More Windows download problems!
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:58 pm
Probably .. I had enormous problems in May after a huge Windows update on my desktop PC. Everything crashed and, after a series of further updates (which presumably were busy putting things right again), the PC finally sorted itself out. After a month. During which the PC was of course unusable.
Same old nonsense now. Without much warning, the PC has again crashed - there don't seem to be indications of any virus etc., but the PC takes twenty minutes to boot up and none of my files, apps, bookmarks etc. are accessible.
I was persuaded against my better judgement to take the console into 1066 Computers - big mistake! They don't seem to have much idea of what they are doing, the shop is a bit chaotic and their promise of getting back to me in a week has turned into three weeks - and still all they can say is that they are very busy .. I will give them one more week, then take the unit back and give them up as a bad job.
My problem is also that for much of the last few months my Sky broadband connection has been dropping. I am currently using my Samsung smartphone, but I have switched off the wi-fi because the phone was trying to connect to the Sky hub - and the wi-fi was failing almost every day! Back on 4G, I'm having no problem at all.
Sky just deny and won't do anything, but I would say that for atleast half the time this year my PC has been out of action. So what I am thinking of doing is getting a laptop (maybe second-hand) and just using it for storage, for working on my writing and for editing my photos. I have some people currently interested in publishing some of my writing, but of course without a working computer all that activity has come to an abrupt halt.
I wondered if anybody had any views on that. For several years, before I bought a desktop, I used a laptop offline, managed to do some great things on there (even event flyers and posters!) without any worries about viruses, malware or internet issues.
I live on my own and don't have any computer nerds amongst my relatives, so I think I don't have much choice but to take a step backwards and make my home set-up rather simpler.
Same old nonsense now. Without much warning, the PC has again crashed - there don't seem to be indications of any virus etc., but the PC takes twenty minutes to boot up and none of my files, apps, bookmarks etc. are accessible.
I was persuaded against my better judgement to take the console into 1066 Computers - big mistake! They don't seem to have much idea of what they are doing, the shop is a bit chaotic and their promise of getting back to me in a week has turned into three weeks - and still all they can say is that they are very busy .. I will give them one more week, then take the unit back and give them up as a bad job.
My problem is also that for much of the last few months my Sky broadband connection has been dropping. I am currently using my Samsung smartphone, but I have switched off the wi-fi because the phone was trying to connect to the Sky hub - and the wi-fi was failing almost every day! Back on 4G, I'm having no problem at all.
Sky just deny and won't do anything, but I would say that for atleast half the time this year my PC has been out of action. So what I am thinking of doing is getting a laptop (maybe second-hand) and just using it for storage, for working on my writing and for editing my photos. I have some people currently interested in publishing some of my writing, but of course without a working computer all that activity has come to an abrupt halt.
I wondered if anybody had any views on that. For several years, before I bought a desktop, I used a laptop offline, managed to do some great things on there (even event flyers and posters!) without any worries about viruses, malware or internet issues.
I live on my own and don't have any computer nerds amongst my relatives, so I think I don't have much choice but to take a step backwards and make my home set-up rather simpler.