The email shuffle...
Jan. 17th, 2005 08:15 pmAnd the latest in the series of email programs I'm trying is Thunderbird *sigh*
About 2 or 3 weeks ago, my computer started running out of resources very quickly (i.e. if I opened up 2 copies of Word or had more than dozen or so websites open at once), getting down to 6% or 5% free. I did all the obligatory stuff (updated all required software and checked all the stuff at startup and defragged and deleted tmp files) and even moved the Swap file to another drive.
Actually that last was a bit stupid. I defragged drive D, where the swap file lives, and it came up full of white squares with red marks -- bad/damaged area of disk! Arck! The drive is covered with them! So there's no room left for the swap file! I was looking at it again last night and noticed the white square with red dot was "data that will not be moved" in other words, the swap file. So the drive occupied by the swap file had areas occupied by the swap file. Ok... Some people shouldn't be allowed near a computer
The frustrating thing wasn't nothing had changed. No hardware changes. No significant changes to the programs I was running (other than AV updates). No new utilities added. I had started running the radio through the computer but that didn't seem to be having any noticable effect. Then a mention that the new version of Eudora is a resource hog, and, hmmm, when did I install that? 3 weeks ago...
So it's been temporarily replaced to see if the problem goes away.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago, my computer started running out of resources very quickly (i.e. if I opened up 2 copies of Word or had more than dozen or so websites open at once), getting down to 6% or 5% free. I did all the obligatory stuff (updated all required software and checked all the stuff at startup and defragged and deleted tmp files) and even moved the Swap file to another drive.
Actually that last was a bit stupid. I defragged drive D, where the swap file lives, and it came up full of white squares with red marks -- bad/damaged area of disk! Arck! The drive is covered with them! So there's no room left for the swap file! I was looking at it again last night and noticed the white square with red dot was "data that will not be moved" in other words, the swap file. So the drive occupied by the swap file had areas occupied by the swap file. Ok... Some people shouldn't be allowed near a computer
The frustrating thing wasn't nothing had changed. No hardware changes. No significant changes to the programs I was running (other than AV updates). No new utilities added. I had started running the radio through the computer but that didn't seem to be having any noticable effect. Then a mention that the new version of Eudora is a resource hog, and, hmmm, when did I install that? 3 weeks ago...
So it's been temporarily replaced to see if the problem goes away.
