Nothing Like a New Computer…
My office computer is over 4 years old and starting to get tired and slow, at least from what I remember it used to be like. It is backed up regularly, cleaned of .tmp files but struggles to defrag - probably because it has thousands and thousands of files and many gig of data. I had decided last Christmas I would shop for a new computer in the new year but with our holiday overseas earlier this year, and then an upcoming convention that has taken my attention outside of normal work (not to mention all the blogging on other blogs) I just hadn’t gotten around to it. But then the old computer stopped working 3 times in the last month - thought it was a sign I should take notice of before a real drama occurs.
So, yesterday I trotted down to Officeworks and looked at some of the specials there and brought home specs for three of them. I also looked at Dell’s specials online and printed off the specs there too. Graham and I pored over them and compared notes, then decided which was the best one and I trotted back to Officeworks to pick up my brand new HP Pavilion 1240a and also Win XP Pro.
I installed the operating system last night (it had Win XP Home and I wanted the Professional edition) but left the software installation till today - a good 10 hours later and the software is installed, most of my data is transferred over (I’m sure to have left something out) and now I’m finetuning, resetting things and getting it to look how it was before. It’s all the modifications that take the most time as reinstalling software and transferring data over does not always mean the modifications come too. But so far, I am quite happy - it fires up much, much faster (something like at least 4-5 times faster) and closes down quickly too. And I can carefully work at creating new folders and items and hopefully maintain some order without it getting out of hand.
Oh, I do love to play and whilst for some, they could think of nothing worse, for me it’s something I enjoy doing - a fresh start! KMT
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Gee thanks for your kind comments Rockerz. I will visit your’s. I wonder if you’ve looked at any of my other blogs? I have lots to say so manage a number on different topics.
Best regards,
Kathie
Congrat on getting your new computer. I have found that whenever I upgrade my hardware I get a huge boost in productivity