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[aimee]

We had a report that someone had trouble accessing the forum intermittently over the past few days.  The information I have was that the main site was able to be accessed, but the forum was down intermittently.  I show activity was steady and spread pretty even throughout the day during the past few days.  Did any of you have problems?

Thanks!

[bobander]

Working fine here.

[ron.dittmer]

Yesterday in the morning I accessed the forum just fine.  Mid-day I could not.  I got an error message stating something about not allowing access through Asia.  That has happened before with the forum.  The main PC website remained fine.

To clear up my computer from this, I run CCleaner.  CCleaner is free software used to clean up your own computer of temp files, history, cookies and a whole lot more.  It also has a registry cleaner.  That too works great.

Get CCleaner here for free: http://www.piriform.com/promo/ccleaner-080213?_kk=ccleaner&_kt=f3eccf1d-4c79-43e5-a158-7865dc52e6c2&gclid=CLyng6TDtLkCFYSf4AodJz0AsQ

Click on the Free Download version.  At Motorola where I work, we use the free version all the time and Irene and I use it at home all the time too.  It is well trusted.  If you  have never cleaned up your computer of old garbage "background" data before, you will be pleasently surprised how much disk space is recovered, and your computer should run faster too.

There are numerous selections on CCleaner.  On a laptop which can be easily stolen, I select all in the Internet Explorer & Windows Explorer sections.  In the 3rd System section I select all but the last two.  In the Advanced section I only select the 2nd one called Old Prefetch data.

In the registry cleaner, when it asks to backup the data, I select "no".

[ron.dittmer]

I never found value with backing up registry data.

[ron.dittmer]

Good question.  I really don't know for sure as I have never used anything but a Windows personal computer.

I always thought that MACs were configured differently where this won't come into play.  Hopefully someone with a MAC will clarify one way or the other.

[ron.dittmer]

Hi Barry,

I didn't mean to play-down the importance of the registry.

CCleaner makes it's own registry backup in My Documents.  I never had any use for it, no reason to keep it.  If in doubt, hit yes to that question.  You will find a copy saved there.

[ron.dittmer]

Tom, You might want to run CCleaner's "Cleaner" followed by "Registry" before installing the Garmin software.  Back up the old registry data when it asks, no harm in that.  Then install Garmin.  Maybe it will resolve the issue.

Just so you know, the registry cleaner removes old registries that are no longer needed.  I once had some serious system issues that went away after I ran that registry cleaning feature.  Old unused obsolete registeries were in conflict with good ones.  Me and all other people I know who use the registry cleaner, never created a problem from using the registry cleaner, only solving problems.

Oh, and BTW:  Run each program a few times because once in a while, new things come up to clean up after others are cleaned up.

Good Luck

[TomHanlon]

Sorry guys, but thanks for the suggestions. I have downloaded and run CCleaner as well as deleted Norton along with every other program/files that have been installed in the last six months. I will keep trying things but I am beginning to think this 7 year old computer is about done. I can't figure out if I want to learn (Apples Mac), Windows 8, or the new Windows 8.1.
 Again thanks.