Shutting down/reboot and defrag

Both rebooting your system at least once every day or two, and defragging your hard drive about once a month will pay dividends in terms of system performance.

Scandisk has nothing to do with this. Jeez!

Brian

• Do you defrag? I was told (sm) - nm
  • Shutting down/reboot and defrag - Brian
  • It shouldn't be necessary to do it once a week but sm - Rad MT
  • Set it to defrag automatically once a week. nm - Scheduled tasks or something like that. nm

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Believe it or not, this is how I got mine to correct itself. 

1) Shut down computer.

2) Unplug computer from the wall.

3) Unplug the footpedal from the USB port.

Reconnect everything and restart.

Cross your fingers.

Empty your recycle bin, delete as many emails, both sent and received, as you can, then empty your "deleted items" in Outlook Express. Also, you might go through your Word documents and delete anything you don't need any more. If there are any programs you don't use, uninstall them.

Also, open your internet browser, go to Tools, then Internet Options, and click on Delete History and Delete Files.

THEN run defrag. If you use Windows XP, go to Start, then All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Defragmenter. Click on Analyze. The program will probably tell you that you need to defrag, so then click on Defragment.

Depending on the size of your hard drive, this can take quite a while (I have an 80 gig hard drive and it takes about 45 minutes to an hour). So you need to make sure you do it at a time when you're not going to need your computer for a while.

Then plug the headset in. Give it some time to find the headset. If this doesn't work, try checking the Device Manager. In XP it's Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers. Click on the plus sign and see if anything is "crossed out" in that list. First try to right click and check the Properties. If it is not working proerly try the Troubleshoot button. Click on the Driver tab and update the driver. If neither of these work, go back to the Device Manager, right click on the USB port in question and Scan for Hardware changes. If none of these work , uninstall the driver. Remove the headset from the USB port and then plug it back in and see if the computer can now find it and install the driver.

If you're plugging the headset in and unplugging it without removing without the "safely remove hardware" icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen, you are disabling the USB port until the computer is restarted again. Always use the hardware removal tool!