FORGET POETRY...I'M BECOMING A TECH GEEK: Okay, not really, but I am very pleased with myself. After spending Monday night in laptop hell, I decided that I was of sufficient intelligence that I could fix the problem. After about five hours, I did. My laptop is now running faster and with no hiccups at all. Part of the problem was not having Internet Explorer 7 installed, but the other was something that really shocked me. I have Norton Anti-virus running and I had scanned the laptop obsessively looking for viruses and malware, but the scan kept coming back with nothing. I couldn't solve the "script error" that kept popping up on some websites that I'd previously viewed with no trouble at all.
After doing some research in a few tech forums, someone suggested that the script error was indeed a bug and that Norton might not pick it up. They suggested downloading the free version of Ad-aware and running it. After over an hour of scanning with Ad-aware, I was stunned to find 13 bugs and a Trojan virus...all of which had been missed by Norton. My laptop is now zipping along. So good in fact, I'm thinking of delaying my purchase of a new laptop until after the first of the year.
Thanks to everyone who commented both here and back-channel about redirecting my .com site to this blog. I'm 99.9 percent convinced that is the way to go. I'll probably give the blog a bit of an overhaul at the beginning of the year.
After doing some research in a few tech forums, someone suggested that the script error was indeed a bug and that Norton might not pick it up. They suggested downloading the free version of Ad-aware and running it. After over an hour of scanning with Ad-aware, I was stunned to find 13 bugs and a Trojan virus...all of which had been missed by Norton. My laptop is now zipping along. So good in fact, I'm thinking of delaying my purchase of a new laptop until after the first of the year.
Thanks to everyone who commented both here and back-channel about redirecting my .com site to this blog. I'm 99.9 percent convinced that is the way to go. I'll probably give the blog a bit of an overhaul at the beginning of the year.
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Robin