Thursday, 13 May 2010

Hunky-Dory?


This is just a quick follow up from a previous post, Windows 7 install. Good news! Almost everything is hunky-dory, the system itself is still stable and quick enough for most of my needs. disk space is looking good with no excessive churn, temp is o.k, yet I have a couple of black flies in my Chardonnay (thank you Alanis).
1. Photoshop elements 8 won't run for more than a couple of minutes without crashing! Annoying but not earth shattering. will just roll back to 7. There are better editors out there but I like the organiser and I've been with it since Photodeluxe 1.
2. Intermittent network problems. For some still unknown reason, at times I cannot connect to my mail server or the web but my Torrent client still downloads, my Twitter client still updates and Windows still says I'm still connected! Haven't worked it out yet, can't decide if it's hardware or software related. Also even if Firefox connects IE won't!
3. A complete failure of all my usb ports. Except my mouse! In the process of uninstalling all the drivers and starting again.
That will do for the moment and I appear to have used up my entire quota of exclamation marks for the month! Whoops! And next months! Best stop now.

1 comment:

Neil said...

Sorted the IE problem. It was set to connect through a proxy!
USB probs sorted, the clean up and reboot, along with reseting the connected devices seem to have worked.