I am in desperate need of a new laptop. Several years of heavy use and occasional dropping on the floor are taking its toll. This one has been running quite slowly, and I don't know whether that would be the RAM or the speed of the processor. Any easy way I can find out what's responsible for the sluggishness?
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Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 8:10:57 am PDT #14676 of 25501
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Dana - Aug 23, 2010 8:14:21 am PDT #14677 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Do you periodically run a virus checker and a malware checker?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 8:14:53 am PDT #14678 of 25501
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Yep, both of those.
le nubian - Aug 23, 2010 8:24:56 am PDT #14679 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
have you run cccleaner?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 8:36:23 am PDT #14680 of 25501
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Is that the disk cleanup and defragmentation tools in the control panel? I do that a lot too.
le nubian - Aug 23, 2010 8:40:53 am PDT #14681 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think it is a 3rd party free program. Not anything that installs with Windows.
tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 8:42:26 am PDT #14682 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm not sure of exactly what you want, tommyrot, but this page might help: [link]
That looks informative... but I still can't get it to do what I want. The current sticking point is that I want to be able to turn wordwrap off, but give the user the ability to enter hard carriage returns to force a new line when they want.
tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 8:54:19 am PDT #14683 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, I got the manual line break to work when there are otherwise no word wrapping.
<textarea name='txtNote2' rows='14' cols='93' wrap="off">
Damn, that's simple. Now I need to get Javascript to switch between this and automatic word wrap, but I think that shouldn't be too hard....
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 9:02:21 am PDT #14684 of 25501
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I think it is a 3rd party free program.
Oh, thanks. I'll have a look for that.
Toddson - Aug 23, 2010 10:07:46 am PDT #14685 of 25501
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CCCleaner will do a very enthusiastic job of cleaning stuff off your computer ... possibly including some stuff you want.
It is a third-party free program and it will clean your system up. But make a back-up of files and make sure you can re-install any non-original programs when it's done.