What did I do in my shop today? And yesterday and the day before? I wasn't in my shop but in my office fighting with my computer. A power glitch last week shut off my computer and a second one shut it down again during the reboot.
After that, email started crashing and the computer slowed down to a crawl. a slooow crawl. I started a full virus scan using Norton Security at about 11:00PM Sunday night and at 10:00 the next morning, it was still scanning; over ten million files. I finally aborted the scan. I don't have ten million files.
Yesterday afternoon, was was struggling to keep email working. I would reboot my computer and the email would work for a few minutes and then not receive any incoming mail. I called my isp and had them reset my passwords, thinking my system had been hacked but that didn't help. All this time my hard drive was busy, every half second or so doing a read/write.
I finally opened the resource monitor and lo and behold, Norton was writing about 1 mB of something every half second. This morning, I called Norton customer service and after a scan for malware, an uninstall of Norton Security and a reinstall (three hours elapsed time), everything is happy again. The e-mails are flowing in. The hard drive is blissfully quiet and, instead of taking a minute or two to access the Hobby Machinist site, it takes a couple of seconds.
Not exactly a machining project (although it is the computer that I have my CAd and CAM on so it could qualify as a rebuild
) but it is what I did.
Bob