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Post Number: 21
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RadioActive
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2002,20:15 |
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swap files are not as much about the amount of ram you have. if your ram is not enough for the OS to run properly then your swap files would be accessed more, but that's not always the case. even if only half of your ram is taken, wnidows will still use swap files. usually the stuff that needs to be in the memory but is not often used or hasn't been often used is transfered to swap file since it's not needed immediately. all operatung systems do that to a certain extent, some less so some more so. even if you are not using any memory intensive applications, often your swap file will still be read. not much you can do about this. it's also noticable when your computer is on 24/7 and you sleep not to far from it. hard drives hardly ever stop spinning.
-------------- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
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Post Number: 22
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BlackFlag
Objections noted; Notes discarded.
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2002,22:18 |
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#1 HDs spin constantly. sometimes when they get old, they make noise while not even accessing. if that's the case, get a new drive asap. #2 if your HD is actually constantly accessing..... defrag, set a static swap file size, get rid of all the TSR's you possibly can.
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Post Number: 23
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forumwhore
Fear Me, I Am Change.
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2002,22:21 |
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Thanx, guys, I always put the puter to sleep when not in use just to keep the mileage off the HDD...
-------------- Posting from; El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
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Post Number: 24
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CaptainEO
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Posted on: Jul. 09 2002,11:11 |
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A few comments...
By "spinning all the time" do you mean the drive is just powered up / platters spinning, or that it is actually reading/writing data?
IMHO it is better to keep a drive powered up constantly than powering it on and off. Less wear and tear that way. (exception: laptop drives, where saving battery power is more important)
If the drive is constantly reading/writing... Try looking in the Windows Process Manager to see what's doing the I/O. (if you really want to know precisely what's happening, look on Google for a program called "NT Filemon"). I should warn you that a similar thing happened to my mom's computer recently, and it turned out the disk activity was a Klez virus deleting all of her files :O !
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Post Number: 25
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^Oni^
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Posted on: Jul. 10 2002,14:18 |
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Heh. Klez is a bugger. Symantec's removal tool is about 50% effective. Other than that, bleah. Won't leave. The only worse one out at the moment that I have seen alot of is w32/Loveletter.gen. Converts your mp3s, jpgs, etc to .vbs files and royally fucks up windows.
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Post Number: 26
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 11 2002,02:20 |
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Klez can lick my hairy butt. Last month I was getting it several times a day.
Norton sure jumps on though. I like that it scans the outgoing email so I'm not spreading it.
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Post Number: 27
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^Oni^
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Posted on: Jul. 11 2002,13:37 |
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If Norton is catching it in your inbound mail, then you never caught it which means you can't spread it. And that's a good thing.
It scans your system's address books, cookies, offline content, etc looking for email addys. It compiles a list of them, sends itself out via a small winsock app to all of those emails and then chooses one at random to be the "From:" addy. Interesting piece of writing, but pain in the ass once it's in there.
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Post Number: 28
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demonk
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Posted on: Jul. 11 2002,23:57 |
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Quote (Wiley @ 05 July 2002,19:13) | Speaking of fun with .cpl files try this little bit of joy. When at the home of your wifes close girlfriend, place a disturbing picture as the desktop wallpaper (I used a picture of a girl sucking off a horse) and delete the desk.cpl file. Then watch the drama unfold as they can't change the desktop picture. I'm telling you it hours of fun. ...until the wife turns on you. |
I just wanted to tell you that you have given me a very nice, very evil new weapon in my war on sanity. I"m referring to the sanity of my friends, not mine. That went bye bye a decade ago. Thank you. Now to go cause on particular person some headaches <insert Dr Evil laughter here>
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Beldurin
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Posted on: Jul. 12 2002,05:07 |
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yeah, klez is a little bitch since it has its own SMTP engine...
Quick tip, turn off the preview window in your email proggy (outlook, outlook express, eudora, calypso, etc). That's how virii of that type auto execute.
-------------- If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name.
You haven't solved anything.
-- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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