well, seb ordered us up a brand spankin' new computer on monday, and it should get here some time this weekend... i hope. sees that Word, the only real program i regularly NEED on this computer aside from internet access, has decided to go on strike. you click to open the program or a file, and it pops up the little advertisement window, and then.... stalls indefinitely, and freezes everything else, so you're left hitting CRTL-ALT-DELETE over and over until it restarts, or, if that doesn't work, just unplugging the thing. as long as i don't try to use word, it seems, it will remain just as minimally functional as it was before. i found this little treat out today, so i even have to leave early for school to use the computer labs to complete some stupid write-ups. wheeee! it's like college all over again, only i can't just walk downstairs to this computer lab in my jammies. hopefully, the new computer will give us a few good years before it starts to stink it up. it will be quite an upgrade though, from a 128MB ram to a 1GB ram, newer software, much more hard drive space, dual DVD write drives, a foppy drive that works (like we need it anyway) and more USB ports than you can shake a stick at. the really hard part will be restraining myself from smashing the old laptop to bits with a sledgehammer in a frenzied rage (i have violent tendiencies with inanimate objects) when the new desktop is up and running... we're gonna try to salvage it for whatever usefullness is left.
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Have you run anti-spyware/adware and antivirus programs on your old computer? That may help eliminate slowness and (perhaps) even help with you Word problem. Running a firewall while on-line helps too, if you don't already do that.
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