OK, I Blew It!!

[Paleo Pete]

I've been giving advice here, and bragging about my 3 year old Favorites folder...

So yesterday I added another hard drive, (Thanks bassvax, it works perfect), formatted C and reinstalled, everything went perfect, but I forgot to save my Favorites folder to another drive!!

So now I've lost links I had in Favorites for a long time, and will have to spend MONTHS to find some of them and get them back. Fortunately, a lot of them are on my webpage, and many have been posted here on the forums...

Otherwise, everything seems to work fine so far, but I'm only about halfway through with installations. I've installed the things I know are safe, Word 97, scanner software, etc, the other stuff I have to install and try a few days before installing anything else.

So right now I'm running on a basic system, without half the programs I usually have available, but so far the only problem is the usual IE 4.0 hang-ups I get every time. The 4.0 version included on the win98 CD has always been flaky. Will be installing 5.01 today, and that always fixes that. Not going to use the Earthlink version this time though. I think it was most of my problem last time. Only problems I ever had were with IE, (invalid page faults fairly often, nothing would fix it) and never had that before until I used the one on an Earthlink CD instead of the one saved on E drive...or is it F now...

Anyway, you can go ahead and call me an IDIOT, I backed up everything I needed except all those links...

Somebody kick me!!

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[Randy_tx]

You want links????..........I've GOT links......but how do you give em to someone else, other than cuttin and paste ??

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"I didn't have a relationship with that OS...Win ME."

[Randy_tx]

BTW..........I've never done it.......how do you "Clean" the hub of a CD Rom ?...I remember seeing a post where you talked about doing it and I dont have a clue of how to do it.

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"I didn't have a relationship with that OS...Win ME."

[Chuck]

I have been running IE5.5 Sp1 and for me it has been solid. I think they have fixed most of the hangs and page faults. I did download the entire 17 megs and installed it all. Prior levels of IE gave me fits and a lot of CTL-ALT-DEL or shutdown hangs.(Remedy POWER DOWN with nasty message about improper shutdown and scan.)

[BigBlue66]

Hey,

I too, have been running IE5.5 SP1 on both the home and work computers. I would recommend it. Error messages are a thing of the past.

Cheers,

Big Blue 66

[Paleo Pete]

Yep, IE 5.01 is about the best they've done yet, glad I saved the installation files from the last time. Installed it today and no problems. Backed it up onto tape long ago too, so I should have it available for a good while.

Randy: Take the top cover off, look inside. You'll see two round, usually black plastic hubs that squeeze the CD and spin it so the laser can read it. Clean them with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol, let it dry with the cover on for about a half hour, and reinstall it. SOme CD drives have the top hub mounted on a rectangular metal plate that you have to remove, then replace after cleaning. Others have them both accessible with no further tinkering than removing the top cover. Try it on an old CD ROM, it's not hard to do, and will save you a few bucks now and then when the drive sits there and spins for 3 minutes then gives you the "Unable to Read Drive X" message. That's dirty hubs. Most people think the drive is gone and replace it. I've fixed a dozen that way.

Links: Post them into a topic here in the After Hours Club, I'll check them out and add the good ones to the list. I'll be busy for the next few days looking up a few certain ones, and getting them back, and I have to hook up the old 340MB drive I had in here for storage, a partial list from 6 months ago might be on it. I can replace it temporarily if they are, have to hook up the Cyrix machine to find out.

The easy way: Click Favorites in the IE menu bar. Right click any link, click Properties. The window that pops up will have the URL in it, copy and paste that, rather than going to each website. That's how I post most of the links I post here in the forums, I had a TON of them in a Technical folder...Had about 8 or 10 categories set up- DOS, Windows, Win 3.x, Help Sites, General Info, Security, Modems, MS Knowledge Base in 4 sections (I really miss those!), Specs, BIOS and so on...Must have had close to 200 links in there...Now I have to start over.

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