Defragment your Winzip?!

[Aislin]

On my computer upstairs I clicked on disk defragmenter and winzip popped up. And then I did it again, and winzip poppped up. Still confused, I tried again, and winzip popped up.
...What's going on?

[NaliWarCow]

someone changed the winzip icon to the disk defragmenter icon and changed the name. Look at the path and make sure thats right, and then if that doesn't work, put a magnent to your hard drive.

[Aislin]

The magnet didn't work.









lol.

And it's not that, the path is correct. When I go into winzip it shows the file name for disk defragmenter inside. I don't get it.

[Aislin]

bump

[Soul]

Perhaps it's zipped? Is it a .zip file?

- Soul :s:

[Aislin]

I think it is zipped, is that what happens when you compress stuff you don't use on your HD?

I do disk cleanup a lot, but I haven't defragged in like a year, so maybe disk cleanup zipped up my defraggermabob?

Where do I unzip it to? how do I make it work again? what's going oooooon.

[Soul]

Unzip it with WinZip lol

- Soul :s:

[Aislin]

to where

[NaliWarCow]

My disk defragmenter is in C:\windows\system32. Just format. If you've got a cd burner, burn everything you need to cd's, and format, it works a billion times better than defragging.

[Aislin]

*gasps* That sounds like... insanity! that would require SO much re-installing, and like, 5 disks, not counting the one's my proggy's are on...

I think I'll pass, Nali. Maybe when I'm a 'risque' user like you, I'll try it out.

[reverendflash]

nali is right...

quicker and more efficient to format, and restore. If possible, take a drive image when you have a 0 install (all your basic progs), then when you reformat, it takes 1/10 the time to restore... there are shareware progs to do this kinda thing.

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[Jubba]

yeah it just reformated my computer. It is running so great now... like a brand new machine...

[Aislin]

yeah, I'm gonna sound stupid right now, but I honestly don't have the guts to take everything off, because I know I'll screw up.

I'll just try to figure that zip file out. lol.

[Jubba]

I format every couple of months.. keeps things clean and helps with viruses... because even tho I have 2 different anti-virus progs, some still slip thru, or some just refuse to leave, so reformatting makes sure that they are gone for good..

[Aislin]

I guess I should try it out sometime, especially since I really don't care to maintain this thing. I haven't run a virus program forever. Haven't defragged since I bought it. ETC.

[reverendflash]

Aislin:

1. back up all of your "important" files immediately.
2. buy a virus program. I suggest Norton Corp version.
3. install and use said virus program.
4. buy and install a back-up prog (NTI makes a beautiful one).

Get in the habit of doing this now, unless you want to learn the way we all did... by losing <u>all</u> of your stuff at the most inoportune time...

Then, reformatting is simple and refreshing. I have just reformatted a couple of my friends' machines, and they are soooooo happy...

serious... do these steps before you are sorry. It will happen.

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[Jubba]

Rev, I suggest AVG anti-virus software... I work in a small computer company, we do a lot of service work. On most machines that have Norton we run AVG and it picks up at least 2 or 3 viruses that Norton missed. Even with all of the updates...

once or twice Norton has picked up something that AVG missed however, but more often it is the reverse...

[reverendflash]

cool. I bow to your wisdom...

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[Jubba]

eh, just a suggestion. Thought you might want to check it out. I like AVG, but I actually have both on my computer for when I do a full-system check...

[reverendflash]

thanks, I will. I recently switched from McAfee, which my g/f still uses...

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