license to pirate these days. (They've come a long way from the days when the virtually gave dos away). Boros Attila wrote: Eac> Not an XP user, so just a thought. Some systems do not come with a Eac> installation Eac> disk (CD) but have the systems software on the drive. Since Tan says she does Eac> not have a system CD that may be what is on the Restore partition. You have paid the license for XP and they don't even give you a setup CD?! I couldn't imagine that even for M$ ;( Attila
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In XP go to Control Panel, open the icon marked Folder Options, click on the View tab, then click the radio button for "Show Hidden Files and Folders" Paul - Original Message - From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Computer Question > Don't know XP, as I said, but somewhere there should be a control for "folder > options" (it's under "Start", "Settings" in Win98). Go to it and click the box > for "show all files" under the "view" tab. > > Locate the files and copy them. Then go and change the folder options back to > what they were. > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/28/2004 7:28:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Not an XP user, so just a thought. Some systems do not come with a > > installation > > disk (CD) but have the systems software on the drive. Since Tan says she does > > not have a system CD that may be what is on the Restore partition. > > > > Just in case, it might be a good idea to copy that stuff over to CD's before > > she > > does anything else with the partition. > > -- > > > > Think that would be hard to do for the novice, if they hide the directories. > > Unless they give instructions for doing it. Or unless instructions can be > > obtained. I certainly would back up the restore stuff to CDs before doing > > anything, yup. > > > > Marnie aka Doe > > > > > > -- > graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html > > > >
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Don't know XP, as I said, but somewhere there should be a control for "folder options" (it's under "Start", "Settings" in Win98). Go to it and click the box for "show all files" under the "view" tab. Locate the files and copy them. Then go and change the folder options back to what they were. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/28/2004 7:28:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not an XP user, so just a thought. Some systems do not come with a installation disk (CD) but have the systems software on the drive. Since Tan says she does not have a system CD that may be what is on the Restore partition. Just in case, it might be a good idea to copy that stuff over to CD's before she does anything else with the partition. -- Think that would be hard to do for the novice, if they hide the directories. Unless they give instructions for doing it. Or unless instructions can be obtained. I certainly would back up the restore stuff to CDs before doing anything, yup. Marnie aka Doe -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
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In a message dated 3/28/2004 7:28:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not an XP user, so just a thought. Some systems do not come with a installation disk (CD) but have the systems software on the drive. Since Tan says she does not have a system CD that may be what is on the Restore partition. Just in case, it might be a good idea to copy that stuff over to CD's before she does anything else with the partition. -- Think that would be hard to do for the novice, if they hide the directories. Unless they give instructions for doing it. Or unless instructions can be obtained. I certainly would back up the restore stuff to CDs before doing anything, yup. Marnie aka Doe
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Tanya, do yourself a favor and rename your folder. Too many clean up programs might mistake this for a temp folder or file constituting a possible disaster of the worst kind. -Original Message- From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Computer Question lol! Sorry, Herb, my mistake there! My "TMP" folder isn't my Temp folder - it is my "Tanya Mayer Photography (hence the TMP) folder. It contains everything pertaining to my business which is why I was worried about the mentions of "loss" in the error message. I do understand what you are saying about the TEMP folder though... Many thanks! tan. -Original Message- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Computer Question TMP means exactly what it sounds like, temporary. you should never care what is in it unless you put it there yourself. my startup script unconditionally deletes everything in it every time i boot my system. Herb - Original Message - From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: RE: Computer Question > I just began to copy my TMP folder over to the "D:" and got the following > error message: > > "Confirm Stream Loss - The file "Thumbs" has extra information attached to > it that might be lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file > will not be affected. Information that might be lost includesL > ":encryptable:$DATA". Do you wish to proceed anyway? Yes, Yes To All, No, > Cancel etc".
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Cotty wrote: > Thanks Tom. I finally understand. Sounds sorta like only C/: can have the blessed folder ;^) Bill - Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast http://www.orednet.org/~bcasselb [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
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Not an XP user, so just a thought. Some systems do not come with a installation disk (CD) but have the systems software on the drive. Since Tan says she does not have a system CD that may be what is on the Restore partition. Just in case, it might be a good idea to copy that stuff over to CD's before she does anything else with the partition. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So D: should work fine as your scratch disk. It is probably named restore only because the person who set it up named it that. Unless, for some weird reason, XP is also stored on it (in addition to drive C:). But that would be highly unlikely since restore discs are usually separate CDs (or DVDs). So I wouldn't sweat what its volume name is (i.e scratch). You could even change it if you wanted in Windows Explorer. Sometimes people who set up computers (computer geeks) have their own weird personal preferences that are hard to decipher later. -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
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What is a C drive? Why have D if you have C? Stay tuned for more enthralling questions as I try and get my head around PCs. My wife has just been given a PC notebook to use as part of her job.. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
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On Mar 28, 2004, at 13:37, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: So after reading everybody's (extremely helpful!) responses, I am guessing that if I take my TMP (Tanya Mayer Photography) folder that contains pretty much all of my data, pix etc and is currently around 12gb in size, and just dump it on the D: it would be ok? What worries me is that such a huge drive is getting full already, and you've only put 12Gb of data onto it. I can think of two possible causes: Photoshop isn't cleaning up its temporary files, or perhaps your recycle bin has been set to reserve way too much space. Checking the recycle bin is easy enough but I have no idea where Photoshop keeps its temp files on Windows. I am still concerned due to the title of the D: being "restore", it really makes me wonder if I should be using it... You can rename it if it worries you :) Also, as raised by Nick (and suggested by Robert), I have wondered about setting my scratch disk for PS to D: - should I do this, or wouldn't it have any effect due to the fact that it is only a drive partition and not a separate physical drive? Since its a partition on the same physical drive, you won't see any speed gains. It is currently set to use "StartUp" as the first scratch disk, and D: as the second. Can anyone tell me why there are choices for up to four separate scratch disks and how should I be setting them up in order of preference... I guess that there are four options so that Photoshop can use another drive when the first one starts running short of space. I would suggest that you use whichever drive has the most free space as your primary scratch drive, then the other one as secondary. You only have two drives so don't worry about specifying any more. As an aside, at least Windows XP stops you from accidentally deleting the wrong things. My half-brother once managed to completely hose Dad's PC (Windows 95) when he deleted the "Windows" directory to free up space. So I'll echo someone else's suggestion to rename your TMP folder. And keep backups :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
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Hi! TMP> lol! Sorry, Herb, my mistake there! TMP> My "TMP" folder isn't my Temp folder - it is my "Tanya Mayer Photography TMP> (hence the TMP) folder. It contains everything pertaining to my business TMP> which is why I was worried about the mentions of "loss" in the error TMP> message. TMP> I do understand what you are saying about the TEMP folder though... Tanya, with all due respect, I would strongly suggest that you rename your folder. You know, normally, when a person unrelated to you would (if they're let to) look at your computer they would treat the TMP as TeMPorary which may lead to bad bad things... Seriously, though - consider renaming it. Just my bits... Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Hi! I have two hard drives and many partitions. My main partition for Win98 is just 5 GB large. It's been this ever since I bought the darn thing and installed the s/ware on it. No problems whatsoever. My biggest partition is of course the whole second HD with slightly less than 40 GB on it - photos and other large stuff. I used to do some home movie editing you know... Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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>In a message dated 3/27/2004 5:39:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, as raised by Nick (and suggested by Robert), I have wondered about setting my scratch disk for PS to D: - should I do this, or wouldn't it have any effect due to the fact that it is only a drive partition and not a separate physical drive? It is currently set to use "StartUp" as the first scratch disk, and D: as the second. Can anyone tell me why there are choices for up to four separate scratch disks and how should I be setting >them up in order of preference... Being a software person (programmer), I am not really up on everything hardware. But a logical drive (a partition) behaves exactly the same as a physical drive to all intents and purposes. So no worries there. >Thanks again for all of your great responses, you have all pretty much confirmed what I already knew, but now I understand why I don't appear to have the full amount of gb etc. What would I do without this list...?!?! >tan. So D: should work fine as your scratch disk. It is probably named restore only because the person who set it up named it that. Unless, for some weird reason, XP is also stored on it (in addition to drive C:). But that would be highly unlikely since restore discs are usually separate CDs (or DVDs). So I wouldn't sweat what its volume name is (i.e scratch). You could even change it if you wanted in Windows Explorer. Sometimes people who set up computers (computer geeks) have their own weird personal preferences that are hard to decipher later. HTH Marnie aka Doe
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TMP = Tanya Mayer Photography in this case, and TM should care a whole lot about what's in the folder and what gets deleted. Herb Chong wrote: > > TMP means exactly what it sounds like, temporary. you should never care what > is in it unless you put it there yourself. my startup script unconditionally > deletes everything in it every time i boot my system. > > Herb > - Original Message - > From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:53 PM > Subject: RE: Computer Question > > > I just began to copy my TMP folder over to the "D:" and got the following > > error message:
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lol! Sorry, Herb, my mistake there! My "TMP" folder isn't my Temp folder - it is my "Tanya Mayer Photography (hence the TMP) folder. It contains everything pertaining to my business which is why I was worried about the mentions of "loss" in the error message. I do understand what you are saying about the TEMP folder though... Many thanks! tan. -Original Message- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Computer Question TMP means exactly what it sounds like, temporary. you should never care what is in it unless you put it there yourself. my startup script unconditionally deletes everything in it every time i boot my system. Herb - Original Message - From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: RE: Computer Question > I just began to copy my TMP folder over to the "D:" and got the following > error message: > > "Confirm Stream Loss - The file "Thumbs" has extra information attached to > it that might be lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file > will not be affected. Information that might be lost includesL > ":encryptable:$DATA". Do you wish to proceed anyway? Yes, Yes To All, No, > Cancel etc".
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TMP means exactly what it sounds like, temporary. you should never care what is in it unless you put it there yourself. my startup script unconditionally deletes everything in it every time i boot my system. Herb - Original Message - From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: RE: Computer Question > I just began to copy my TMP folder over to the "D:" and got the following > error message: > > "Confirm Stream Loss - The file "Thumbs" has extra information attached to > it that might be lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file > will not be affected. Information that might be lost includesL > ":encryptable:$DATA". Do you wish to proceed anyway? Yes, Yes To All, No, > Cancel etc".
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Ok, so now here is another twist to the saga... I just began to copy my TMP folder over to the "D:" and got the following error message: "Confirm Stream Loss - The file "Thumbs" has extra information attached to it that might be lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file will not be affected. Information that might be lost includesL ":encryptable:$DATA". Do you wish to proceed anyway? Yes, Yes To All, No, Cancel etc". What the heck does this mean?!?! tan. -Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Computer Question On 28 Mar 2004 at 11:01, mapson wrote: > At 10:50 AM 28/03/2004, you wrote: > >Hi Tanja,I am just a little perplexed at your problem.I have an HP > >t134a(Windows XP) with a 120 GB Hard drive and it is partitioned for restore > >but the main partition C Drive is 100 GB with the "restore"D drive 20 GB.It > >seems to me your ratios are all wrong.You quote 40GB "c Drive and 60GB > >"D"drive.They should be reversed with your C drive being the larger by far of > >the two. Regards Chris Kennedy > > I beg to differ, Chris. > > I am successfully running my comp on C being 6.5Gb > > That is used for OS and other things that have to go on C, rest of > programmes go on D. Other partitions are used for file storage. I have to agree, I just re-partitioned my OS drive with was 2GB to 6GB and I now have almost 65% spare system area, should last me another 7 years :-) I simply maintain an off line HDD with a duplicate of my current OS in case of problems. I have many other partition and system and network drives all of which are substantially larger than my OS drive. My applications are installed only on my OS drive and no user data is stored in my OS drive including my desk-top and other profile data. Having no experience with XP though I don't know what degree of control the OS authors have taken away from the user in order to make it more "user friendly" :-( Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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On 28 Mar 2004 at 11:01, mapson wrote: > At 10:50 AM 28/03/2004, you wrote: > >Hi Tanja,I am just a little perplexed at your problem.I have an HP > >t134a(Windows XP) with a 120 GB Hard drive and it is partitioned for restore > >but the main partition C Drive is 100 GB with the "restore"D drive 20 GB.It > >seems to me your ratios are all wrong.You quote 40GB "c Drive and 60GB > >"D"drive.They should be reversed with your C drive being the larger by far of > >the two. Regards Chris Kennedy > > I beg to differ, Chris. > > I am successfully running my comp on C being 6.5Gb > > That is used for OS and other things that have to go on C, rest of > programmes go on D. Other partitions are used for file storage. I have to agree, I just re-partitioned my OS drive with was 2GB to 6GB and I now have almost 65% spare system area, should last me another 7 years :-) I simply maintain an off line HDD with a duplicate of my current OS in case of problems. I have many other partition and system and network drives all of which are substantially larger than my OS drive. My applications are installed only on my OS drive and no user data is stored in my OS drive including my desk-top and other profile data. Having no experience with XP though I don't know what degree of control the OS authors have taken away from the user in order to make it more "user friendly" :-( Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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Yes, Chris! That is what I would have thought too, which is why I too have been so confused! BUT, being unfamiliar with the full workings of XP, I thought that maybe it was setup somehow to accomodate that. So after reading everybody's (extremely helpful!) responses, I am guessing that if I take my TMP (Tanya Mayer Photography) folder that contains pretty much all of my data, pix etc and is currently around 12gb in size, and just dump it on the D: it would be ok? I am still concerned due to the title of the D: being "restore", it really makes me wonder if I should be using it... Also, as raised by Nick (and suggested by Robert), I have wondered about setting my scratch disk for PS to D: - should I do this, or wouldn't it have any effect due to the fact that it is only a drive partition and not a separate physical drive? It is currently set to use "StartUp" as the first scratch disk, and D: as the second. Can anyone tell me why there are choices for up to four separate scratch disks and how should I be setting them up in order of preference... Thanks again for all of your great responses, you have all pretty much confirmed what I already knew, but now I understand why I don't appear to have the full amount of gb etc. What would I do without this list...?!?! tan. -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:21 AM To: Tanya Mayer Photography; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Computer Question Hi Tanja,I am just a little perplexed at your problem.I have an HP t134a(Windows XP) with a 120 GB Hard drive and it is partitioned for restore but the main partition C Drive is 100 GB with the "restore"D drive 20 GB.It seems to me your ratios are all wrong.You quote 40GB "c Drive and 60GB "D"drive.They should be reversed with your C drive being the larger by far of the two. Regards Chris Kennedy
Re: Computer Question
At 10:50 AM 28/03/2004, you wrote: Hi Tanja,I am just a little perplexed at your problem.I have an HP t134a(Windows XP) with a 120 GB Hard drive and it is partitioned for restore but the main partition C Drive is 100 GB with the "restore"D drive 20 GB.It seems to me your ratios are all wrong.You quote 40GB "c Drive and 60GB "D"drive.They should be reversed with your C drive being the larger by far of the two. Regards Chris Kennedy I beg to differ, Chris. I am successfully running my comp on C being 6.5Gb That is used for OS and other things that have to go on C, rest of programmes go on D. Other partitions are used for file storage. So it is not a case of how much space you have initially on your C drive, it is a case of how much junk you put on it afterwards ;-D (*)o(*) Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
