Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

If you explain that in one of the shops, they might have a sort of tutorial they could walk you through.

Other than that, the Local Authority often has free lessons geared up to the more mature and scared would-be PC user. Sometimes libraries do, too. Might be worth enquiring.

ivyleaf

GDB2222 wrote: »

Possibly, the manufacturers adjust the heating elements to counter that?

I saw a piece about this very thing on TV a while back. They concluded that with a two-slot toaster, the only way to have the toast evenly browned on both sides is to put two slices in! And that if you're toasting two slices in a four-slot toaster, you should use the two inner slots (this does of course assume that the slots are arranged in a row ).

Pyxis Those moths are really lovely

Lydia Well done on the cycling! :T

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I finally have to admit defeat... since last night my PC's become almost unusable. It was most noticeable with Facebook - and today I am mostly unable to get any pages to load past the header and first post.

Even here it takes aaaaaaages to load a page, as I patiently wait and watch for a slow stream of all the server requests, which all show up in the bottom left hand corner... stuff like:
processing request
waiting for ....
resolving host
waiting for cache
waiting for ...
waiting for ....

Over and over again as it slowly goes through all the bits and bobs to load the pages.

I need to actually ..... buy a new PC. The thing that stops me really is fear of changing OSs. I'm still on XP.

When I visit my sibling I used to be "allowed" to Google for a couple of things on her laptop (after mine was "banned" for being too noisy as the fan was in overdrive all the time) .... and after every time I use it I get told I've "left it wrong" and "it's always like this when you touch it".

I really don't understand her OS at all.... it's all weird and stuff's confusing.



So I am scared of any new OS.

I've been using PCs since Ye Olden Days of DOS 3.1, pre Windows. I'm "competent", just resistant to change.... and I've finally given up the dream that Microsoft would announce "We made a mistake, XP is king, we're going back to that look/layout"

Windows 7 is actually pretty much ok (it is based on xp) and even windows 10 is not too bad and can be pretty xp like.

Both of these came out claiming to be fairly friendly on hard disk and RAM but of course after a few service releases they no longer were, I find now even 2GB of ram means you struggle with multiple complex firefox tabs. (Which is unfortunate because our 'main' PC which is a second hand ex company HP that must be more than 10 years old can not take any more RAM than that)

Pyxis

Also Age UK and the U3A offer lessons.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Windows 7 is actually pretty much ok (it is based on xp) and even windows 10 is not too bad and can be pretty xp like.

Both of these came out claiming to be fairly friendly on hard disk and RAM but of course after a few service releases they no longer were, I find now even 2GB of ram means you struggle with multiple complex firefox tabs. (Which is unfortunate because our 'main' PC which is a second hand ex company HP that must be more than 10 years old can not take any more RAM than that)

Apple is dead easy!


(Ducks to avoid missiles)

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

.... I find now even 2GB of ram means you struggle with multiple complex firefox tabs

I've struggled with more than 1-2 tabs for the last 2-3 years. I really try not to do it at all, ever.

If I want to do that I open notepad and copy/paste the additional urls until I can get round to them

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I also fear losing my installed software... stuff like the *coughs-pirate* Office 2003 ... and other stuff I can't remember what I've got

Could you clone your current hdd onto a new ssd, stick it into the new PC and do an upgrade to windows 7?

Pyxis

Pastures, what is your avatar?

I can't make it out.

ivyleaf

I bet there's a book in the "For Dummies" series called "Windows 10 for Dummies".

Pastures I have to say it would have been much kinder of your sibling to have shown you how to use the OS on her laptop, rather than leaving you to get on with it and then moaning at you

Pyxis I think PN's avatar is ripples of wet sand (if you see what i mean). Or water with the sun shining on it.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Could you clone your current hdd onto a new ssd, stick it into the new PC and do an upgrade to windows 7?

Probably not... it'd all go wrong. That's just how things are... everything always goes wrong when you try to "be clever" or cut corners