A couple of days ago right before my eyes, my y2k file (in my favorites list) and all the sites in that file, vanished from the screen right before my eyes. Several of you wrote in suggestions to help me find them again (by going to START, FIND, SEARCH, etc.) I did find them, and put them all back in a y2k file in the favorites list. Everything was fine yesterday, and I got my daily fix of the oil report, plant status report, this forum, looked up some recipes, etc.etc. Never figured out what happened, but it all turned out OK.

Well, this morning, I turn on the computer, click the favorites button, and the whole favorites line is full of y2k stuff....3 y2k files, and in each file are sites I've never even seen before!!! Before, I lost and found 7 sites. Today I have 22...

Is somebody doing VOODOO on my computer???

This is so funny!! I've only had a computer for 11 months, and I love it! It's just amazing what it can do, with or without me!

Anyone have an idea how these new sites could suddenly place themselves in my favorites list?

-- Margo (margos@bigisland.com), February 24, 2000

Answers

Gee, Margo, what do you expect your computer to do at night after you've abandoned it? Play solitaire?

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), February 24, 2000.

Lol, Brooksbie.

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), February 24, 2000.

I keep mine busy with SETI online when I'm not using it. That way, it doesn't have time to think up ways to frighten or annoy me. I has to grind packets of data from outer space. Idle computers are the devils playground.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), February 24, 2000.

>I has to grind packets of data from outer space. Idle computers are the devils playground.<

Very cute Ms. kritter, however, I always heard that it was "empty pockets" that were the devil's playground.

Either way, SETI is a good and useful means of keeping a PC busy. Mine seems to just love it.

As for the replicating y2k files: We told you that y2k isn't over yet. It just keeps on giving and giving...

S.O.B.

-- sweetolebob (buffgun@hotmail.com), February 24, 2000.

Hi Margo,

Someone is playing games with you, either in your residence or on- line if you have a cable modem or ADSL which are always connected. If the latter, you need a free firewall product like Zone Alarm.

Do you leave your computer on at night? Maybe you need to put the keyboard under your pillow. LOL!

John

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), February 24, 2000.

hahaha!!!!!! i guess ya didn't READ all of the answers to yer question..... I DID warn ya about the "GREMLINS"! change the name of the folder......AND ....definitely get a firewall! You Lady are being messed with! the little critters/ gremlins are playin'!....ummmmmm...at least IMHO! Pat

-- Pat (yer not alone@metoo.com), February 24, 2000.

What I want to know is how did my computer go from rreeeaall slllooowww in booting up, sometimes as long as twenty minutes, diconnecting from the WEB every ten minutes and generally acting goofy as in freezing up.

After the rollover this thing is booting in seconds, never disconnects, and hasn't froze.

Do computers evolve? Can they fix themselves?

Anybody got a clue?

I don't mind it working but...I didn't do anything to help it, and as far as I know no ones worked on it.

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), February 25, 2000.

These damn computers ARE sentient. Ever had a problem with yours that you could reproduce with unerrant precision at every try, but when the tech is with you the blasted machine works flawlessly and you can't FORCE it to misbehave?

I'm usually the guy at the other end. I cannot tell you how many times I've had someone call me with computer problems they can reproduce on command only to have them not be able to duplicate the problem in my presence for ANYTHING. But, by the time I get home they've called me 2 or more times saying how it blew up exactly as they tried to make it blow up when I was there, moments after I left. It's like they "smell" the presence of a guy or gal that knows what time it is and play nice to placate them until they can get back to privately screwing with the mind of the "owner" of the machine.

That and the fact that they have a tendency to "forget" data conveniently and spontaneously "remember" things you thought were LONG gone...

I tell ya, computers are evil. ;-)

O d d O n e

-- OddOne (mocklamer_1999@yahoo.com), February 25, 2000.