Goodbye constant frustration, hello Spring

A Winter of Discontent

Over the past few weeks and months I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with my computer’s decreasing abilities to perform even the most simple tasks. I’ve tried scrubbing them out, I’ve tried soaking them out, but I still ended up with those pesky ring-around-the-can’t-do-anything-with-this-PC blues.

I had run countless diagnostics that told me my computer was running normally and fully optimized, yet it would simply lock up every 20-30 minutes. Launching a browser would take about that long, too. So frustrating! Finally I managed to correct the registry, remove 1452 spybots (geez!), and install a memory manager, all of which allowed me to access and empty the Firefox download manager which for some reason would not previously allow me access.

After a couple of days of testing, I see that things are working as they should, which is to say, “as fast as I can type and click a mouse”. My computer is once again faster than I am! I can almost say (knock on wood) that I am once again in love with my PC!

Maybe now I can enjoy this nice pre-Spring weather we’re having here in the South Bay – maybe even work in my garden, or (could it be?) actually go hiking!

Goodbye constant frustration, hello Spring.

~winehiker

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4 Responses to “Goodbye constant frustration, hello Spring”

Sonadora
March 9th, 2008 19:35
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My mac has never disappointed me. ::Gazes lovingly at my powerbook:: For one thing, it hasn’t lit on fire like my pos Dell, and for another, it doesn’t get the dreaded blue screen of death.

Hopefully your PC is back on track though!
Debo Hobo
March 10th, 2008 11:43
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My home pc for some reason won’t let me on line. URGH!!! Spybots those sound scary I’m sure I have a ton of those lurking about s well.

Go hiking, no plant the garden first then go hiking or…just sit on the porch and enjoy a deep glass of wine
Mark V Marino
March 12th, 2008 21:17
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Hey Russ,
Well every three or four years and sometimes less you must buy a new computer! Yes You can get them up and running but when you check out the performance of a new one you say whoa this is way better. I currently have my last three and they all work but geez there are a lot of guys sitting around trying to figure out how to make you buy a new one!
You get my point brother?
Mark
Winehiker Witiculture » Back to work, fool speed ahead
February 28th, 2009 14:08
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