“When was the last time you used the defragment tool on your computer?” Russ asked over the phone after I told him I was having problems with my programs. “What is a defragment tool, and where do I find it?”
“On the desktop, go to My Computer icon.”
“I can’t find the desktop icon.”
“Mom! You’re looking at the desktop right now!” “OH.”
“Click twice on My Computer, highlight local disk C, go to file, down on the bottom is properties click on that. You will see a gray box that will say, Local disk C Properties, then click on tools, and down on the bottom, you will see Defragment Now.”
“Okay, I’ll defrag my compute later,” I said, writing everything down.
The next morning I followed his direction and clicked on analyze. There were white, blue, and red lines all over the place, and on the bottom, it read contagious. I had a schrek attack and called my son at work. “It’s contaminated. I must have gotten a virus.”
“What’s contaminated?”
“My computer!”
“I’ll stop by on my lunch hour Mom, just don’t do anything, okay?”
“Okay,”
At noon fighting heavy traffic and an empty stomach, he rushed into the house and went directly into the den. I busied myself in the kitchen.
A minute later, I heard him yell, “MOM!”
I bolted into the den and saw his face all contorted with wild-looking eyes. He must have really found a mess, I thought.
He jabbed his finger at the bottom of the screen and said, “READ IT, MOM, READ IT!”
I stared and said. “Yes, I told you it was contagious!”
“READ IT MOM— READ IT! Get out the dictionary!” he yelled, with spittle spraying the screen.
I looked at the computer screen again and read the word out loud. Con-tig-u-ous, which sounded even worse and hoped it didn’t mean beyond fixing.
I grabbed the dictionary, and the contiguous definition read—1Touching. 2 Next or adjacent to; nearby.
“Heh?”
“Nothing wrong with your computer…just your eyes, mom.” He laughed hysterically. “What’s for lunch?”
“As soon as I dig up some earthworms, I’ll make you a thick juicy meat sandwich garnished with nettles.”
© 2007 Helene Thomas all rights reserved.
2 responses to “Defragmenter Tool”
I wonder why there was any reason to embellish the truth, here is how it really happened:
I made the long 160 mile drive to my moms a couple of years ago because she was frantic, her computer was all infected with thousands of viruses. I get there and she tells me to wait, she is running scan disk to show me the problem/infection message she is getting. When Scan disk finished, it gave it’s short report including a line that said there was 127,000 or similar contiguous (adjacent) files! My dear mom had thought it had said contagious (infectious)! Long trip for nothing #$%^^$#@*((&^%&*$! Now I was foolish enough to set her up with a website, I can only imagine the long repair trips and phone conversations I am destined to be part of! LOL
Having experienced the nightmare of a severely fragmented drive which included freezes and lags, i woudnlt hesitate to call it contagious! It spreads across the drive like a disease if its not controlled at its initial stages!