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To: Nemer who wrote (43329)	1/11/2001 10:59:20 AM
From: Chip McVickar	Respond to of 44573

Here's what Johnny said to do: >>..... were you doing a lot of charting before this happened....... the mouse is usually the first thing to go when you start running out of resources.......(i.e. ram)..when the machine starts up .....before you do anything right click on my computer .... go to properties.... then performance...... and see what you have for system resources...... ( it should be at least 80%) the more applications you have running in the background the more resources you use up)..... in the right-hand corner of the screen where the clock is located ..... there are icons of things that are running....... close those that you dont use..(right click and you can shut them down usually )... this will free up resources..... also..... the more you "tax" the machine during the day the more resource that will be used up ...... you may want to shut down and restart the computer mid-day if your doing "heavy" graphics work or have lots of pages open....... this will free up some ram-memory...... as for the defrag...... make sure you have no screen savers or any applications in the background running when you do the defrag ..... otherwise it will keep restarting..... ( it will restart on its own enough)........the defrag will take a while so by all means start it after dinner in the evening and let it run....... keep and eye on it to see if it is making progress and go to bed and let it run..... (also make sure the power saving to the monitor is not running....... that will restart defrag in some cases also.) ..... let me know how you make out.......<<