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More about the computer.
I run AVG and Ad-aware. I have validated my damned windows so many times that I feel like a bureaucrat in Kafka story: I have all the updates.
I downloaded a Microsoft crash diagnostic but it appears to not be what I thought it was: apparently it's for their use, not mine. Grr. Checking out the eventlog does not reveal anything related to my freezes -- it's as if they didn't happen at all. It does, however, reveal that one or another of the other computers in my house is battling for "master browser" status. I'd think this might have something to do with it, but the events don't match up with the freezes. Update: the computer which is battling mine for "master browser" status is K, that is, Keith's, and the date at which it started was the date at which he installed Norton on his computer.
I downloaded stupid IE7 which I think I'm going to uninstall as soon as I can figure out how to do it. It's DUMB DUMB DUMB. I hate tabs: I hate the arrangement of the toolbars and the fact that you can only change them by utilizing third-party tweaks, and even then, the toolbars apparently will reset themselves on a whim: at least according to the Microsoft newsgroup users. I have only been using it for half an hour myself, and all I can tell is that I hate the look-and-feel and superficial functionality of it. I also hate firefox, so spare me the recommendation, okay?
The computer has frozen once since the new stuff. It's not a new computer and we did just install a new graphics card because the old onboard one seemed to be making the display go all jittery and wonky at intervals of increasing frequency. We did check before getting the card: it's supposed to be compatible.
The hard drive is IBM DJNA-370910, apparently a product of the year 2000. It's a 34Gb thing with only 10% free, so I'm looking for things to delete and offload and generally cleaning up the disk. But -- that's three gig, and I remember when having a hard drive with a single gig on it was remarkable. Update: Disk cleanup bumps me to almost 13% free.
I have been messing with this all morning and I have done no writing and it's time to go to work. And I don't want to go.
I run AVG and Ad-aware. I have validated my damned windows so many times that I feel like a bureaucrat in Kafka story: I have all the updates.
I downloaded a Microsoft crash diagnostic but it appears to not be what I thought it was: apparently it's for their use, not mine. Grr. Checking out the eventlog does not reveal anything related to my freezes -- it's as if they didn't happen at all. It does, however, reveal that one or another of the other computers in my house is battling for "master browser" status. I'd think this might have something to do with it, but the events don't match up with the freezes. Update: the computer which is battling mine for "master browser" status is K, that is, Keith's, and the date at which it started was the date at which he installed Norton on his computer.
I downloaded stupid IE7 which I think I'm going to uninstall as soon as I can figure out how to do it. It's DUMB DUMB DUMB. I hate tabs: I hate the arrangement of the toolbars and the fact that you can only change them by utilizing third-party tweaks, and even then, the toolbars apparently will reset themselves on a whim: at least according to the Microsoft newsgroup users. I have only been using it for half an hour myself, and all I can tell is that I hate the look-and-feel and superficial functionality of it. I also hate firefox, so spare me the recommendation, okay?
The computer has frozen once since the new stuff. It's not a new computer and we did just install a new graphics card because the old onboard one seemed to be making the display go all jittery and wonky at intervals of increasing frequency. We did check before getting the card: it's supposed to be compatible.
The hard drive is IBM DJNA-370910, apparently a product of the year 2000. It's a 34Gb thing with only 10% free, so I'm looking for things to delete and offload and generally cleaning up the disk. But -- that's three gig, and I remember when having a hard drive with a single gig on it was remarkable. Update: Disk cleanup bumps me to almost 13% free.
I have been messing with this all morning and I have done no writing and it's time to go to work. And I don't want to go.
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And yes, it's amazing how the things grow. My smallest thumb drive is bigger than the hard drive in the first desktop I bought at work...
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I can't defrag with 11% free (which is what the defrag program says I have, I don't know or care why the different prgorams read the disk differently) -- I have to have 15% free. But who cares? I can have a new hard drive instead.
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