Grinding to a halt
After almost five years, my computer’s Windows ME system underwent its first reinstall. I suppose it went okay, but now I’m working out, one programme at a time, which ones also need reinstalling.
A minor panic occurred when the graphics card refused to display anything better than 640×480, then I decided to remove the Dell system software CD from its sleeve for the first time ever and suddenly things look normal again. Praise be.
So now I have to reinstall Office, random security things, and I’m sure I’ll find out — as time goes by — what else needs done. Oh yeah. PhotoShop. Sigh.
I’m not sure, however, if the reinstall has extended the life of my laptop — it’s crashed (i.e. frozen and requiring a hard reset) twice since the big move. I guess it’s an improvement over crashing ten times in one day. It’s all relative, I suppose.
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Sorry to hear of your pain. It could be you need a new hard drive. I started having Registry/crash problems on my Win98 system and a new HD cured it.
Well, I’d like to avoid that, I don’t think there’s a hard drive issue, it’s just probably so old it should be in a nursing home.
Anyway, I run WinME and I’d like to get away from that soon.
paranoia dictates it’s all a conspiracy to sell more computers - my old computer crashed almost exactly 21/2 years after purchase and whilst downloading security ware - you got twice the mileage, good luck!
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