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I suppose I should have expected this having decided on a new computer. The old one seems to be on its very last legs. It won't open Firefox at all anymore and the IE that came with it is apparently old enough that there are several websites that it can't load. CAs far as I can tell I can't update IE without updating the OS which I can't do on this computer. Not enough RAM to run it...

I'm tempted to go somewhere else and hunt one down that I can use. Ah, the problem with ordering as opposed to buying one off the shelf. The benefits outweigh the pain in the asseness of it though.

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ixtli-awakening.livejournal.com

it's rather like they know they're being replaces and act up even more out of spite. my laptop is on its last legs. (boot-up time just gets longer and longer. the wireless receiver, Ethernet, and essentially everything related to the internet simply do not work. the list goes on.)

i sympathize.

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siriciryon.livejournal.com

Two words, based solely on the lengthening boot time: Back Up.

From:

ixtli-awakening.livejournal.com

*beep-beep-beep*

but seriously, thanks for the advice. i'm leaving the rotten little bastard more or less alone for the next few days, and once the insanity calms a bit after Monday, i'll be doing just that. (as it is, the library computers are proving more cooperative, so most of my Important Things for this semester are on a flash drive.)

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siriciryon.livejournal.com

Slowing system performance like that tends to be one of precisely three things:
1) You have some kind of malware which is loading more and more system instructions into the machine, requiring more and more time to run them all.
2) You have a drive which is increasingly very close to completely full, leaving no space for the OS to put things while it calculates.
3) Your hard drive is failing and requiring increasing numbers of attempts in physical disk operation to get the full set of startup instructions.

You would know whether #2 is likely; #3 is what requires the backup as safety precaution. I don't have much specific advice if #1 seems likely based on your usual behaviors with the machine, but there should be some options.

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dallimar.livejournal.com

Hey, you forgot 'You're running M$'

Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that my experience shows that over the years any version of windows will get progressively slower. (not including Vista or 7 which haven't been out long enough to tell)