Comments on: Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters January 4th

By: David F Forness

David F Forness — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:01:35 +0000

My computer crashed just before Christmas and coincidentally my tech who has built, upgraded, and repaired, all of my computers for at least the last fifteen years, was on vacation for two weeks. It was more than I could figure out and since the computer was seven months old and still under warranty, I had to wait for his return. We tried a few things via his cell phone but nothing worked.

I have been back in service for a week and am now just getting caught up after a hard drive
reformat and fresh installation of the operating system and reinstalling all my programs. Yes! I am definitely, positively, going to purchase an external hard drive very soon both for me and my wife.

All of that is to say that I just saw the comment in today’s newsletter so I went back to see last week’s cartoon. Keep them coming. I chuckled when I saw it. I could see myself doing the same thing except I am now retired and have a whole lot more patience since things are a lot calmer.

By: Bob A

Bob A — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:57:41 +0000

I like having the cartoon. I agree with others, we need a daily chuckle in current times.

By: terry

terry — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:10:42 +0000

Wonder what they’re talking about?

See the cartoon in this week’s online newsletter at http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/news_20090104.php

Terry

By: Alex Lang

Alex Lang — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:44:22 +0000

Sometimes I wish I could do just that.
Please keep it going, & many thanks.

By: Bev L

Bev L — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:22 +0000

Definitely, a very nice addition and you had a great one this Sunday. Thank you for all your time and knowledge.

By: Chet Norris

Chet Norris — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:39:08 +0000

In my case it’s always the user….ME!
keep the cartoon.

By: Becky W

Becky W — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:19:40 +0000

I love the cartoon! Please keep it.

By: David

David — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:14:36 +0000

Re: Moving Programs to Other Drives.
We’re going back to the days of Win95, upgrading to Win98, and my original drive was originally very small (just a few gigs!)and I installed a larger one plus a slave. I had to resort to partitioning to fool the beast into recognising the (slightly!)larger capacity drives and I did install additional programs on the second drive with no problems. I assume that any required registry entries would still be on the “C” drive but provided I specified the “Program Files 2″ folder I had created on the slave, the installs went off without a hitch.
However, I can’t really see any need for doing that these days!
I’m slightly confused about the many differing opinions on the page/swap file mentioned in one comment. It seems generally agreed that putting the page file on a second drive is A GOOD THING but nobody seems to totally agree on how large or even if there should be one as well on the “C” drive. (Windows managed or fixed size?)I read somewhere that either Windows or some programs expect to see a page file of some sort on the “C” drive and the writer recommended having a small one there and the “main” one on the second drive, as they said that Windows constantly uses the page file, no matter how much RAM is available. Any thoughts on that? Also, I have had a look at the idea of a RAM drive to put the page file on (if Windows DOES use it all the time), as it’s supposed to run a lot faster but presumably it needs more RAM to run, which seems something of a vicious circle. It would appear that it would be best just to load up the RAM with the max. that Windows will recognise, anyway and leave it at that.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:15:06 +0000

oops, here’s the link to the blog on 10,000 RPM drives:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000800.html

By: David

David — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:10:50 +0000

Absolutely fine, Terry. Carry on! We need something to lighten the day sometimes! Can I also recommend the newsletter from MakeUseOf.com?
http://www.makeuseof.com
There is an off-shoot of that site called Geeky Fun
http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/
which also offers some light relief from the toils of the day and current troubles!