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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 13:45:30 GMT
Oi.yord .How many times on average do you switch your comp on and off in a day ?
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 13:53:24 GMT
mmmmmmmmm depends on how much noise its making lol . This un , the fecked one , or at least the latest fecked one , was very noisey after running for an hour or so. ( the other one is as quiet as a mouse in slippers ) but after the comp man did the windows recovery consul thing its now very quiet. It probably gets switched off mmmmmm 4 times a day from 8ish till midnightish
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Post by kubik8 on May 4, 2009 13:59:05 GMT
You have to remember that dodgy power supplies can cause different symptoms. From issues that appear to be software problems, to completely cutting out. Depends what's wrong with it.
Laptops...
That's a tricky call at the moment. I'm no fan of Vista either, but I'm not sure retrofitting XP is a particularly good idea. The trouble is, Windows 7 will probably ship in Oct/Nov, so with XP you're gonna be two generations behind, and doubtless with MS looking to ditch any support at all for it.
Which reminds me. Must flog the XP laptop I'm using right now to some poor sap...
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:10:41 GMT
do these bastards think I have nowt better to do than feck up another operating system
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:15:01 GMT
I got me daughter a second hand lap top .A 6 months old Acer expire 7720ZG. It's got vista and I had a nosy ( as it's also meant to be half mine in case I need it some time ) .I thought it looked fine .Nothing so radically different to XP .Well,nothing that you wouldnt get used to in a day or two
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:17:39 GMT
do these bastards think I have nowt better to do than feck up another operating system I remember someone moaning about how he didnt want to get XP cos win98 was FINE .Then he got XP and in 2 days was singing its praises and wondering why he hadnt changed before. Meself ...i would wait till the new OS comes out cos even though Angela's comp hasnt played up at all ,I've read about enough who have problems |
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:20:35 GMT
me and comps dont get on anyhow.A new system would take the piss for months not days. They do it delibrately.
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:21:56 GMT
Windows 98 was great , a new challenge every day
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:22:31 GMT
Yea ..those techy blokes get together and say " what can we do to annoy yord today " .
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:24:03 GMT
there wasnt many that could run 98 for several years without updates or anti virus and wires that would attempt electricution if you got within a foot of them
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:24:23 GMT
me and comps dont get on anyhow.A new system would take the piss for months not days. They do it delibrately. Oh bollox ..you were happy with your new comp almost as soon as you had it and used to XP within a day or two .And the only reason you dont get on with comps is cos you let them frighten you lol |
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:26:34 GMT
mmmm I might get it out and see if it'll still run
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:28:09 GMT
look 98 has been in a cupboard in my bedroom for several years and you can still see it glowing in the dark through the crack in the door. Too fecking right , theyre scary.
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Post by kubik8 on May 4, 2009 14:29:33 GMT
I'm also using an Acer Aspire, a 5050. Bought second-hand and running XP. It's nice and fast.
Previous one was an Asus running Vista. Grief it was sooo slow. Didn't even have much installed on it but it would stop for minutes at a time. It was OK once I beefed up the memory to 3gb, but I sold it anyway.
I don't mind using Vista at all. It has its problems but nothing I couldn't work around. It just needs a lot more grunt to do very little more than XP.
Windows 7 is looking rather good though. It also has XP virtualization so should be better than Vista for those of us with older software we still need to run.
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:29:50 GMT
everytime I go to unplug it a "Dont you fecking Dare " notice pops up
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:30:23 GMT
mmmm I might get it out and see if it'll still run lmao .I was just going to suggest you did that ...before binning it entirely < STILL wonders what the feck he's keeping it for as it' BROKE > |
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:30:50 GMT
all my software is old
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:32:00 GMT
the magic bits sing me to sleep at night
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Post by yord on May 4, 2009 14:33:55 GMT
you could almost swear it was judy garland with somewhere over the rainbow
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Post by feral on May 4, 2009 14:34:05 GMT
yea this is one of the things that has put me off vista -the fact that so many say it wont run old software .And some of my software is very old lol and I dont want to change it cos its good .Doesnt matter for Angela's one cos I'll only use it in emergencies and wont need me software .Fecking neat though .I was surprised at how nifty and fast a laptop can be ...and a decent sized monitor and keyboard as well
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