45 minutes after being switched on, my ancient home PC is finally in gear and running the fastest it runs, hooray!
It is still, of course, painfully slow. To load a page you're looking at 2 minutes, maybe 1, if you're lucky.
As for opening more than one program at once, just, er don't. That's simply asking for trouble.
Anyway! This thing was bought in 2002 or something, so I am not here to rant about it. I expect this.
I am here to rant about my piece of crap laptop I bought in July
last year for £465.
It was brand new, up to the minute technology (Vista... which deserves a whole other thread or 7 for ranting), Norton anti-virus, blah, blah, blah.
I blame myself for not getting it seen to sooner. For the last 2 months or so it's been sporadically failing to start right, and doing Startup Repair to itself.
But now, the damn thing won't start AT ALL. It's in a perpetual state of fruitless Startup Repair.
Is it really too much to ask, when I hand over all the money that I can possibly scrape together, that I get a machine that WORKS for more than 9 measly months? Is that unreasonable? ARG!
