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I am having a really hard time organizing my hundreds (thousands?) of firefox bookmarks. I've done dozens of google searches trying to figure out something to help.
do any of you have suggestions (like rapid-tagging, or quick ways to organize them all)? I've been tagging bookmarks, but got 1/3rd of the way through. it is a bit tedious, but I can do that if that's the best I can do right now.
I don't do social bookmarks (like delicious) at all.
OK, so that problem I was having a couple of weeks ago with screen blinking and fritzing and the computer rebooting by itself? Turned out it *was* a video card problem, solved by a new graphics card. The problem is, after the video card exchange, the programs seem to open and close a lot more slowly. Even browsing is a tad slower than before. I don't think the card I bought was that powerful (it's a GeForce 8400) compared to my old card, which I believe was NVidia 6000 series. Any ideas? I defragged and cleaned up the drives but that didn't seem to help that much.
I suspect I need more RAM (my current machine is about 3 years old and has only 1GB) but I wanted to know there is anything else I can do before I shell out the money for that.
If it's powerful enough to block you disclosing its name, it's powerful enough to do all kinds of crazy shit to your computer. Sorry.
Oh god, the video card got Vonnie!
(And also made me temporarily illiterate, clearly.)
HAHAHA. I don't know what the hell just happened -- the linking snafe ate the rest of the post! Or my new graphic card is evil, possibly.
Nope still here. Possibly Vonnie K, though (no worries, I often see her name and think "I haven't posted) it's the k/x thing.
The problem is, after the video card exchange, the programs seem to open and close a lot more slowly. Even browsing is a tad slower than before. I don't think the card I bought was that powerful (it's a GeForce 8400) compared to my old card, which I believe was NVidia 6000 series. Any ideas?
You might try uninstalling the drivers and installing the latest from Nvidia. The hardware shouldn't make any difference to speed, in this case at least.
Nope still here. Possibly Vonnie K, though
I get mistaken for you A LOT! Which probably means I should come to a F2F one of these days and meet you in person.
You might try uninstalling the drivers and installing the latest from Nvidia
Did that already. Actually, I didn't bother installing the drivers on CD that came with the purchase -- just went directly to the Nvidia main site and DL'd the latest compatible drivers. Perhaps I shouldn't have done that? Hmm.
just went directly to the Nvidia main site and DL'd the latest compatible drivers. Perhaps I shouldn't have done that?
I don't see why not, as long as you downloaded the right drivers for your card.
I'll check out to make sure that I did install the right drivers. I think the ones I installed were these: [link] They are supposed to be fine for 8-series, which I assumed to include the card I just purchased.
Now, for RAM. My 1GB stick is 3 years old and I read somewhere that it's much better to get a paired RAM than keep the old + add another in terms of performance? Obviously 2 RAM sticks are more expensive than one. Or should I be getting more than 2GB? I think I saw some computers that come equipped with 4GB. If I'm upgrading, maybe I should go for the max possible.