Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-16 Thread j maccraw
Only like most of the FF base for the past 2+ years! ;) Use Process Explorer & look at the FF process' threads, I'll bet you find JPEG_FDCT_ISLOW eating all your CPU. Here are a few suggested links: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_CPU_usage http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions B

[H] Need help troubleshooting some really weird network problems

2007-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Moved into the new house a couple weeks ago and got my network setup and I'm having some problems that I can't pin down. Mainly, network connectivity between my two windows machines really, really sucks. Can't even stream one single mp3 without hitches and remote desktop loses connection all the t

RE: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread Eli Allen
Chkdsk never runs correctly on a disk it doesn't have excusive access to, that's why it has the /X command line option which for the boot disk means it does the check on startup. Eli -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent:

Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 08:55 PM 16/10/2007, j maccraw wrote: Evidently it's an MFT error and may not be fixable w/o reformatting. Net is full of people complaining about this error with no fix short of reformatting. That's not it. The same problem occurs with a different hard drive and a fresh install of Window

Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread j maccraw
Evidently it's an MFT error and may not be fixable w/o reformatting. Net is full of people complaining about this error with no fix short of reformatting. Thane Sherrington wrote: > I have a computer in (about three months old, running XP Home with a > Western Digital 80GB SATA drive and an A

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-16 Thread JRS
All OK here :) >>Just noticed it really over the last week. I can't do ANYTHING else >>on my machine while surfing the net with firefox. Every time I load a >>page or anything it spikes the CPU to 100%, such that even listening >>to mp3s through iTunes stops. >> >>I know my system isn't

Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:50 AM 16/10/2007, Joe User wrote: > T Wow that is weird. Is there any other issues other then the CHKDSK error? The customer says that he lost his Dragon Naturally Speaking user configuration and was concerned that something in Windows was deleted. I just did some tests on some other

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 06:32 PM 16/10/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Just noticed it really over the last week. I can't do ANYTHING else on my machine while surfing the net with firefox. Every time I load a page or anything it spikes the CPU to 100%, such that even listening to mp3s through iTunes stops. Not here. T

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
That didn't happen for me. Brian Weeden wrote: Just noticed it really over the last week. I can't do ANYTHING else on my machine while surfing the net with firefox. Every time I load a page or anything it spikes the CPU to 100%, such that even listening to mp3s through iTunes stops. I know my

[H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Just noticed it really over the last week. I can't do ANYTHING else on my machine while surfing the net with firefox. Every time I load a page or anything it spikes the CPU to 100%, such that even listening to mp3s through iTunes stops. I know my system isn't the fastest out there - 2400+ Tbird,

[H] Cyrillic keyboard

2007-10-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have a customer who is looking for a Panasonic Toughbook but wants the keycaps to be English/Cyrillic. (sp?) Panasonic Canada says they don't make them - does anyone know of a third party place I can buy keycaps that might work? T

Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread Joe User
Hello Thane, Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 7:40:25 AM, you wrote: > I have a computer in (about three months old, running XP Home with a > Western Digital 80GB SATA drive and an Asus P5B-VM > motherboard.) When I run CHKDSK within Windows, it tells me that > Windows has found problems with the b

[H] Strange CHKDSK problem

2007-10-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have a computer in (about three months old, running XP Home with a Western Digital 80GB SATA drive and an Asus P5B-VM motherboard.) When I run CHKDSK within Windows, it tells me that Windows has found problems with the bitmap and to run with /f - when I do this and reboot, it runs normally,

[H] Declutter Your Desk (from Gizmo's Newsletter

2007-10-16 Thread Al
http://www.decluttered.com/ -- Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>