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