Re: My Computer (drives recognition)

From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_Notsocal.rr.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:00:27 GMT

      I had a flaky cdrw drive do that when I had a disk in. Have you
checked for virus, spyware, adware and trojans lately?
      If not then try these websites.

               http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

                 http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

            http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html

"soundsgood2me" <soundsgood2me@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E0F91D5-460B-434E-B59F-920948B5A129@microsoft.com...
> When I click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop I get an hourglass
> and
> it searches FOREVER-meaning I could go to dinner and then come back, and
> it's
> still working on it-but eventually it does come up suceessfully and
> recognizes all my drives properly. What could be causing this severely
> slow
> condition? -It never did this before. All the drives (A:, C:, etc.) that
> I
> click on from there work properly w. no problems.
>
> Frustrated

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