Jeremy

I did a lot of disk intensive activity yesterday and overnight, Diskeeper had my drive down to 0 fragments except for when I resized my page file and browsed the net just now to get to this topic. LLXX, I think you don't know what you're talking about at all.

What? Control Panel > Administrative Tasks > Event Viewer. Open it. Click "Application" and "System" and check some of the most recent entries to see if they have anything to do with the explorer.exe process.

From the sounds of it you've had a massive infection that's totalled the system. Let us know how the format and reinstall go. Cheers.

Post a HijackThis log but attach it to your post. Do spyware scans with Ad-Aware SE, SpyBot, CWShredder. Do an anti-virus scan with Kaspersky. Download Dial-A-Fix, select everything and click "Go". Click Start > Run > type in "eventvwr" without quotations and look under System and Application to see if anything related to explorer.exe occurs recently.

Would you mind being a bit more descriptive? What problem(s) are you experiencing?

Are you able to provide a screenshot?

Sometimes I'm up till 5 AM and my "overnight" hours vary constantly. How is it risky to defrag in the background? All files do get defragmented and an analysis will show that.

Battlefield 2 is FUN!

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=112#112

I stand corrected.

I'm not running x64. The reason why memory usage concerns me particularly regarding anti-virus software is, why use a bloated piece of software that installs 100-200 MBs of files on your system and takes up 100 MBs of memory when another program has a higher detection rate, works harder to remove viruses and uses less filesize and memory? I'm not speaking of exact numbers, just generalizing.

DirectX On FileHippo I guess when the new one comes out, it will be there. I don't see any reason to update, though. I'm using what came with SP2 and I've had absolutely no problem whatsoever with any games, be it emulated ROMs or PC games. There also is no changelog, so I find this pointless. I'd say go ahead with your backup.

I use Diskeeper 2007 so i shouldn't have to defragment my drive, as InvisiTasking should do it for me. But as I do the SETI@Home, I never have any idle resources for it, since SETI takes 100% CPU usage but in low priority. I suppose I should stop that, then.

Link However: If that is true, then this shouldn't apply to me. But, I'd like to point out two screenshots: From PerfectDisk From Diskeeper This particular area was fragmented in the 100s when I received the error. I'm no expert on MFT or Metadata, but I'm just saying it's a possibility this might be the cause of my error. I still intend to diagnose my harddrive as well with Ultimate Boot CD.

I hope you don't recommend things to newcomers because for them that is not simple. A very strange method.

New to what program? You mean Windows XP? There is no folder dedicated for your hardware drivers. If you wish to obtain backups of your drivers, use a program called Double Driver or Driver Genius Professional 2005 which will scan your system for all drivers and allow you to make complete backups of them for future use.

Your topic title is misleading. It lead me to believe you were missing ping.exe from C:\WINDOWS\system32. Please be more accurate in the future. 90,000 MS range? Sounds impossible to me. That's a strange one...

Well, suit yourself but I've tested multiple versions of Symantec, but not the latter, and was not impressed. Kaspersky and NOD32 offer reliability and performance as well, for a fraction of the harddrive space and memory requirements of Symantec.

If there was a problem with my harddrive that would result in the loss of my NTLDR, then I'd experience other HD-related issues to associate with the possibility of a failing harddrive, right? Well, I'm not. I'm willing to bet it was due to a severely fragmented MFT record/index, which Diskeeper unfortunately does not defragment, yet PerfectDisk does. I've already defragmented it in hopes of preventing the problem from re-occurring. But, I will run a harddrive diagnostic and report it back. No harm in doing that.

No, it tabs the start-up types and where the information is within the registry. AutoRuns does the same thing and shows even more. You don't need all that to control what start-up and what doesn't. It's a nice program, though.

Going from 128 MBs of RAM to 256 you'll see a speed increase. Going from 256 to 512 you'll see it. Going from 512 to 1024 you'll see it but not as much. Going from 1GB to 2GB, not really. Your system's not going to use all that RAM, you're just spending more money to give your system more memory to use if it needs it. It would only need it if you were doing video capture, conversion, benchmarking, application testing in VMWare, running multiple virtual machines, etc. If you're not maxing out your system like that then you're likely just wasting more money to have something to brag about. having 4 GBs of memory isn't worth bragging anyway. You'll notice a decrease in duration with a faster CPU, especially when you're doing video conversion/encoding.

Well, he hasn't specified whether or not he's using Symantec or Norton. They are within the same family of products but are two seperate products. Even still, both do have similar processes and services that install. Either way, they are both s***ty products. Money and resources have given them recognition and popularity, but they suck.

Symantec not working properly? What a surprise! ....... Go with Kaspersky and you'll never look back. Cheers. And incase you reply with "that didn't help me with my problem", I'd suggest just reinstalling the software and try an update.

ConvertXToDVD

You mean folders with the same name? If so, Start > Search > <Insert Folder name here>, specify that you are looking for folders, view search results. Identical files... I recommend jv16 PowerTools.