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More info?)
True, computers are not VCRs or refrigerators. My kids are
23 and 35, the 23 year old uses my computer (his limited
account) just to check email and do eBay and my 35 year old
just bought himself another computer.
But like we both hope, maybe in all the fog of war, er
computer newsgroups, some truth may be found.
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"I like toys and cake" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:1095532671.11547.0@sabbath.news.uk.clara.net...
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| "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote
in message
| news:%23tZeheanEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| > If you had posted all the thread, you'd see that this
was a
| > "sudden" and spyware, viruses and children using P2P all
go
| > together. I don't think all children are perverts but a
| > great many do swap music, games and use P2P software,
which
| > opens the computer to the world since it is an insecure
| > server application.
|
| I'm glad to hear you don't think all children are perverts
but jumping
| to the conclusion that this problem is caused by filling a
drive with
| mp3s or by a virus is flawed and lazy analysis and rude to
assume
| someone's child likes to download porn. The poster stated
that the
| drive shows as 0 total capacity which a quick search of
virus
| databases shows, is not a symptom of any known virus
(without other
| more obvious symptoms) and although it is possible that
the OP has
| contracted a brand new virus it is more likely to be
hardware or core
| software failure
|
| > There may well be problems with the hardware, but
software
| > is more likely to be the cause of the problem.
|
| true, software does fail more than hardware but hardware
does fail and
| the symptoms of the problem point to the possibility
|
| > Let's take a poll, all the other people on this
newsgroup
| > can vote, do kids often download software and invite
Trojans
| > into a computer. Yes, or No.
| >
| Do you have kids? I can't count the number of times mine
have pointed
| out to my technophobic wife that something she is about to
do with a
| computer will result in a virus download or similar
potential threat.
|
| Kids aren't the problem, uninformed people are and most
kids are more
| informed about computers than most adults. If you think
the majority
| of kids have no common sense and are a danger to
themselves and others
| simply because of their lack of birthdays you are heading
for a rude
| awakening, my friend.
|
|
| > "I like toys and cake" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
| > news:1095528813.11712.0@ersa.uk.clara.net...
| > | "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
wrote
| > in message
| > | news:%23Cjtk8ZnEHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| > | > "Debbie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in
| > | > message
news:200201c49d9c$3a6eb790$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| > | > | Sorry, I am so computer illiterate...but I'm
guessing
| > hard
| > | > | drive space...I looked in My Computer and it shows
| > C:drive
| > | > | as having both zero total size and free space.
When I
| > | > | looked at the disk defragmenter it showed under
his
| > (C
| > | > | drive Capacity: 0. I tried to use the system
restore
| > also
| > | > | and it said there was not enough memory to run the
| > | > | program, that it would need more memory and
suggested
| > | > | running the disk cleanup to free up more space,
but
| > when I
| > | > | did that it showed only about 50b could be made
| > available
| > | > | with cleaning.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > Is your son using Kaza or another P2P file swapping
| > program
| > | > to download music? Very likely he is doing that
| > |
| > | Very likely? speak for yourself or your own children.
| > |
| > | >, or
| > | > downloading porn movies and he has used up all the
free
| > | > space on what is today a small hard drive. Also,
the
| > P2P
| > | > programs mean that there are probably a number of
virus
| > and
| > | > Trojan programs, some may have been reserved space
for
| > their
| > | > nefarious use.
| > |
| > | Assuming P2P software is to blame is at best, a huge
leap.
| > I am
| > | offended by your inaccurate view of all children as
music
| > pirating,
| > | perverts and I think the OP would be too. How can you
| > possible analyse
| > | the described problem and jump to that conclusion?
| > |
| > | > Reformatting and a clean reinstallation would be the
| > | > quickest and easiest way to fix this. And some
| > education
| > | > for your child.
| > |
| > | Re-installation is neither quick, easy or warranted
and if
| > anyone
| > | needs an education, it appears to be you.
| > |
| > | As for the OP's problem if the drive shows 0 total
size it
| > means that
| > | windows is not correctly identifying the drive for
some
| > reason (even
| > | though it is booting from it) I think this matter has
more
| > to it than
| > | can be discussed here and you should contact the
| > manufacturer if it is
| > | under warranty or take the machine to your local
computer
| > store. The
| > | total size is the drives capacity regardless of how
much
| > is used, it
| > | should show as +- 40GB as that is the size of the
drive.
| > If it is
| > | showing incorrectly all of a sudden it could mean the
| > drive is failing
| > | or any number of software errors.
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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