Try running Spinrite on the hard drive. It may be that one of the disk sectors
being read during boot time is "slow."
I did that on an older machine recently, and the improvement in performance was
"amazing."
Fred Holmes
At 12:56 PM 8/20/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>I've got an older Dell that
You should actually listen to what we're talking about. Oh wait I forgot
who I am talking to.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM, TPiwowar wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:50 PM, mike wrote:
>
>> It wasn't just the degree that set
>> Dvorak off, it was also Kundra's behavior during an appearance at
b_s-wilk wrote:
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Unlimited data for $30/mo., tethering to your PC or Mac. Is this a deal?
I suppose you could do this with any unlocked 3G phone. Combine with
DuoSIM, SIM Doubler, SIM Max cloner and/or WiFi,
> Running Disk Cleanup in Vista I was surprised when it cleaned a whopping 4gb
> of "system queued windows error reporting" last month. But now, a month
> later, it's reporting a whopping 7gb of them! I try to keep my C partition
> small, so these are a good 10% of the drive!
>
> I have system dum
On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:50 PM, mike wrote:
It wasn't just the degree that set
Dvorak off, it was also Kundra's behavior during an appearance at I
believe
was in front of some senators. His basic point being the guy was
full of BS
web 2.0 doubletalk that makes no sense when actually analyzed.
On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think Google is doing the a good job of making its Groups, on-
line apps, and other tools accessible and easy to use, but as the
article suggests, control and security are difficult and complicated.
Is that fair? The article says "In other words, t
Use the Dell numbers on the case to find the manual on the dell site re:
the case latch etc.
db
Chris Dunford wrote:
Does it matter if the laptop is running on battery power or the power brick?
Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. It's a desktop, not a laptop. I'm thinking
that the other
Running Disk Cleanup in Vista I was surprised when it cleaned a whopping 4gb
of "system queued windows error reporting" last month. But now, a month
later, it's reporting a whopping 7gb of them! I try to keep my C partition
small, so these are a good 10% of the drive!
I have system dumps turned of
> Does it matter if the laptop is running on battery power or the power brick?
Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. It's a desktop, not a laptop. I'm thinking
that the other two answers might be on the money. I'm going to replace the CMOS
battery and see if that fixes it.
That is, of course, assumi
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM, mike wrote:
> TWIT podcast this week also discussed Dvorak's column and the complaints
> about it all the way to the white house. It wasn't just the degree that
> set
> Dvorak off, it was also Kundra's behavior during an appearance at I believe
> was in front of
Chris Dunford wrote:
I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but now I
need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple of
minutes before it starts the boot process.
It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for about two
Quoting Chris Dunford :
I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so,
but now I need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button
it takes a couple of minutes before it starts the boot process.
It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for
I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but now I
need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple of
minutes before it starts the boot process.
It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for about two
minutes, then it start
I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but now I
need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple of
minutes before it starts the boot process.
It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for about two
minutes, then it start
TWIT podcast this week also discussed Dvorak's column and the complaints
about it all the way to the white house. It wasn't just the degree that set
Dvorak off, it was also Kundra's behavior during an appearance at I believe
was in front of some senators. His basic point being the guy was full of
John Settle wrote:
All,
I'd like to get some advice. I am running a wireless mouse/keyboard
combination. Mouse uses two AA's; Keyboard a single AAA. I'd like to
reduce the batteries I send to the recycle by switching to rechargeables.
Thank you to all who provided their invaluable advice. It
One Man wrote:
I want to add some songs on my iTunes playlist to my friend's iPod, which is
already synced to another iTunes How can I do this, as I keep getting the
message that iTunes will erase the friend's iPod in order to sync? With thanks
in advance ...
Before attac
I have several Yahoo email accounts. Since I usually retrieve my email
with Thunderbird, I didn't notice that the online email now requires
using the full email address instead of the user ID for login. Flipped
through 3 accounts before I bothered to read the new rules on my
online-only account
I'm not a syncing expert. I've never sunk an iPod at all. But in
iTunes/preferences/devices/ check Disable automatic syncing for iPhones
and iPods.
One Man wrote:
I want to add some songs on my iTunes playlist to my friend's iPod, which is
already synced to another iTunes How can I do this,
I want to add some songs on my iTunes playlist to my friend's iPod, which is
already synced to another iTunes How can I do this, as I keep getting the
message that iTunes will erase the friend's iPod in order to sync? With thanks
in advance ...
Interesting. And the installer actually includes a boatload of things
they've been talking about for a while. All the extra options are checked by
default, but it's all pretty open and lots of explanations so I can't
imagine too many millions of people installing say, Window Live Mail or
Toolbar by
For those who are into such things, Windows Live Movie Maker has been released:
http://download.live.com/moviemaker
Among other improvements over the older versions, it supports full HD rendering
(1080p). Vista/Win7 only. Free.
**
I think Google is doing the a good job of making its Groups, on-line
apps, and other tools accessible and easy to use, but as the article
suggests, control and security are difficult and complicated.
And then there's the resisting the urge to become another evil
corporation thing.
TPiwowar wro
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