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Offline Barman

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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #135 on: February 27, 2010, 03:34:54 PM »
PS I've added a 8Gbyte SD card to my system and I'd say it has improved performance considerably...

I can only get it to use 4Gbytes for some reason but I'd say it is a worthwhile enhancement...
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #136 on: February 27, 2010, 09:51:32 PM »
Best tenner I've spent in ages judging from my laptop performance now.  cloud9:
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #137 on: February 28, 2010, 07:42:31 AM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on February 27, 2010, 09:51:32 PM
Best tenner I've spent in ages judging from my laptop performance now.  cloud9:

I didn't think of trying it on my laptop...  rubschin:

Did you optimise it for performance in Device Manager too?
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #138 on: February 28, 2010, 11:29:36 PM »
No, just saw the readyboost tab and gave in to curiosity.  redface:
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #139 on: March 01, 2010, 07:18:10 AM »
Why don't we all have a boost tab - now that would be useful  cloud9:
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #140 on: March 01, 2010, 07:20:23 AM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on March 01, 2010, 07:18:10 AM
Why don't we all have a boost tab - now that would be useful  cloud9:

I could do with a readyboost this morning....  surrender:
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #141 on: March 01, 2010, 12:08:18 PM »
Quote from: Barman on March 01, 2010, 07:20:23 AM
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on March 01, 2010, 07:18:10 AM
Why don't we all have a boost tab - now that would be useful  cloud9:

I could do with a readyboost this morning....  surrender:

I could do with one every day ~ The early morning cuppa no longer does the trick  noooo:
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #142 on: May 14, 2010, 12:34:33 PM »
Daughter's laptop (Compaq) failed to start - 2 choices, Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally.  Start Windows Normally just looped back to the same message.

Launch Startup Repair brings up a nice blue screen and...nothing. Or seemingly nothing.

You have to wait for about 30 minutes and then the Startup Repair box comes up and off it goes Searching for Problems. It's been at it for 40 minutes so far...
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #143 on: May 14, 2010, 01:00:29 PM »
My next will be a Mac  angel1
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #144 on: May 14, 2010, 01:34:55 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on May 14, 2010, 12:34:33 PM
Daughter's laptop (Compaq) failed to start - 2 choices, Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally.  Start Windows Normally just looped back to the same message.

Launch Startup Repair brings up a nice blue screen and...nothing. Or seemingly nothing.

You have to wait for about 30 minutes and then the Startup Repair box comes up and off it goes Searching for Problems. It's been at it for 40 minutes so far...

Mine did a whole load of updates yesterday - perhaps that caused it...?
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #145 on: May 14, 2010, 01:38:39 PM »
Quote from: Barman on May 14, 2010, 01:34:55 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on May 14, 2010, 12:34:33 PM
Daughter's laptop (Compaq) failed to start - 2 choices, Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally.  Start Windows Normally just looped back to the same message.

Launch Startup Repair brings up a nice blue screen and...nothing. Or seemingly nothing.

You have to wait for about 30 minutes and then the Startup Repair box comes up and off it goes Searching for Problems. It's been at it for 40 minutes so far...

Mine did a whole load of updates yesterday - perhaps that caused it...?

Apparently is been gubbed for a few days...
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #146 on: May 14, 2010, 02:35:36 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on May 14, 2010, 01:38:39 PM
Quote from: Barman on May 14, 2010, 01:34:55 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on May 14, 2010, 12:34:33 PM
Daughter's laptop (Compaq) failed to start - 2 choices, Launch Startup Repair or Start Windows Normally.  Start Windows Normally just looped back to the same message.

Launch Startup Repair brings up a nice blue screen and...nothing. Or seemingly nothing.

You have to wait for about 30 minutes and then the Startup Repair box comes up and off it goes Searching for Problems. It's been at it for 40 minutes so far...

Mine did a whole load of updates yesterday - perhaps that caused it...?

Apparently is been gubbed for a few days...

Sunspots!
They gub everything.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #147 on: May 14, 2010, 02:37:53 PM »
It says it's repaired itself. But it takes over 10 minutes to boot up. Hmm....
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #148 on: May 14, 2010, 03:13:47 PM »
Quote from: Nick on May 14, 2010, 01:00:29 PM
My next will be a Mac  angel1


My five penny worth
They are NOT all they are cracked up to be ~ they do go wrong, they do get bugs, virus etc and they cost a fvck of a lot more to buy, repair and replace.
Worth the expense only if you are into design.
Your work is mainly www lookups and word processing. A Mac would be largely redundant.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #149 on: May 14, 2010, 03:28:34 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on May 14, 2010, 03:13:47 PM
Quote from: Nick on May 14, 2010, 01:00:29 PM
My next will be a Mac  angel1


My five penny worth
They are NOT all they are cracked up to be ~ they do go wrong, they do get bugs, virus etc and they cost a fvck of a lot more to buy, repair and replace.
Worth the expense only if you are into design.
Your work is mainly www lookups and word processing. A Mac would be largely redundant.

MACs are not used much for design these days, ceratinly not in the printing world where Quark is now on PCs. They are too expensive.

Most of the school IT jobs I have applied for have included looking after MACs - the last one had a room full of them (plus a MAC server) and they are used for musci - keyboards etc attached.
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