Problem???

[Gluk Schmuck]

STOP, don't click the link!
(just in case you do that automatically)


Explorer has crashed several times when visiting the folowing topic:
Question on personal photos

why???

it happened once, i restarted, i went again, i went again, again, i'm writing this...

what's up???

[Aimz the Glukkon Queen]

I haven't experienced this problem.... but I won't click on the link, just in case....

Oh Gawd, it had nothing to do with me posting all those links did it??

[Pilot]

I've troubleshot many machines that would have problems going to certain webpages, but worked fine otherwise? Gluk, I assume you're a pretty computer literate individual like myself, so if you feel up to it, set up a permanent swap file, instead of the temporary one that's in there by default. (I assume you're using Windows 95/98/ME?) This has worked about 85% of the time for me.

[Gluk Schmuck]

i am, very...but what's a swap file???
BTW, i'm using ME

[Pilot]

A swap file, AKA Virtual Memory, is space on the hard drive that Windows can use as extended memory. By default, windows is set to "Let windows manage virtual memory." The only problem with this is that the size of the file is constantly changine around, so that uses up system resources. It is a whole lot more practical to create a "Permanent" or set-size swap file so that windows doesn't have to worry about changing the size of the file all the time. To create a permanent swap file:

1. Right-click on My Computer and select properties.

2. The System control panel will come up. Select the Performance tab on the top.

3. Click on the Virtual Memory button.

4. Most likely, the top bubble will be selected- "Let windows manage my virtual memory settings". Select the bubble that says "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings."

5. The next step will be determined my how much hard drive space you have. If about 1gb is free, then enter 350 in both the Minimum and Maximum fields. If you have multiple gigabytes free, then go ahead and enter 1000 in both the fields. An entry of 1000 will technically make 1 gigabyte of RAM available to your system, in addition to the actual extended memory installed on the motherboard.

6.Click OK, It will warn you that changing this and that blah blah... answer yes. and restart. This operation will free up some system resources and also fix some problems associated with Internet Explorer.

[Gluk Schmuck]

ahhh...cheers, i'll try that...

4000 Bytes...do you think that'll be enough???


woohoo...it works...

oh, BTW, my monitor isn't clicking anymore...thet's probably just the calm before the storm...let's hope that's not the case...

[ October 06, 2001: Message edited by: Gluk Schmuck ]

[Pilot]

Well, an entry of 4000 means 4000 megabytes, so essentially that would take up 4 gigabytes of hard disk space and give you 4 gigabytes of extra ram.

[Gluk Schmuck]

hehe...that's just one of many uses for an extra HD!!!

hmmm, i'll have to partition it at some point...

actually, i've forgotten how to partition the drive...after i've formatted it what do i do??? (bearing in mind i don't have any specialist software)...lol, i'm just an advise leech aren't i!
i'm gonna split it into 1G and about 13G...

[General Drippik]

Alright, I'll click the link..... Maybe not. Look, is this a prank or not? Ooh, maybe if I use netscape....

[Gluk Schmuck]

no, this isn't a prank...my computer was just a little dodgy, so it decided to crash Explorer every time i visited that URL...

apparently you seem to be having similar problems with the "Scariest site on the internet"...

[Pilot]

Partitioning takes place before formatting. Use the program called FDISK to manage your partitions. If you're interested, I can email you a program called System Commander 2000- it lets you have multiple OSs on different partitions, and also comes with a partition manager which lets you resize and convert partitions. It's warez, though.