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Re: Fastest drive. While using the fastest drive for the page file is good advice, it isn’t the only thing to take into account. In the OS/2 days, the mantra was always “the most used partition on the least used hard disk”. This may still be of value; if your fastest drive is heavily used but you have a slower-drive that is hardly used, it may make sense putting the page file on the slower drive. The reason for that is that the heads will do little other than accessing the pagefile, so will not need to skip around the disk, whereas on the faster drive they may be flipping between the pagefile and other files all over the disk. The reason for the “most used partition” advice is simply to reduce the time spent moving – the heads are more likely to be over the most used partition already, so have less distance to seek.
I’m not sure how valid these reasons are with modern disks – and if you use an SSD they are probably irrelevant – but it does mean that speed alone is not enough – and the article shows that even “speed” isn’t that simple!
Another useful piece of advice is to fix the size of the pagefile so it is in one piece (you may have to set the pagefile size to zero, reboot, defragment the disk, then reset the size to what you want and reboot again for this to work).

Been a bit busy, but I did go through event viewer and couldn’t see anything that gave a clue. This is still happening. In summary:
– Explorer shell process is still running, but not displaying desktop icons, nor allowing right-click on the desktop
– No other applications are affected
– If I kill the process, I would expect it to restart, but it does not, I have to manually restart it
– No evidence of it being due to network, disk or temperature problems.

Any clues?

It’s not a total hang, nothing else seems to be affected. All applications, networking, etc., are working normally. I generally only notice if I want to get at something on the desktop, which isn’t that often so it could be happening every few minutes and I wouldn’t notice. Which also means that I have no idea what else is happening at the time it occurs. Not even whether it happens when idle (and I only notice it later) or when active. I do know that once the desktop icons disappear they never come back until the explorer process managing the shell is restarted.
As suggested, I’ll take a look in event logs. I suspect if it were memory or temperature related, I would notice issues in applications, but I don’t.
The system is a Lenovo W510 running Win 7 Professional SP1, 64-bit, 8GB memory

I posted the following message at the ‘gettsatisfactions.com/mozilla_messing’ over a month ago but have received no response. I’m hoping someone here might have some insight on an answer. I’m using Thunderbird 3 on Win7 x64. Many of the emails I receive have been forwarded several times. When I forward them, the message becomes surrounded by 1 or more nested tables. Some of which have empty lines, text or graphics. Some can be eliminated by clicking on the circled x and deleting the useless table/cell. However, most can’t be deleted and the message remains in many nested tables.
Does anyone know how to get rid of all the extra outer tables? In MS Word 2007 I can merge cells or tables. Is there a way to do something like that?.

Just to prove someone here is trying to answer your question, not just take digs at TB, I use QuoteandComposeManager (http://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/realborders-en.html).

Does anybody know why, when you do this, Word insists on changing the tabs / indents, etc. to its defaults, even if you have changed the style? And, more important, how you can stop it! I am sure I used to have a Woody macro that did this, but in an “upgrade” I’ve lost it.

Does anybody know why, when you do this, Word insists on changing the tabs / indents, etc. to its defaults, even if you have changed the style? And, more important, how you can stop it! I am sure I used to have a Woody macro that did this, but in an “upgrade” I’ve lost it.

That did the trick, thanks.