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I ran into this problem when a batch file ran amok on me and created a chain of 50 or more nested folders. I resolved the problem by going halfway down the long branch and moving that folder to the root. That was enough to get breathing room to do some deletions. If not enough, cut each of the longest branches in half again, each time moving the far half of the chain to the root. Now the pathnames should be 1/4 as long as before, and should be causing no problems. You can then clean up the mess using the usual deletions.

I am still using Eudora 6.2.5.6 :^_^: My mailboxes and other data are all in the place the original program selected:

C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingQualcommEudora[mailboxes, etc.]

Can you carry a portable computer to a location that is served by comcast and open/reopen a comcast account there. Then you may be able to download your data in some useful format to be used in your non-comcast email account. Even if you have to buy one month’s worth of service, it would be worth it to avoid retyping…

….. For longer periods of away, I’ll shut it down completely and then turn off the surge protector.

Turning off the surge protector is not as safe as unplugging it from the wall. Lightning sometimes doesn’t respect the switch in a surge protector.

I use RetiredGeek’s method of 2 portable drives, but instead of work and home swaps, I arrange with a friend, whom I see every week at bowling league, to swap disks. We each paid for one drive, and partitioned them identically to each use half the space. 450 GB each is sufficient for our needs, for now. I do my backup to the portable drive every week just before bowling day comes around. The tiny 1-TB USB drive (WD Passport) is about the size of 2 decks of cards and gets its power from the USB port.

PicPick (http://www.picpick.org) is free, can be set to reside in memory to be available on the press of a key (you select the hot key, I use PrtScn), and offers some editing and drawing tools. I also use Irfanview and if I had learned of its screenshot capability before getting used to PicPick, I might use it exclusively.

I have a similar setup, but I plug the keyboard into a 4-port USB hub. The hub is then plugged into a port on the back panel of the desktop. This arrangement also seems to work.

There may be value in checking the power supply too. It could cause these symptoms if failing when it warms up.
Also, connections and circuit leads on the motherboard or video board can intermittently open when heat is applied and re-close upon cooling, causing similar black screen deaths.
I do agree that this sounds like a heat-related problem of some kind.

/BruceR/ I checked, and AnswerWorks was reinstalled at the same time Quicken was. How would I go about testing it, I wonder. I did re-run the .msi file to “repair” the installation, but that did not fix this problem.

/Coochin/ L: is my 1-TB USB HD.
I ran chkdsk L: /f /v and it showed no problems in any area. Is there a better test of disk health that I should run?

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove MS Office 2003 from my Win7/SP1 system, and the Windows Updates for Office seemed to stop. I still get all the updates for Windows.
I have used Revo for years without problems even though I always use the most thorough cleaning setting (Advanced). I always do a complete image backup first before a major removal like that.

IIRC, the spacing changes acted as rje49 describes, with no apparent effect with small increments, until some (unknown) threshold value was reached. Experimenting with many values from 1/10 to 9/10s of the icon height and width in pixels should find a pair of values that gives the result you seek. Adjust the vertical until you like it, then the horizontal, for example, because they are independent.

Thanks to all. Further experimentation/exploration shows all drives have the Policies set to high performance. (They are all NTFS.)

When I copy a 6GB file from the 1TB USB drive to the internal HD of the computer, it still slows down to 1MB/sec or less after the first 15 seconds or so, and the projected time to complete the transfer is about 1 day. I have not yet tried to move such a file from the internal HD to the other USB drive.

The usual way I manually copy a file is to right-click it in one directory, select Copy, and then right-click in the target directory and select Paste (or Move). When I write a batch file, I usually use Robocopy and use the Max size and MaxAge switches.
I just tried Teracopy, but it too chokes at around 150MB copied (out of 6GB), and appears to stop working without any indication of what the problem is.

When this problem first started, I reformated the 1TB USB drive (it took 4 or 5 days, as I recall, because QuickFormat would not run). So it is a fairly clean drive. I am beginning to wonder if it is just defective. Running dskchk on it shows no problems, tho.

It has been suggested elsewhere that an inexpensive (maybe free) source of replacement AC adapters for laptops and tablets may be the lost and found office of your larger local hotels and motels. Just ask if they have a box-full you can poke through….

The symptoms taken all together make me think both the left-click and right-click functions have failed (i.e., they stick closed when you press and release them), and the odds of two mechanical switches failing like that simultaneously are nil, so that leaves us with a failure in the logic board/chip in the mouse. Not feasible to repair at a reasonable cost, so replace the whole mouse.