tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post3798546489326077567..comments2024-02-20T15:12:28.660-08:00Comments on A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: My stuffing around with the computer week 4 (11)Graham Clementshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-49284531155282638982011-03-18T22:47:30.663-07:002011-03-18T22:47:30.663-07:00Graham, I know a person whose new computer spent m...Graham, I know a person whose new computer spent more of its first year in the repair shop than at their home.<br /><br />Satima, I was also worried that as soon as I took the computer to a techie or had one visit, the computer would work, as it does from time to time for extended periods. <br /><br />I've run the computer for about a week with the cover off and it's gone perfectly, but whether it was overheating, who knows. <br /><br />The canned air arrived today and I cleaned away some dust from the insides of the computer. I have just tempted fate by putting the cover back on the computer.<br /><br />I am just about to order some extra ram too. It can't hurt and hopefully it will speed the computer up. <br /><br />I will persist with the computer, for the moment anyway.Graham Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-17721641062983374412011-03-16T06:00:06.786-07:002011-03-16T06:00:06.786-07:00(groan)I know that story well. In my case, the com...(groan)I know that story well. In my case, the computer carries on like a two-bob watch when it's at home, but when I take it to show to one of my techie sons it behaves perfectly. Then when I get it home it laughs at me:-(Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-3626063787156755042011-03-13T23:39:02.446-07:002011-03-13T23:39:02.446-07:00Graham, I know what you mean. I had six weeks of s...Graham, I know what you mean. I had six weeks of stuffing around - with my brand new computer (hard disc failure) and with my ISP (Telstra, a complete bunch of morons who couldn't fix their gaze, never mind a network.)<br /><br />And then, when it was all working again, I downloaded the Windows 7 SP 1 update, and I was back at The Blue Screen of Death. This took me another three days to fix. <br /><br />The joke is that computers are called "productivity tools".graywavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609426782409481706noreply@blogger.com