Howard

I am really starting to hate computers. I went to reinstall the image from what was a bootable USB drive and windows would not recognize it nor another USB drive. I tried changing the data cable and still no luck. Took it down to my wife's computer and same problem. Not sure why but after many more hours of frustration I tried another power supply for that drive and it worked fine. I think I may have gotten hit with a power spike, as both of these USB drives had issues and my MBR just got blown away too. Used Acronis True Image to restore the MBR and the machines seems to be running ok now. Computers are great when they work well, which is becoming less and less

What type of competition, IDPA or USPSA or something else? If USPSA you might want to consider a Glock G22 so you can shoot major rather than a 9mm which would be minor power factor.

Well I tried Msconfig and did a clean boot with just MS stuff loading and it worked fine. So I put almost everything back in except some programs I have not used in ages and it still worked fine. I had also unplugged and older USB2 external drive, so that might also be the issue. It may take a long time to figure this one out. I was a little to busy to mess with this as I was tied up most of the day yesterday with installing my new router - a task that should have been plug and play but took about five hours. Everything worked great on the new router except my one main computer. It was a darn intermittent thing that makes it even worse. The net would run on my machine, but then it would stop and sometimes pages only loaded partially and not all images. Went crazy. Thought it might be rules in my firewall which did not like the new router name or something. Finally tracked it down to my old network wiring. I first hardwired the house almost 20 years ago and it was almost impossible to get CAT5 cable. Back then everything was 10 meg/sec. Evidently the 25 foot cable from the router to my PC was up to the job at 10 and even seemed to work fine at 100 meg/sec, but with the new gigabyte speed of this router it was not a happy camper. Of course existing hardware was the last thing I looked for. So, after many hours of cursing and frustration I put a different cable in and now have to worry about speeding tickets

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I pick a Kimber and a S&W Performance Center 1911, why - cause those are the two I have and love.

Yea! Makes me feel like all my letter writing, faxing, message of the day of his FB page and trips to Trenton were almost worthwhile!

I'll try a bunch of this stuff over the weekend. It is not something that is slowing startup, everything starts up quickly. Its just the strange way windows explorer is functioning. I can kill it and then re-run it and it is fine, so something is somehow latching itself onto it I am assuming - but none of my anti programs are finding anything.

Well then why bother with the Internet then? I am having it re-index right now, if that does not fix it I will try with Indexing off.

rscott1782 I don't think it is the broken thumb nail issue as once I kill the explorer.exe process and then restart it the problem is gone, if it was the thumb nails that would not fix it I don't think. sure shot I don't see that would get me there either as stopping the process and then restarting it seems to fix it. I am guessing that there is something that is somehow attaching itself to explorer and that by killing it and restarting it I detach that something - the trick is how do I find that "something"

No don't have a recovery partition, but I do have an Image of the system I made about a month ago that I could restore - but that will be the last resort as I hate to do that unless I can't find some other fix.

Thanks. RKILL did not find anything. I ran AUTORUNS but am not sure what I am looking for - it reports so much stuff that it is information overload. I guess I need to run it when the problem happens and then perhaps after I kill explorer.exe and rerun it and see if there is anything that is no longer there????

I am starting to hate computers, I used to love them, but..... When my Win7 x64 system first starts up about half the time if I open windows explorer it does not show any files and has a green bar going across the top that never finishes. If I kill the explorer instance and the explorer process that has all the desktop icons and start menu I can then run the task explorer.exe and all is fine. What is going on??? I've scanned with Symantec Internet Security, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Hitman Pro - none find any current issues. Just ran the SFC /scannow and it reported, "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations" Any clues what to do next?

Welcome to 1984.

If its a cost thing then check out Craigslist.org, you can often find good deals from people selling phones that they have upgraded from. Just meet them at a Verizon store to make sure the phone will activate before you pay them as there are many scams with stolen phones. I have done this twice with great success.

Why not one of the other candidates, if she wins she would be even worse. The only reason I know there were others is that they had me registered as the enemy, gosh darn screw ups. It took 20 minutes with the idiots at the polls on the phone with someone till they finally gave me a provision ballet as they admitted it was their screw up. Got to love our electoral system where they don't have you show any ID and then the pick how they want you to be registered.

Thanks for the positive feedback on the pictures everyone.

Yea I was just having fun. We have a hunt where I live and they bagged ate sat ten deer in my back yard last year

Then you might be able to use your gun on one of these: Even in a Free state, I hope you would not use it on this one:

I saw this on FB, think I may need professional treatment for withdrawal while it is closed

You could always put full size mags in and have 15+1 capacity with the .40 cal.

This is just another example of how stupid NJ laws are. It is OK for you to inherit a gun from your grandfather when he dies, but if he is alive it is illegal for him to give you the gun. Someone please explain to me how the net effect is any different and why the law should allow one but not the other. Just stupid.

Congrats. You realize you have already ruined their lives posting their privates on the internet where they will stay forever

I assure you if you follow the instructions correctly and logout, verify email then login then click on settings and plan there will be an upgrade box to get you the 50 gigs:

Yes, at first but do what I said. Validate your email and log out. Then use the original link and the instructions. I did it tonight and it gave me the 50.

AT&T is offering 50gb free storage related to its Locker mobile app. Just create an AT&T access ID on this site - where it says "Get yours now, it's easy AT&T Locker Welcome Link https://locker.att.net/app/#welcome After you set up the account you will get a verification email. Verify then logout. Go back to the original link and login. Click on account settings, then "My Plan." There should be a button to upgrade service. 50gb will be an option. My understanding is that this is promotion for att service and Windows Phone, but I signed up and upgraded works. There is a neat app for mobile phones that will upload all your photos and then upload future ones as you take them too.