Greetings Everyone ...
Over the last week or so, I have spent a lot of time with almost all of the Tweaking.Com products. If I could buy Tweaking.Com a drink, I would. You, Tweaking.Com, have taken an almost abandoned HP Presario 2212us lap top and restored it to pretty darn near new performance. The only way I can tell you how impressed I am is to simply say "I AM impressed". So, Thank You.
At no time during that week, did your software give me any idea of a failing hard drive. I did mention that I had seen the rotating blue circle more than I though I should. However, whenever I asked for it, Windows had never failed to run ckdsk successfully and send me off for another day in the digital sandbox.
Until today, that is.
This morning I went through the entire rig-a-marole that comes along with Windows trying to alert me to the fact that the death of my hard drive is just seconds away. It was very hard to follow, especially since a person would tend to be a little bit anxious at that moment anyway. I made the decision that since the old lap top didn't have much on it that I couldn't live without, I made a quick DVD with my good stuff and decided to let the issue play itself out and see what happens. The blue indicator light that shows HD activity is blinking away just like it always did. I see nothing at all, but, from time to time, even my typing slows down. But, then it speeds right back up and, so far, so good. The HP is clicking along like a warm spoon in a bucket of strawberry ripple.
So, I would like to ask you help with two things that might show this problem to be what it really is.
First, at some time in the past, before I put this laptop into retirement, I did some HD clean up. I removed a lot of stuff. It looks now like one of the things I removed is something that windows wants to run during bootup. At every boot up I get this message ... " *** ". I am sure that I removed this by mistake. So, the first question is, "How do I put it back?"
Second, at the moment the only access I have to the Internet is wireless. I have ATT Universe service that is supposed to be 6 mbs and the only outlet in the entire apartment is behind the desk in another room. I have this lap top in the kitchen operating off the modem that ATT provided. Is there any possibility that an irregular signal or an irregular modem/router would effect the computer enough to see the spinning blue wheel or provoke the HD problem routine from Windows.
While I am thinking about it, could it be a virus that is mimicking a Windows message trying to trick me into thinking I need to buy something?
I am going to post this, and then run both the Quickie and the Full Boat fixes and I will let you know what happens.
Thanks all ...
John Washbush
Bloomington, Indiana