Friday, March 12, 2010

Win 7

Has anyone seen Windows 7? I have and I think it's a vast improvement over Vista. Much faster and less bugs. What's your opinion?

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Help. . .

The computer I use, the family computer, is a Dell Dimension desktop + Windows XP. We've had it for probably six years. At least. I think its beginning to fail. If you could see it you would understand.
As soon as I start it up in the morning it is extremely slow and freezes a lot. We run a disc cleanup and defragmenter a lot, but it doesn't seem to help. I don't know if it needs more RAM or if there is something else that could fix the problem, but I know one thing: it needs a cleanup. I don't think we've cleaned the dust from the keyboard, monitor, CPU, etc. more than once. But I'm sure that would help, at least a little bit.
I'm starting to think about backing up my files on discs (I am a writer so I really don't want to lose my 285+ page draft) and I have a feeling this thing is going to crash very soon. Does anybody have any suggestions, besides the ones I've mentioned, that you think would keep this thing running, or do you think it is just too old and will have to eventually die for good? Oh and by the way, if you see any inexpensive PCs that are in good condition, let me know. I'm starting a fund.
My brother already has a jar he's filling with pennies. Good luck, John.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

USB 3.0

Well the new USB 3.0 came out last year. Its 4.8 gbits is much faster than the previous 480 mbits with USB 2.0. It is also faster than the firewire cable which is 800 mbits. I think this will revolution ize our technology especially our portable devices.