Re: Let's hear it for manliness?
- From: Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:37:20 GMT
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:16:49 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:52:08 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My computer just shut itself off last night and wouldn't
complete the boot process.
Mine did the same thing a week or so ago. First time I had that
problem with Windows XP. When I decided to move to San Diego,
my daughter offered to trade me her laptop for some of my
furniture. I had been having some problems before the computer
just would not boot up...perhaps for about a week.
I was resigning myself to reinstalling XP when I realized I could
try System Restore. First date I chose would not restore but
I then found another and the restore process went through
and the computer has been fine ever since. I admit to being
quite amazed that System Restore worked.
I've used System Restore many times. I'd say it's the best
thing about XP, except that the main reason one ever has to
restore one's system anyway is because of the &*$(&*(&$ way
windows stores all the information in two files, instead of
keeping all the information for an application in the directory
for the application as god intended. Then, if an application
went sour, you could just remove the application and
reinstall it. Now, if an application goes sour, you might screw
up your whole computer.
I do not have a CD-R drive on this computer and am thinking
of buying one because I have no way to back up current data
in case I need to re-install the OS. I'd lose my documents and
Email and so forth. When I switched to this computer I did
have all that stuffed copied and burned to a CD and so was
able to quickly put it on this computer. But I have added
stuff I want to save since then.
Another problem with this laptop is that the sound card seems
faulty. If I play a CD, or indeed try to watch a video from a
website the sound is so faint I can hardly hear it. My hearing
is bad but with my former computer I could jack up the volume
and hear just fine. Now with the volume at full blast the sound
is still too faint.
Any suggestions? Is it the sound card or the computer? Or what?
Maybe somebody else knows better than I do. I did
once apparently blow out the onboard soundcard that
came with my computer, and after trying forty other things,
bought a $25 sound card and installed it, telling my
computer to look at that soundcard instead of the onboard
one. That fixed my problem, but I'm not suggesting it might
be yours. There are more things in heaven and earth, Rita,
than are dreamt of in our level of computer expertise. If
you know somebody who has an extra soundcard that
works, it might be worth trying. Before you install the new
card though, set a "restore point" in XP so that xp will
create a backup of your system that you can later get
back by way of "System Restore" if your system really gets
messed up by trying to install the other card, or if you just
have to give the other card back and want to get your
previous setup back without risking screwing things
up. I have a friend who's a major geek, and he removed
System Restore from his system. That's fine for him, I
guess, but I wouldn't consider doing anything like that.
Windows XP slows down more and more as time goes on,
because there's no practical way of keeping spiderwebs
and mouse droppings out of the registry, and there's no
way to clean the registry completely and safely.
I'm thinking of spiderwebs because I noticed yesterday
that there was a spiderweb in the corner of the most
remote back-porch windows, over the catbox. It was
covered with dust, so I would have thought it was
abandoned, except that I remember cleaning it out a
couple of weeks ago. That happens to be one of the
back porch windows that opens, so I started to open it,
and a big spider came scurrying it out of the crack
between the window and the wall and settled in the
web, where it clung motionless but at-the-ready, closely
observing me with all eight eyes.. I like spiders, but this
one would have freaked me out if it had gotten onto me.
It wasn't really huge like the brilliant yellow and black
spider that lived under the back steps when I was a kid,
whose body was between the width of a quarter and
a half-dollar. I observed that one with a mix of horror
and fascination as a kid, and occasionally threw files
into the web to watch it rush out and bundle up its new
prize. We developed as much rapport as is possible
between a spider and a human, which is admittedly very
little. The new spider is nowhere near that big, and is
all black, but it looks like it must have a collection of
Charles Atlas body-building books hidden in the window
crack somewhere, which it peruses and practices every
night with spider-like commitment and diligence.
.
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