{"id":106,"date":"2000-10-23T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-23T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=106"},"modified":"2021-05-16T00:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:53:58","slug":"computer-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2000\/10\/23\/computer-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/gadgetsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; What would a vacation be without some computer trouble? I&#8217;ve been noticing a lot of large files clogging up my hard drives, with generic names like &#8220;00093284.wav&#8221; or &#8220;00094726.avi&#8221;. And more recently I discovered these files were being orphaned by Windows. The OS was claiming it was deleting these files, but it wasn&#8217;t. It would say my drives had plenty of free space, but when programs I&#8217;d run off these drives would crash. What was most troubling was Windows Explorer would say I&#8217;d have hundreds of MB open, but my Norton Speed Disk would show the drive as being practically full, with many files bearing similar names to what I mentioned above.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; So I got around this by simply wiping my C:\\ drive and starting fresh. Drastic, perhaps; but I guess it was around time for a fresh install anyway. Which meant I spent most of Sunday reinstalling all my programs, and making constant visits to the Windows Update site to make sure I had the latest patches and fixes.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; An interesting sidelight is that the more updates I loaded in, the buggier Windows seemed to act.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Hmmm.\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What would a vacation be without some computer trouble? I&#8217;ve been noticing a lot of large files clogging up my hard drives, with generic names like &#8220;00093284.wav&#8221; or &#8220;00094726.avi&#8221;. And more recently I discovered these files were being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2000\/10\/23\/computer-troubles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}