As mentioned in a previous post, my laptop has problems coming back from standby.
I thought it was Firefox creating all the trouble but that proved false when I tried to wake up my laptop when no programs were open, yet it still ran very slowly. Now I figure it has to be the wireless netword [...]
more computer woes
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
less zippy laptop
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Quicky post … right.
Finished upgrading Win XP and drivers and such on my laptop, then re-installed all the programs and copied back most of my files. Interesting note: most of the programs I installed, I downloaded free online. Only three were on CD (Paint Shop Pro 6, yes, Photoshop 7, and my Canon camera things).
For [...]
zippy laptop
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Yay! I have a fresh install of XP on my laptop! XD It starts up so fast! But I still have to install all my programs again…
Firefox (2 still, don’t quite like 3) starts up really fast too! :D Still have to import my bookmarks, and work on my preferences (allow or deny cookies for [...]
use the right words…
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Wow. Windows Explorer just disappeared again. All I had open was Windows Media Player, Volume Control, IE 7, and Firefox. I also had just closed FileZilla and Paint Shop Pro (6, if anyone’s counting; yes I do like my ancient programs).
It probably didn’t help that I had a … My Documents folder Window open (… [...]
held on high
Monday, May 19th, 2008
I managed to crash Windows Explorer tonight. :O
A little bit of info: I own a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop, bought in the summer of 2002. Currently runs on 384 MB RAM (somehow the video card takes up 128 MB of the installed 512? I don’t understand it, but meh), was at 256 ’til about a [...]