Do you like to watch your disk defragmenter?

Once I start looking at it, I find it very difficult to drag myself away. It isn't very interesting really, but for some reason I find it very compelling. I wonder how much the imagery conveys about what is really happening.

I don't watch it. I usually get it going and do something else.

I use it, but don't watch it. Mark or I set the defrag up and then go to bed and let it work as we sleep.

Just a note to Nthensome-my sister doesn't live with me so she couldn't defrag the computer here, it's not even mine, it's my roommates and the library staff does all the maintenance including defragging at the library. That's not something patrons are allowed to do.

it's sort of like watching the stuff on seti @ home.

I do sometimes! Makes me sleepy...

I like to watch

How about just no?

I am not familiar with it and have never watched it.

My what?

If I'm going to have to look after my computer when I go to university, I'm really going to have to learn how to take care of it! (I'm getting my own computer to take to university, how exciting!!!! )

No, that sounds dreadful.

*snork*

I've watched it once or twice. I think if I still did smoke I could watch it do my C,D and E drives and not get bored.

Now, how did I forget that?

I use it, but I don't watch it. I've got millions of other things to do than watch it.

I have sat there and watched the thing work; it is hypnotic. Now, I set up the computer to defrag after I've gone to bed.

Sadly I do!

heh heh heh...did heyzeus do this survey?!?!? for he likes to watch....

You must have been caught up in the moment!

I work at a computer service department so I watch them all the time, but I've quit staring for hours on end...

Oh which reminds me I need to do that.

But no I don't like watching it done anymore.At first when we first got our computer I thought it was really cool. Now I find it boring.

What an excellent idea I've never thought of doing it like that.I think that's how I'm gonna do mine from now on.

How often is one supposed to defrag their computer??

**pats you on the back** Don't feel so bad,I hardly ever do it.I forgot what the reason for that was.

i love to watch it actually!!!

Cleo! *runs over and gives you a big squeeze* I got my styrofoam names in the post on Monday 20th May 2002. Considering you seem to have posted them on Tuesday 14th that is pretty damn quick.

Sadly the postman had to be faced with me looking worse for wear in my paisley dressing gown. I'm not a morning person!

*runs off to continue with Cleo's gift which is probably gonna take another month to complete*


I LOVE YOU! xxxxxx

My old one was kinda cool, the new puter has a boring one.

I don't think there are any hard and fast rules. Doing it every day seems a bit excessive to me, but it wouldn't hurt. It should probably be done at least every few months. The more often you do it the less time it takes.

Sometimes I'll watch.

I used to watch it... but now when I have 36 gigabytes of less or more useful stuff on my hard drive, I don't even want to try to look at the process. When Windows 95 came out, it really looked fascinating, like all those new animations, the file copy animation for instance.

Don't worry so much about a gift for me.Your love & friendship is gift enough for me! I'm so happy that you finally received your styrofoam name.
However,I'm a little bummed out,that Biggles did not receive the tomato seeds that I've sent her over 2 weeks ago.....now.
I think they got confinscated or something.**POUTS** I'm sending her new ones this week.But this time I'm putting it in a box instead of an envelope this time.

Have you gone to Forum today? (Wednesday) I posted 3 assorted messages to you. One about a week ago.

((((((HUGS))))) you back! I love you too,Dino!

**feeling a bit stupid but still asks**
What is the reason for defraging....again? To compact files? Clean out all the useless stuff? Make the computer work faster & better? What?? I totally forget! Wait till you hit my age..... but than again Kate's memory seems to be perfectly intact.**scratches her head**
Must be me.

Did you ever receive my last e-mail?? Let me know okay?

I'm on my way to forum! Oh and the gift. I've been working on it for about a month now already amongst my busy lifestyle.

Okay I'll reveal what it is. Its some cross-stitch embroidery. Hardly a common hobby for a young(!) man in the city but I find nothing more relaxing than curling up on the sofa in the evening stitching into the night. And when it finally is finished please know that every stitch will have been stitched with love and affection.

Okay secret confession. When I first came on this site in October I saw that you did the styrofoam things. Then it got to about December and I got to know you really well and I really wanted one. But I could say could I really. Then I saw people come and get styrofoam and I sat there waiting. Then finally it was like I got the dabprovin seal of approval and that's why I was so happy to get my parcel on Monday. How stupid am I?

I'm familiar with the defrag function, but I don't own a computer. I use one of computers at the public library and used to use the one at my sister's house, but rarely do so any more.

I use it once in a while, but never watch it.

How cute! **pinches your cheeks** I love You!! Please take
your time. It's supposed to be relaxing project,not to be
rushed with. But I SO know what you mean,a form of therapy
so to speak. I surround myself with MANY projects (all at
the same time) that bring me great pleasure doing cause it
is (for that very reason) relaxing & un-stressful. The only
stressful part of it is the packing & mailing of them,that
I find nerve racking! **freaks out just thinking of all the
things I've put on hold today,just to go on line.**

But yes & will (& already do) feel ohhhh so VERY special,
knowing that someone as kind,sweet & loving as you **pinches
your cheeks** took the time out,to MAKE "ME" "Cleo",something
with his very two,own busy little hands.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Now you've
gone & done it,you made me cry.**wipes the happy tears away,
off of her cheeks**

I had NO idea that my styrofoam names,where so sot after by
some of the SC users. How weird! & on that note....I had no
idea that you secretly longed for your very own styrofoam
name either. Awwww you poor baby!! Had I known that
earlier,I
would've made you one for Christmas. Instead of waiting
this long to get yours now. That's cute tho,what you said
about the dabprovin seal of approval. Awwwww!
& your not stupid it's me! When you posted you comment in
Forum stating,that you had finally received your styrofoam name,cuteasabutton didn't have a clue as to what everyone
was talking about. Poor baby! So anyways,kate asked me
if I would make "cute" her name also.

But of course!

I want everyone here at SC,to have one.....eventually.
I usually go from survey to survey personally asking SC
users
if they would like to have their names done. As of yet,my
offer to do 4 SC user names has been turned down.
**making me feel all insecure** Not bad really.
Considering that I've made at least 8 or 9 times that number,
for those who DID want their names sculpted.
What a loss for them,cause
they'll never know,what their names might have looked like
in their favorite colors,sculpted out of a sheet,of your
everyday,throw away (in my case recycled) styrofoam.Perhaps
they'll take me up on my last & final offer in the near
future.

So I move on to the next SC person & ask again. Ah! This
person wants their name! Yay! **feeling all loved &
wanted again** I trot happily off to start another SC
users name.

I see now that,that way is taking WAY to long,for everyone
who wants one,to get a name.
So now,I've been pondering the thought of doing something
about that.....soon. Like this weekend or next week
hopefully. You'll see. You'll see what I mean.
Gotta run dear! I'm off to the post office before they get
too crowded....or worse ,close on me.

Maybe they're embarrassed to say yes (or maybe that's just a British thing) I know I would have been if you had asked me when I soon came to SC. It takes me about 3-4 months to come out of my shell (but worth the wait though)

As you can imagine it makes dating a problem. Infact I'm currently having that issue now with some Australian guy I'm seeing at the moment.

But anyway - I only said yes because we had communicated and joked and talked. You knew my flaws and imperfections. I knew yours - well I don't have list you understand but I know you have concerns about stuff and that makes you lovely.

If some jolly stranger bounced up to me baring gifts then I would get all stiff upper-lipped and British and politely decline their generous offer then ask them to step aside so I can be on my way thank you very much.

Us Brits eh?

While you are using your computer, various files get added and deleted. What happens is you wind up with files scattered around on your hard drive.

When you defragment, the files are scanned, then re-written so that associated files are adjacent. This helps to speed things up and make it more efficient. So yes, compact = faster and better. Cleaning out the useless stuff you have to do as a separate activity. Best to do it first.

I can see that now. Now that I think about it,I PROBABLY would've said no too,if I was first approached,also. Makes perfect sense to me now that I think about it.

I REALLY do things improve in your love life. EVERYONE needs someone to love & care for. Let me know how things work out for you & your special someone in the future.

But side stepping you here...... how is it that you can make those cute little emos???? I love them!

I've done it before. I conceived of a more advanced defragmenter, but i don't even recall at the moment what made it different.

Hypnotizing, mesmerizing. The Windows XP isn't as fun, but I still can't keep from watching it to the end.

Zang knows all about defragmenting.It's supposed to be good for it. Scroll back a few to Zangs last reply to me.

I think I'm just going to find a nice Computer Science student to flirt with at university so that they can sort out all of my computer problems

Isn't that crazy? I sit and watch that thing and I never get bored! Now that I have a much bigger drive, though, it's sort of losing it's appeal.

Good thinkin'! My son has a friend who is a computer geek and he helps me out when I need it.He's such a nice boy!

I'm just going to have to keep practising that eyelash flutter

You go, girl!

& that's why YOUR going to college........cause you're one smart little girlie. I never thought of that.

Print this, it would be a good thing to run the disk defrag if you've never done that: from the desktop, double-click "My Computer", right-click your c:\ drive icon, select "Properties", click on the tab (top) called "Tools". Assuming you have Windows and a pc-type - not Mac-type computer, it is here that you'll find three things you should be in practice of running for your computer. (Disk Defrag is the bottom option, but you should cleanup first.)
...Wha-- why are your eyes...fluttering like that? Is there something in your eye, Biggles? Well stop it, it's gross. jk!(=Just Kidding) But, seriously, your computer will love you long-time if you do those few things for it.

Did I not send you an e-mail on how to do cute emoticons?


http://digilander.iol.it/katalog/emo/No/no.html

*raises head from weekly ten minute nap*

Huh-hm?

*sees nothing, hits snooze button on alarm clock again*

My dad and brother have probably done it - they're the technical ones (well, they like to think that they are ). I'll ask them

I hate your stupid emoticon website > Crashes my computer every time I visit it.

I'll stick to the SC range!

Yes you did sweetie! I printed it out & now it filed away somewhere among the papers on my computer desk.But here's the thing......my 17 year old daughter uses this computer too & now I have to sift through alot of her papers & mine too.If you could please send me another one I'll put it in a separate manila folder away from her stuff. Please,please,please **hands in prayer position** send me another e-mail telling me how you do it.....again.Thanks Babe!

I read your comment to Biggles & I was just thinking ........"Hummmmm maybe I really need to do that." You know???? Defrag. How often should this be done?? I just purchased this computer in March 2002 & haven't done it yet. Been procrastinating. **looking sheepishly toward the floor**

Is that why my computer is downloading slower now??? Cause I sure have added a lot of sites to my BAR "Favorites" Something like 80 something or more. Other than that I don't download music or anything else. But I do have a lot of E-Junk Mail that I delete on a daily basis,then "EMPTY" that out as often as I can.

**listens intently for MY "computer guru" to speak words of wisdom**

I guess you can tell that I never bothered to read my computer instructions. **hangs head in shame**

Haha.
I defrag my computer at work weekly, and mine at home everyday. You could go to your "Files, Find" and type *.tmp in the entry box and click "Find" to search out all useless files on your system, then highlight and delete them all.
Then follow the Defrag instructions. That will definitely improve the performance of your computer. "Fragmented files" are files that have been "broken up" when saved because of edits, reserved workspace, etc. The Defrag utility sort of rewrites these files and brings them all to some sort of logical sequence, freeing up the space but - mostly - easing the readability of them.
Giver her a whirl and let me know how it goes.

Alrighty then. THANKS NthenSome. I'll do it right after the next 3 replies

Okay I sent it again. I just re-read what I wrote and all I can say it really is very complicated. I make a crap correspondance teacher. I'd be better in person

The main confusing points is me asking you to type things in but without the star symbol *. I had to put the star symbol in otherwise it would convert it into a picture and you wouldn't be able to read what I wrote.

Like this

<*img src="http://digilander.iol.it/katalog/emo/Simpa/forum_simp0072.gif">

but without the star. Do you know how to copy text quickly?

Now, why wouldn't you minimize the possibility of confusion and/or misunderstanding by simply omitting the star from the link before presenting it? Dino, Dino, Dino...back to instructor's class with you. Examine again the Remedial Course in the Provision of Visual Aids to Your Students.
*writes SC hall pass, tears it from pad, holds out for Dino to take, offers Dino no eye contact*

You try typing the above thing without the star and then come back and beg for forgiveness when you experience joy in providing your own visual aids. The sense of joy and achievement felt when the animated picture is revealed.
*sits patiently awaiting reply from Cleo with expectation and practices 'smug look'*

No......I haven't learned to do that.I'm still learning. But don't worry I'll print this out. & YOUR NOT a crap correspondence teacher!! I'm just a ding bat slow learner. Please stop beating yourself up. It's not you it's me!!! I have to be shown a lot of times before I finally get it. My teenage daughter usually has to teach me everything about our computer. TRUST ME she has no patience whats so ever!. Thank you sweetie! I love ya no matter what!! You are a great computer guru!!!!!!

NOW, what have you to say? (Since you didn't answer the last time - since, probably because I still have a problem with REPLYing to people directly.)
<.img src="http://digilander.iol.it/katalog/emo/Simpa/forum_simp0072.gif">

Well putting a 'period' in there is an alternative but now you have to communicate this by saying if someone wants a picture they should take away what?
*stares at NthemSome's frustrated face*

*lips quiver, hears sheets of paper being crumpled...thinks..."ammunition! I'll papered to death if I don't get out of this!"*
*thinks, thinks - realizes the incessant clearing of throat isn't distracting anyone*

*walks off to continue correspondance lesson (frustrated NthenSome didn't raise his hands in the air)*

Okay missy stop talking in the back of the class!

Right Lesson 3 is called 'How to copy and paste'

Are you ready!

Good. Now to copy text and put it somewhere else you first need to highlight the text by dragging you mouse across the text.

Once you have highlighted the text you then hold down the 'CTRL' and then press 'C'. Okay? Now you have temporarily saved the text.

To paste the text you need put your cursor where you want the text to be placed. Then hold down the 'CTRL' key and press 'V'.

Right - now for your first task I want you to reply a message to me and copy and paste the following text

<*img src="http://digilander.iol.it/katalog/emo/Simpa/forum_simp0065.gif">

Come on I'm waiting. Remember good girls get Ice Cream!

um...
uh, Din-ster? hey, psst remind her not to copy the star-thingy.
*winces, draws back*
You know, that mandatory star that has to be there, and it's a fine star in your case, I DO say, fine...
*takes seat where instructor-formerly-student once occupied, begins to take notes*
fine, yes fine star that is, indeedy...

No in this lesson I don't want to give the student too much to think about.

Repeat after me: "Baby steps"

This lesson is just about copy and paste.

And can you raise your hand before you speak to the teacher next time! >

I--...
*looks at hand that's been held high in air for fifteen minutes; drops it slowly to side, soundlessly; confused*
mumble, mumble -star- mumble - period, stupid dot thing - mumble, mumble

**looking all nervous & stressed** prints the reply out on paper first(sos not to lose it in cyber space)& decides to try it in a few minutes.
**rubs her lucky rabbits foot & adjusts her horse shoe hanging on the wall.**

**feels a surge of pride,jumps up & down clapping,yelling & dancing all around the room with much joy**

**chants**
I did it! I did it! I did it!
I'm number one! I'm number one! I'm number one!

Where"s my ice cream???

**looks all puzzled at the melted cup of ice cream just handed to her**

Okay! Okay! I understand now....
No * before the img I get it now!

Ummmm....teacher??? teacher?? **nudges Nthensome to go over & wake up the sleeping computer guru**

Hey you! Did you see what I did above?? **points to the copy & paste lesson**

I'm pretty good aren't I??** beaming with pride**

Thanks for the hint about the little * thingy. I was wondering what the hell I had been doing wrong all this time.

BTW I finally defraged my computer. It's not like the Windows 98 version.Very colorful & mesmerizing. This one is boring! Very boring. I have Windows XP now.**yawns**

What a scholar! Congratulations!
*looks to "Doctor Dino", slumbering; considers all his hard, dedicated work in his teachings lately; goes to fetch an apple for him*

**steals a bite of the tempting & all famed Apple**
Go on! I know you want to pat me on the back!

Thanks Nthensome!

BTW How can I find some of those cute little smileys that you & Dino seem to have such a large supply of??

Come on.......share that info................

I bought mine yesterday, from the following source.
http://www.regsoft.net/
But, if you want to hold off on the investment, there are some good selections from here (don't slight the five pages...there's a page navigator toward the top right of this site):
http://spider.zaireweb.com/grapemowak.php
Fun, aren't they?

I put them in my Favorites. Thanks babe!!

Oh I don't believe it! I'm so happy and proud I could cry.


*shouts* LOOK EVERYBODY! She's so beautiful. My little protegé.

*Goes off to brag to NthenSome about my cyber teaching skills.*

Yeah! See!


*adopts smug look*

Now if you paid a little bit more attention and were more like Cleo then maybe you too would get on a little better in life.

http://digilander.iol.it/katalog/emo/index.html

Okay so put that in your favourites. To obtain the link you click on one of the little pictures.

Your formula is as follows

<*img src="[link]">

If you'd like, I can be your assistant! I could be the reminder-to-be-sure-to-include-the-star-thingy in the syntax guy! Come on, let me help...

I can double-up as your "and-don't-misspell-'link'-in-your-link reminder person too! What do ya say? I promise to be good, just let me help, please!?!

What? Let you be 'point-out-the-teacher's-mistakes' guy?

Right young Joseph go and stand at the back of the class with your hands on your head and don't move until you can prove to me you have some healthy respect.

I'm currently telling your classmate, NthenSome off! There's always one student in the Dino School of Computer Excellence who has to be the mischievous one.

Please don't follow his example - your teacher's pet at the moment.

I know! I know! I was so surprised when I did it!

I almost fell out of my seat. It was almost like the first time,when I learned how to do the little smileys here. I wish that Bill would add some of YOUR smileys here. It would make the site a bit more colorful.


Go ahead.......pat me on the back!

I'll add the link to my favorites. Thanks Babe! Love you!!! **there should be a heart here**

**hands my favorite teacher a juicy red apple**

**snuggles up to the teacher** I love being the teachers pet! It has it's rewards.


**sticks her tongue out at Nthensome** That's what happens to bad little boys who talk out of turn!!

*takes juicy red apple*

Why thank you favourite student.

Now all you have to do is visit the site and click on one of the images and then copy the address bar. Its tricky at first but once you've done it once it get easier.

*from the ever-forgotten area of the classroom - the back*
I have to go the bathroom. Excuse me. I know I'm interrupting the engendering of genius from begatter-to-beginner and all, but uh...Uh! Excuse me! Excuse me, excuse me excuse me, excuse me...

I'll add the site to my favorites! Thanks again teacher of mine!

Awwwwwwwwwww! You haven't been forgotten......only terribly over looked.

**sticks her foot out as you pass** > Don't forget to wash your hands..............bad boy.

Mr...! Mr. Dino! Did you see...?!
I'm gonna...I'll get...You can't push me arou--

**Picks you up by the arm & dust you off.**

Awwww! It was a mistake!! My foot just slipped out into the isle.It wasn't done on purpose.

**looks around nervously for Master Dino**

Well...sniff! Do you...do you really mean it?

Yeah! You know I do! **crosses her fingers**

I like the advanced stats... for the disk defrag that is.

I love it. You should try it on marijuana.

That's okay, but a little too 70s/80s for me. I find crack enhances the experience to its fullest. (haha)

Ok how about acid?