Ayla
September 19th, 2002, 06:26 AM
My computer constantly freezes (one out of three times) whenever I try to log onto my school's network. I've tried to speak to my school's IT staff but they have no idea what's wrong. I have a Toshiba laptop, Satellite, running Win ME. What happens is that it starts up fine, gets up to the log on screen, I'll log on and then it'll freeze, keeping the blue screen as the background. Considering this happens every 1 out of 3 times almost, it's getting to be rather of a problem. Sometimes it happens twice in a row, sometimes three times, and most times Ctrl, Alt, Del won't work, but when it does work, there is usually only two programs running. I usually have to press the reset button at the back. Any idea what's wrong?
Another problem I have with it is that sometimes I turn it on and none of the programs will open. Not Word, not Excel, not Access... nothing. Which obviously means that it has to be rebooted. I'd just press the button on the taskbar down the bottom, and it won't open the programs, however, My Computer and other folders will open. When I press ctrl, alt, del, then it shows several winwords (however many times I've pressed the Word icon). It doesn't matter where I try to open Word from, it just won't open, not from the Program folder either. And it sounds like it's going to open it by making thinking noises, but it doesn't open.
And yet another problem is with disk defrag, whenever I try to run it, it won't run properly. It'll get through about ten percent and then say that I have a program running that I should close. The problem is that I don't have a program running. It doesn't matter whether I've just started the computer up or have been using it for 6 hours, disk defrag won't work. I've talked to IT people about it and it seems that it's supposed to be a inherent windows problem. Anyway to get around it?
And last problem. :) When I delete programs I find out that I have LESS disk space rather than MORE. Seems to make clearing out the hard drive pointless.
I hope that someone can help,
Ayla
Another problem I have with it is that sometimes I turn it on and none of the programs will open. Not Word, not Excel, not Access... nothing. Which obviously means that it has to be rebooted. I'd just press the button on the taskbar down the bottom, and it won't open the programs, however, My Computer and other folders will open. When I press ctrl, alt, del, then it shows several winwords (however many times I've pressed the Word icon). It doesn't matter where I try to open Word from, it just won't open, not from the Program folder either. And it sounds like it's going to open it by making thinking noises, but it doesn't open.
And yet another problem is with disk defrag, whenever I try to run it, it won't run properly. It'll get through about ten percent and then say that I have a program running that I should close. The problem is that I don't have a program running. It doesn't matter whether I've just started the computer up or have been using it for 6 hours, disk defrag won't work. I've talked to IT people about it and it seems that it's supposed to be a inherent windows problem. Anyway to get around it?
And last problem. :) When I delete programs I find out that I have LESS disk space rather than MORE. Seems to make clearing out the hard drive pointless.
I hope that someone can help,
Ayla