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TECHNO
THRILLS
I
waited as long as I could for Helly to buy me an Apple, and
pulled the
trigger on this a few days ago. No delivery info yet, but can't
be
soon enough. The clincher was the the 2TB hard drive. It
was not so
long ago the the drive alone cost more than the machine. Here's
something else the gob-smacked me. I'm taking my down time opportunity
to to clean up my mess, like deleting old programs I had installed, and
have no idea why. Here ↓ I threw out Power
Director
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... using IOBit (Advance System
Care).
Look at the crap that was left in the registry after running the
Windows uninstall program. Can you imagine? Not all are
this bad, but
there are always at least a dozen registry items left. By the by,
I'm
not entirely sure that Advance
System Care was not responsible for my
problems. Drew (from Moonbattery) had earlier sang
its praises, so maybe not.
Years ago, I think it was
SondraK who
observed, "I don't know anyone who
has more problems with their
computer than you, and it's all because you keep installing software
you don't need." I didn't listen then, and I prolly won't
now, because
I like to create crisis in my life, or so it seems. Maybe because I
miss the adrenaline rush from parachuting into occupied France, and
stealing library books from Nazi General Choltitz-
for kicks. But, that episode, and the reprimand, is still
officially Top Secret.
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