So I have finally done it. I bought a new laptop, so that the Missus can inherit my old one. It is a rather nice machine – a Packard Bell EasyNote LJ71 I have spent the last twelve hours transferring gigabytes of data onto it from the old one. Not a joyful task. It has [...]
Filed under: Tech stuff on July 25th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I had an interesting problem on the spare laptop the other day. There were two symptoms – the screen would go blank and the laptop would lock up, or else the Windows bar would develop streaks, as if it had been wiped with steel wool. My first reaction was that the video drivers had become [...]
Filed under: Tech stuff on July 19th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As I said in my last post, I rebuilt the operating system on this laptop. It was a straightforward restore from the factory backup, which I had done before and had no problems with. This time however, I noticed a couple of strange things happening. The first thing I noticed was that the Vista Sidebar [...]
Filed under: Tech stuff on June 6th, 2010 | No Comments »
