Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sick PC
PC spectacularly sulky this morning. Loaded up Chrome OK after the usual 10 minutes whizzing and whirring. Then made what turned out to be the mistake of firing up Word. 10 more minutes whizzing and whirring followed by both Chrome and Word being sort of alive but very ill. Even task manager did not seem to be able to cope. CPU appeared to be running at 100%. In the end resorted to the power switch. Rebooted OK - without the usual palaver about what do you want to do about the fact that Windows did not close down properly - but have now missed the morning window of opportunity for posting so will have to try again later.
All a bit of a pain considering that the PC is on the latest service pack for XP with automatic update enabled and so should be behaving itself. Is my MS Corporation gently hinting that it is time I went to Windows 7 or whatever we have got up to now? Is it down to the PC garage to try and get the whizzing and whirring sorted out? Would any such attention disturb the presently stable broadband connection? Would a new PC disturb same? One more thing to be put on the list to be thought about tomorrow.
# posted by Jim @ 1:44 AM 
