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Nov 20, 2008 11:34AM
Oof...how odd. Are you sure he didn't pick up a virus or something? Might want to have it looked it. Vista isn't supposed to make things look all weird.
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Hmm...could be. Still might want to get it checked though. Is it a recent development or has it always been like that? I don't much like Vista, but it isn't like we can do anything about it. *shrug*
Is your Dad's computer new? If so you can try calling the comp. company. I would also consider contacting Microsoft, that is if you really think it is a problem with Vista. I know there were many drawbacks and issues with Vista, which is why it has been discontinued.
You know, if there is a discontinuation with Vista, he may be able to get a new system installed for relatively cheap, since he has had so many problems with it. Maybe...?
Sorry, no it hasn't been discontinued. I was thinking of another Microsoft program. Sorry about that. You can go to their website to trouble shoot:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/help...
If? Has it? Eh? Ugh, I'm getting a Mac next time...
Good Move.
Good Move.
I've just spent the last four days reviving two laptops that were too bad slow and beat up to use - constant freezing and blue screens. One is XP. Also improving two others for my cafe. These are the programs I used to do the job (all free) and how I did it. First scan machine with your anti-virus.1) PC Inspector decrapifier. Download and just follow instructions to get rid of useless crap you never use.
2) Control Panel add/remove programs. Get rid of more crap.
3) Go through documents and get rid of unwanted stuff inc. pics and music.
4) Download CCleaner and use Tools to get rid of more stuff. Use Reg. Cleaner to clean things up automatically. Also look at the cookie option and get rid of everything (unless you want the cookie for some reason).
5) Download Auslogic defrag. Run it. Its extremely fast.
6) Immediately afterwards run Ccleaner again.
7) Download Auslogic reg. cleaner. Run it. See the amazing speed improvement!!!
8) Repeat 5) 6) and 7) and everything was running smooth and fast.
It takes a while (but you can read while its happening). None of the programs requires more than ticking checkboxes, it doesn't require any kind of technie knowledge.
Fiona - if you look at the various options in OE I think you will find that something about connecting is checked when nothing should be checked about connecting since DSL handles all that.
I know this sounds long-winded and worthless but one of the computers was so bad it was replaced a year and a half ago (or maybe two years, I forget) with the other crap computer by my son. He replaced that second one two weeks ago and now these two old ones are great.
I don't even use an anti-virus. Not that my computer doesn't remind me to install Norton every 3-4 hours... We just do regular clean ups every 6 months or so and try to avoid known virus riddled sites. Seems to work okay. It's that color thing that throws me off. I've never heard of that before.
Oh goodness I hope you can fix it for him. Will admit this post makes me a little anxious. I just brought a new laptop Nov 3 and it has vista in it. I paid over $500 for this hope it holds up a long while.
AVG is free not paid for and is extremely easy to uninstall. Just go to Start, Programs and AVG and it has its own uninstaller.The long instructions before are extremely easy and aren't for viruses but for cleaning up slow running machines. I must admit looking at that post it looks impossible but you did ask for a techie (which I'm not) so I thought wanted that sort of thing.
Wow Fiona! Your dad is 82? I think my dad would be 90 if he was still alive. Wow. I'm impressed he has a computer & MP3 player too!
wow. Good for him! Give him a hug for me next time you see him. I love older people, esp. the hip types :)
That's so cool! Do you ever tell him? Or would he take it the wrong way, like you're patronizing him or something?
That is awesome that your Dad is 82.
If my father had lived he would have been 80 now. I have a sister in law who is 90 though. She tells me stories of the old days on the island when she used to gallop around the place lady-style (side saddle) and stuff like that.
Both my grandfathers are in their 80's one is 82 the other is 84. My parents are a bit younger.
I used to know Dr. Spock, the baby guy http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...) not the one with pointy ears. He actually babysat my kid once. Anyway, when he was 84 he competed in a rowing race, 4 miles there and 4 back over open sea. He came 8th out of 8 participants. But congrats for doing it. I thought that was amazing for 84.
Vista sucks....we had a vista computer in the office at work & my co-worker reformated it & removed the vista program & now it runs wonderfully! Maybe try to do something like that with your dad's computer. FYI: my grandfather is 86 & he goes kayaking every chance he gets. In fact, he has more of a social life than I do. I love him so much! :)
Good luck with the computer issues. Computers are fun when they work, and totally annoying when they don't.
