Mine is 64 bit

Right I'm getting a wee bit confused...ram good, vista bad? 10 better, but I don't like 10 it is totally different to all the previous windows, I just can find my way around it..... it feels like someone is saying you've spoken English for 50 years, but now the whole country is going to speak Russian, overnight Not to mention the pop3 email, or should I say lack of It's all too much for an old fart to cope with... you have to remember that when I was at school calculators didn't require electricity, just a good dusting and possibly some Cuprinol to dissuade the worms

What about going back to XP or 98..... or 95

Even 7 is less scary Although I had to install Thunderbird to get access to my emails bloody progress, why can't they make things better without the need to change absolutely everything, including the way it's structured  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

miggit wrote:

More ram I just keep on throwing more coal at it



I also think that there might be something going on with the internet connection as the laptop was taking it's time to load web pages today.. that's on win7 and it's 2.2gig Quad, so that shouldn't really suffer.. and I hardly use it, and it's got sod all programs loaded on it other than Sage and NavCoder But everytime I do a speed check it says that I';m getting 17.8 Mb so I'm a bit stumped

depends on the wi-fi card ...if its a 'n' type then you'll get full wack.. ... - .- -.




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^^ wot he says 300mbs of what ever the term is, 3 times faster than LAN, could have fooled me just as bloody slow as the wire

both router and slaptop are b,g,n Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

miggit wrote:

Right I'm getting a wee bit confused...ram good, vista bad? 10 better, but I don't like 10 it is totally different to all the previous windows, I just can find my way around it..... it feels like someone is saying you've spoken English for 50 years, but now the whole country is going to speak Russian, overnight Not to mention the pop3 email, or should I say lack of It's all too much for an old fart to cope with... you have to remember that when I was at school calculators didn't require electricity, just a good dusting and possibly some Cuprinol to dissuade the worms

What about going back to XP or 98..... or 95

Even 7 is less scary Although I had to install Thunderbird to get access to my emails bloody progress, why can't they make things better without the need to change absolutely everything, including the way it's structured

Win 10, afaik wont run pop3 emails, and if it does they have hidden it so well that I couldn't find it... having spent what seamed a life time banging my head against a wall I gave up trying to setup a win 10 slaptop from a friend... saying that they'd have to find a 5 year old to do it

The main reason for staying with the existing PC is there is a lot of company info in the form of emails that I really need to keep, and I really don't know how to save them without producing a lorry full of paper Sometimes I wish I was younger so that I understood it all a bit better, or a older so that I didn't know at all... knowing a little can be frustrating  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

mzplcg wrote:

Yeah, buy a Mac and all your troubles will cost 5 times as much

as per title, this is indeed a 'slow computer fix'...  ... - .- -.




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Well I'm in the process (as we speak) of reloading Trend... but it would appear to have stalled at 98% Been sitting at that for 30 minutes now.. getting very board Now got to the stage where i don't care if I get a bug would serve it right..

Contemplating a restart to see if that will give it the kick up the ass that it needs

Wot's more it really didn't want to go, took 3 goes with revo uninstaller to get shot and then it left a load read me files So I ended up deleting any thing that was published by trend So things could go very quirt if I do a restart

And wot is this Mac thing that someone's trying to flog me... I thought it was a burger.. put me down for 2 I'm feeling hungry  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

ajac8 wrote:

mzplcg wrote:

Yeah, buy a Mac and all your troubles will cost 5 times as much

You are missing the point completely - there are no problems! at least not in mine and my Sons experiences. Other folk we know just keep piling cash into Windoze machines.

Ah well each to their own.

Is that a Mac or a Mac meal?

I can't afford to buy a new computer every time mine has a hiccup... plus I get a bit peed off at having to relearn an operating system every time Microsoft feels it isn't making enough money and I've just got the hang of the old system... I don't need to keep up with the Jones's cos I don't know them

There is going to be no easy way around this, I'll just have to rebuild the bloody thing That should sort it.. a year ago it was working fine... so there is no reason why it shouldn't be fine again. I'll just have to send the business email all the ones I need to keep and send them back after Why can't you just copy them to word.. it would be easier to move a big file than hundreds of emails, or better put them on a stick  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Andy B wrote:

Exactly AJAC8, missing the point and an uneducated view.

Uneducated? And you know this how exactly? Try 20 years experience with them from the days of the G3 in a commercial publishing environment. There are many excellent reasons why they are still considered as toys by the business community.

I stand by the original point, Macs are expensive and Miggit's PC could easily be replaced for 300 quid and give another 5 years of service quite happily. So your Mac would need to last at least 30 years just to break even, and that's before considering all the software he would have to replace.

Miggit. I'll send a PM. Have something here which might suit you.

andy b reckons MS laptops only last 1.5 years, my acer 5920 has been going for about 10 years, and the delete button still works .. ... - .- -.




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Exactly Stan, and we all know about your DELETE button mate.

My Sony Vaio from 2006 is still perfectly fine. My HP Elitebook from 2013 is still a powerhouse and even with the upgrades (500gb SSD and 32GB of RAM) has still cost me less than 1200 quid.

Now, remember a post from me? Would have been late 2010. Summat about crApples. Might have been the post which persuaded Martin to implement a swear filter.

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic3641.h...ial+skills