I was online looking for to see if, of all things things... if anyone had stolen identity in cyberspace. It turns out someone has on the Moline High School Class of 1993 website http://www.moline93.com/class_index.cfm . How absolutely ridiculous is that. Its not like I hide out or anything. I am quite easy to find. Maybe someone thought nobody would notice that they marked me down as living in Arizona. What is the benefit of doing this though?

The crime of using someone else's name to sign up for online accounts is criminal fraud and may be covered under state laws and is always covered under federal law.

Those who know me well, know that to me high school was nothing... not even a stepping stone to the person I am. For some people high school reunions are events to look forward to. That is fine for them and I am one to enjoy diversity of opinion among subjects including this. For me, nothing was forged in high school that was extraordinary compared with other events and groups I have partaken in before high school or after high school, save my marriage. Therefor I would no more go to a high school reunion than a reunion for dentist appointment I once had. I would say high school was an below average experience. Don't get me wrong, I had made some great friends and absorbed all the wisdom I could from what I felt was the dedicated teaching staff. But the dedicated teaching staff I had I can count using less than two hands: B. Adams, F. Booth, W. Clark, R. Crouch, T. Rosenthal. The rest of the teaching staff I either didn't have, or thought was average or worse than average.

Windows 7 is the real successor to Windows XP. One XP legacy kept in the newest Windows that will bother power users is that working with large files in large amounts quickly renders all file operations done by mouse only or using keyboard shortcuts to fail to cause explorer to refresh. This also occurs when working with large amounts of data in many small files. The problem does not correct itself and occurs 100% of the time when using Windows Explorer from then on.

Lets say for instance I open a folder containing my new family videos, then use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+A to select all the files in the explorer window. Then maybe I would I drag them to another folder to move them or use the keyboard and press DEL to delete them. After moving them or deleting them they might still show in my Explorer window as if they remain in the folder. Double clicking to open the ghostly images or trying to delete them will only give a file not found error. Only by pressing F5 (refresh) am I then shown the true contents of the folder. This problem pops up frequently after moving my entire MP3 collection with thousands of files and tens of gigabytes of data.

The cause of this issue is not known to me and there are many forums and discussions as to why this occurs. Some suspect explorer plug ins from anti-virus programs, Google, Yahoo or even Microsoft Office. The problem will occur on computers without these programs too, so that is not the cause. Some suspect that Internet Explorer causes the problem but that would be difficult to prove.

If the problem can't be identified, can if be solved? Yes and No. Many have had luck by going to Folder Options under Organize or Tools in Windows Explorer then going to the General tab, and at the bottom, in the 'Navigation Pane' box, putting a check next to 'Show all folders' and 'Automatically expand to current folder' and clicking Apply. Many have had success by removing the checks next to these boxes and clicking Apply. Yet others have had success by clicking on Restore Defaults in the General tab of the Folder Options of Windows Explorer.

I too have had success with these solutions... temporarily. The problem occurs again for me the next time I move a large amount of large files or a large amount of data in many small files.