Having problem with freezing laptop

[Friar]

Hi guys, wonder if someone may be able to provide some pointers...

I am working on a Toshiba Satellite pro L20 laptop (My Chairmans machine, he has brought it back from his villa in spain

[BBloke]

Hi Colin,

I had a similar sounding issue yesterday with another laptop as coincidence goes.

[Friar]

thanks for the reply chris.

i dont have nero, will copy and paste and then let windows write to the cd not work?

i am currently re-installing norton, I know

[BBloke]

Nero do a trial version which is fully functionally and can be taken from its trial with the use of a licence number when purchased

The svchost thing was up and down like Brenda's draws but it would stick at 100% for far too long.

[Friar]

things seem to be running ok at the moment. nis install progressing nicely. just getting updates now.

thanks for the other night by the way. i have "had strong words with kids" about using short cust to log off. I must admint i thought that i had disabled it, but perhaps i only did it on my account not thinking that it had to be done on the others as well.

S!

[BBloke]

No problem Colin.

You can stop fast user switching via User Accounts in Control Panel.. and then you can turn off the Fast User Switching Service IIRC .

[B16Enk]

Drag and drop will not create a bootable cd, you have to go the image burning route.

PowerISO is also a very good burning utility, I use it in preference to Nero.

[Friar]

Hello Roger.

I have d/l and installed as per your reccommendatuion.

How do i assign the drive letter, its looking for "f" but my rw drive is "e" ?

[B16Enk]

You don't need to assign drive letters Colin.

PowerISO can mount ISO images as virtual CD drives, you are unlikely to need this.

It can also open ISO files as though they were zipped files, and you can extract from them.

For you te main use will be to open PowerISO, click 'Burn' , tick 'Image file' (should be only option any way) then click the button to the right with the '...' to browse to where the ISO file is.

Then click 'Burn'.

Voila!

You now have a bootable memtest CD.

If you right click the PowerISO system tray icon you can select 'disable' to disable the virtual CD drive option.

[Friar]

Ok problem sorted.

I was using the software from my account which does not have admin rights.

when i logged in to the admin account, it was as you described with the correct drive letter in view.

burn went ok

now to test it on the laptop..........