Saturday, 3/1/08: Technology Troubles
My computer has been running progressively slower lately, and I can't figure out why! (Please excuse my technological incompetence for a moment.) My normal usage consists of having Outlook, Firefox, and Paint Shop Pro open. This has been my pattern since getting the computer two years ago. I don't know what, if any, random background programs are running, and I don't know how to figure out what they are and whether they're necessary.
I tried running a disk check, clean-up, and defrag, and I'm hopeful. There was a period during the disk check that I was suddenly terrified that it was wiping my hard drive clean (see: technological incompetence), and I hadn't backed things up in a while. When the computer pulled through that without incident, I immediately plugged in my external hard drive, so whew. Should be safe. I just hope whatever I did worked... it's extremely frustrating to have things move at a snail's pace. =/
I tried running a disk check, clean-up, and defrag, and I'm hopeful. There was a period during the disk check that I was suddenly terrified that it was wiping my hard drive clean (see: technological incompetence), and I hadn't backed things up in a while. When the computer pulled through that without incident, I immediately plugged in my external hard drive, so whew. Should be safe. I just hope whatever I did worked... it's extremely frustrating to have things move at a snail's pace. =/