This morning I spent several hours cleaning up my hard drive as it seemed my computer was running slow. In the process of deleting files I went into my kids folder and found they had saved about 1500 images from the web of horses and chickens mostly!!! ](*,) What they thought they were going to do with these should be an interesting discussion.

Anyway, I tried something a co-worker told me about that I've never done before "defrag the hard drive". Windows has a function that sorts files and realigns them to clean up and consolidate the hard drive space. Some files are split into several locations on the hard drive and the defragment program fixes that and consolidates the files.

Anyway, it took the program about 45 minutes or more to complete the job ... but things seem to be running faster.


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Oh yeah ... if you just go into the search mode and type "defrag" windows will take you through it.

Horses and chickens?

Yes, apparently the 2 horses in our barn aren't enough for them! I'm thinking if they have time enough to save 1500 images, they have time to muck out the stalls! :wink:

hehehe.....

Maybe they are giving you a hint at what they want for their Birthday. :-)

You have no idea ... There is this thing about the XX chromosome combination and horses. My wife loves horses ... has three ... although in theory one of them is mine. I have 4 daughters and they are nuts about horses. Books, toys, pretend games ... horses ... horses ... horses.

Well, its better now than when they're teenagers ... boys ... boys ... boys.

If I had a dime for every time someone has told me I'll need to get a shotgun when they're teenagers. :roll:

When you save files in Windows the files are saved as chunks in different locations on the hard disk. The files are fragmented because fragments of the file are saved in different places. As more and more files become fragmented, the hard drive "heads" have to move a greater amount to find the files, but when the hard drive is defragmented, these fragments are moved closer together which makes file access time quicker, which is why defragmenting a greatly fragmented hard drive can lead sometimes to noticeable improvements in performance.

A little hint, dgruss23: only use the shotgun when necessary, e.g. when they fall for some huge, stupid, sadistic [BLEEP]...

Don't get a shotgun, that could lead to jail time. Just have every boyfriend have a hour long interview with you. Take them into a dark room with a spotlight and tie them up. Put electrodes on their writ=sts and hook it up to a printer orsome other electronic gadget. Then pretend its a turth machine and have fun with him :-).

And have it print "LIAR" everytime they answer a question.

Just remember to remain calm.

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I dunno about the shotgun... I have met way too many fathers who are all too eager to murder anyone outside their family who dares to talk to their children. I understand the instinct to protect one's family, but it should not be carried to the extent of insanity.

Hahaha well thats probably going to be all the time remember teenage girls (and boys more so) lack the thing called common sense. I was luckily gifted with it and have managed to avoid any form of relationship...

... im not sure if thats good or bad

Normaly kids want to go out with people to annoy their parents, once they realise their only dating jerks they straighten out... and then dgruss23 you'll get to have the real fun.

You could also take a cue from the movie "Clueless":

Father telling his daughter's date: "Anything happens to my daughter, I've got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt very much that you'll be missed."

Usually, "anything happens to my daughter" includes "saying hello to someone". Parents should be a hell of a lot less paranoid - not all boys are violent, sadistic dolts, and not all girls are greedy, twisted - well, you get the idea. Generally, though, being ultraparanoid like that is either a symptom of living in a bad neighborhood (in which case it is quite justifiable) or of being a redneck (in which case it is not justifiable at all).

It really amazes me sometimes how we can go from talking about computer hard drives, to shooting teenage boys in less than 1 page. :P

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In 6 posts too! :-D

I also liked the routine Will Smith and Martin Lawrence pulled in Bad Boys II when the young man showed up to take out the daughter.

Well, I'm not really planning on sporting a shotgun for meet the boyfriend night ... but I suppose that's easy to say right now!

Wait ... this thread was about computer hard drives? Who started this anywa ... oh

... You could no doubt use the proceeds to buy them each a horse with enough left over for the shotgun. Am I right?

You're bang on the money!

The shotgun statement is almost as annoying as the "So you gonna try for a son?" or the people who responded to our 3rd child being a daughter with "Aw ... that's too bad!"

Honestly, by the time we had our 4th - which we knew would be our last - I was praying for another daughter. The last thing I wanted to hear the rest of my life was - "Wow - you tried until you got your son!" #-o

Finally, I see a thread about something I know.

Only to read it, and find out I don't know anything about it (person with no desire to have children). :wink:

EXCUSE ME?

Me?

Violent? If someone really ticks me off, I've had a general bad day, and the universe seems to have been going completely against em for the past few weeks.

Dolt? When I do something stupid, yes.

Sadistic? HELL NO!!!

And I'm talking about all male members of this species who do not fall into the above categories under most situations, as opposed to myself specifically.

Oh BTW, have you ever heard of the pot calling the kettle black?

I think there was meant to be a '...' after twisted, maybe i just carryed it on from personal experiance #-o

Yes i think it went along the lines of:
"hey kettle your black" said the pot.

So you to a swing at some degenerate doesn't make you violent or sadistic. If you was the afformentioned degenerate then you would probably be both. Plus the breaking of the bone brings up the point that you probably haven't been in that many fights.

note to all parents: keep your daughters away from GJ :wink: :P

Bloody wonderful. I hope my GF's parents aren't reading that, EMP... Now pardon me while I start up my data recovery software. I just might be able to dig up an old virus or two for you... :P

Girlfriend? I knew you had a new friend, but I didn't realize she was your girlfriend.

No, different person.

I know this has got nothing to do with this thread :wink: but I just defraged my comp took ages though

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Actually, I think it has everything to do with the thread...the discussion just got side tracked, that's all.

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dgruss23,

Your post resulted in one of the most fragmented threads yet.

Good thing your board name isn't "degauss"!

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The first time I defragged my hard drive, it took about six hours; ever since then, I've done it [Defragged my hard drive, that is.] once a week! :roll: