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halfrek, you'll probably need to boot windows into safe-mode to insure that nothing is running that can interfere with the defrag.
The link below gives two methods to do this.
Once Windows has started in safe-mode, run the defrag like you usually would.
One was DSSagent.exe installed by Broderbund with my genealogy software.
One was tgcmd.exe, which came with Sony's system backup.
Two came with Quicken: QTTask.exe and LoadQM.exe
I think that was all.
thank you, dcp and tommyrot. glad that i am NOT the only one that has had this problem. i will definitely give it a go tomorrow. of course now i am wondering why the other computer people in the house didnt know how to fix this. *glares in their direction*
I have had no end of trouble with Windows ME on my laptop. I think that is the devil's operating system. I really do.
I have a (probably clueless) question about Yahoo mail's address book. It has a feature that will let you import those addresses into another mail program. Sadly, that feature does not list Apple's mail program. Would telling it to import to Outlook Express work, even though I'm not using OE?
Oh for god's sake. I dl the thing, and now I can't unzip it.
I've put the unzipped version here: [link]
I won't be tooo offended if you ask another buffista to virus scan it before you download.
Virus scan, I got. :) Thanks, grommit. Looking at all its little screens, it doesn't seem like there's anything running that shouldn't be. There's a ton of Symantec and Norton things going on, but I'm a-scared to touch them.
The guy who upgraded my system is coming over tomorrow night to take a look at it. I will loom over him menacingly until the system works again. He is bigger than me, but his fiancee is my friend, so I have leverage.
Virus scan, I got. :) Thanks, grommit. Looking at all its little screens, it doesn't seem like there's anything running that shouldn't be.
Good to hear. If you have the choice to switch to Windows XP, do so. Just make sure it's done as a fresh installation (complete with reformat), and not an upgrade of the existing Windows ME setup.
Needless to say, backing up your data beforehand would be a good idea.
Windows ME is a fancier version of Windows 98.
More like bolluxed and bloated and hamstrung and labyrinthine...
Sadly, that feature does not list Apple's mail program.
Apple's address book application (called, unimaginatively, Address Book) can import from either vCard or LDIF format. It looks like the format named "Netscape Address Book" is actually LDIF and will import into Address Book.