Congratulations are in order . . . . .

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:42 am

As I just bit the bullet & bought a new Puter!!! (It was a really big deal for me, I'm a serious procrastinator) After over a year & a half of proscrastinating, looking & searching, looking, comparing, testing, & whatever!!! It arrives about in a week!! It's a high power HP! Wish us luck, hope we finally bought the right one! Time will tell. :-3

Laptop vs desktop was a major decision! Since puter here in NE was crap & needed to be replaced, the puter in our Southern villa has turned to crap as well. A laptop could have been used in both places. But we used our daughters laptop for a few days, and my wife & I really didn't take to it. So we'll need to replace that Southern POS puter as well come the winter time!

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:45 am

Congrads to you Cars! I'm looking into getting a laptop for myself (no kids would be able to use it):sneaky:. They have a rotten habit of polluting pc's.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:48 am

cars;1219099 wrote: As I just bit the bullet & bought a new Puter!!! (It was a really big deal for me, I'm a serious procrastinator) After over a year & a half of proscrastinating, looking & searching, looking, comparing, testing, & whatever!!! It arrives about in a week!! It's a high power HP! Wish us luck, hope we finally bought the right one! Time will tell. :-3

Laptop vs desktop was a major decision! Since puter here in NE was crap & needed to be replaced, the puter in our Southern villa has turned to crap as well. A laptop could have been used in both places. But we used our daughters laptop for a few days, and my wife & I really didn't take to it. So we'll need to replace that Southern POS puter as well come the winter time!

You realise what you've bought today is out of date by 2 years?...................sorry just how it goes in the computer world

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:08 am

fuzzywuzzy;1219104 wrote: You realise what you've bought today is out of date by 2 years?...................sorry just how it goes in the computer world
Yes no surprise here. Was not looking for the latest & greatest, just needed to replace our damaged puter! For no reason, our current puter keeps on loosing "free space" in the HD. For every "1"% of lost free space, the putter slows down 10 to 15 seconds between comands! It's down to "63" % free space! So. . . . . . . .

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:16 am

cars;1219123 wrote: Yes no surprise here. Was not looking for the latest & greatest, just needed to replace our damaged puter! For no reason, our current puter keeps on loosing "free space" in the HD. For every "1"% of lost free space, the putter slows down 10 to 15 seconds between comands! It's down to "63" % free space! So. . . . . . . .

Ya wha?

'

does it have a screen and a box that has an 'on' button?

I've been watching telly for 40 years I still can't tell you how it works.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:13 am

fuzzywuzzy;1219104 wrote: You realise what you've bought today is out of date by 2 years?...................sorry just how it goes in the computer world

That's really only true if your use of the equipment is in a constant state of change and needing upgrade.

If you are doing the same thing day to day snd using the same programs, there is no reason your machine can't last for years and years. Folks tend to think they need new, when simply cleaning up what they have can enhance performance.

But I have machines here running 98. They just keep humming along... a loud hum from time to time.. but humming..

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:15 am

congrats you two, enjoy!:guitarist:guitarist

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:19 am

[quote=Odie;1219172]

Thanks Odie! Anything will be better then we have now!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:23 am

cars;1219174 wrote: [quote=Odie;1219172]

Thanks Odie! Anything will be better then we have now!

I updated 3 years ago, and its just awesome.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:47 pm

Happy you are getting a new computer, cars. Enjoy!

Your thread also brings this question up : How often do we do maintence on our computers? Scanning for errors, defragging, cleaning up our disks? I try to do mine a couple times a month.

Also I want to ask is it a good idea to "compress drive to save disk space" when you go to clean up the disk?

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:52 pm

Great news Cars!!! Enjoy!!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:02 pm

along-for-the-ride;1219295 wrote: Happy you are getting a new computer, cars. Enjoy!

Your thread also brings this question up : How often do we do maintence on our computers? Scanning for errors, defragging, cleaning up our disks? I try to do mine a couple times a month.

Also I want to ask is it a good idea to "compress drive to save disk space" when you go to clean up the disk?

I don't see the point in compressing drives. In these days of terrabyte drives for a couple of hundred quid disk space is cheap and compressing a drive takes processing power that's better used to improve response times.

By all means clean and defrag the drive - that should be a weekly task on most computers to keep IO times down.

At the same time check to see what processes are running straight after boot-up as many "useful" programs load totally useless quickstarters and update schedulers etc that take valuable resources.

Most importantly of all, update your virus checker and run a scan daily and run Windows Update weekly to keep up with the security patches.

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:52 pm

along-for-the-ride;1219295 wrote: Happy you are getting a new computer, cars. Enjoy!

Your thread also brings this question up : How often do we do maintence on our computers? Scanning for errors, defragging, cleaning up our disks? I try to do mine a couple times a month.

Also I want to ask is it a good idea to "compress drive to save disk space" when you go to clean up the disk?
Our current puter is so bad, it keeps on freezing up, so much so, that I defrag, & clean disks daily, many times twice daily! :wah: Can't wait till the new puter gets here!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:42 pm

You did good by waiting. You wont have to lug this baby home now.

cars · Post by **cars** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:57 pm

Nomad;1219791 wrote: You did good by waiting. You wont have to lug this baby home now.

That's pretty similar to what mine looks like now! :p:D:wah:

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:11 pm

cars;1219345 wrote: Our current puter is so bad, it keeps on freezing up, so much so, that I defrag, & clean disks daily, many times twice daily! :wah: Can't wait till the new puter gets here!

Can't believe the new puter arrived a week ago today, & with our grandson visiting from KC, I never had a chance to take it out of the box yet!!! (Still using this ol POS puter)

He returned home Monday night, but I had so many unfinished chores to do that I still didn't even get round to it yesterday. So later on in the morning today, I plan on unpacking it at least!

(I'm such a procrastinator, always was, guess always will be) :wah: (I hate trying to transfer over all the data to the new puter)

If I'm not on for a few days, I had puter "Install" problems)

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:45 am

cars;1225445 wrote: Can't believe the new puter arrived a week ago today, & with our grandson visiting from KC, I never had a chance to take it out of the box yet!!! (Still using this ol POS puter)

He returned home Monday night, but I had so many unfinished chores to do that I still didn't even get round to it yesterday. So later on in the morning today, I plan on unpacking it at least!

(I'm such a procrastinator, always was, guess always will be) :wah: (I hate trying to transfer over all the data to the new puter)

If I'm not on for a few days, I had puter "Install" problems)

let's get with it!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:54 am

Well over the past two days, had many "incompability" problems between many of my current software systems, trying to integrate them with my new WINDOWS VISTA system! VISTA was not compatable with any of them, what in the hell is it actually compatable with??!

After several hours on the phone yesterday with a tech help puter geek, thankfully, he walked me through setting up & downloading all the drives & software I needed! Whorahhh!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:58 am

cars;1227196 wrote: Well over the past two days, had many "incompability" problems between many of my current software systems, trying to integrate them with my new WINDOWS VISTA system! VISTA was not compatable with any of them, what in the hell is it actually compatable with??!

After several hours on the phone yesterday with a tech help puter geek, thankfully, he walked me through setting up & downloading all the drives & software I needed! Whorahhh!

fabulous, glad to hear you now have everything downloaded!

when I bought my vista two years ago....it wasn't compatible with my printer.:-5:-5

I had to go and buy a new printer.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:58 am

cars;1227196 wrote: Well over the past two days, had many "incompability" problems between many of my current software systems, trying to integrate them with my new WINDOWS VISTA system! VISTA was not compatable with any of them, what in the hell is it actually compatable with??!

After several hours on the phone yesterday with a tech help puter geek, thankfully, he walked me through setting up & downloading all the drives & software I needed! Whorahhh!

Warning: Do not use the ---> * <--- while using Vista.

You will not be amused if you do.

princessladedah · Post by **princessladedah** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:06 am

Yeah for you! I just did that this spring, Nothing smells like electronics in plastic:yh_rotfl

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:25 pm

Well, this new Windows VISTA is a whole new ball game for me, hardly anything operates even closely to my ol Windows XP! :wah:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:50 pm

I went from Windows ME to Vista recently. I like XP better, but everything I looked at was Vista. I'm finally getting used to it. It's not so bad when you get used to it.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:55 pm

Peg;1227403 wrote: I went from Windows ME to Vista recently. I like XP better, but everything I looked at was Vista. I'm finally getting used to it. It's not so bad when you get used to it.

Me too, I ended up with Vista last summer, just took a while to get used to it that's all.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:21 pm

I hate Vista, but have leant to more or less live with it.