Time for a Change
I’ll be switching computers very soon. This old Lenovo has served me well but with this BIOS clock going off every day and crazy restarts happening, I think it is time to get a new computer and transfer my data over while it is still alive! (Plus my husband wants to get a new computer [...]
Read MoreFrustrations with Vista
Any day now, any day now I am going to replace this old Lenovo with something, anything running on Windows 7. Well, anything that is running on anything but Vista. I think the last straw was the printer not working. Granted, I lost the installation CD because some benign night elf living in my study [...]
Read MoreFunny Vent Smell in Lenovo v100
There was a best-I-can-describe-it portable heater smell emanating from the vent of my Lenovo v100 a few days ago. I’d been leaving the laptop on and leaving my glass a tad too close to the vent and caused 2 auto shutdowns due to overheating (this is from retrospect). The most likely possibility was that perhaps [...]
Read MoreBlack Screen on Monitor Fix
This happened to me twice. Once on my Lenovo and today again on hubby’s desktop. After booting and running the Windows start up screen, the monitor blanks out. Something about analog or digital. I just wanted to shake the monitor into waking up again. Anyway, with the laptop it was easy since it works with [...]
Read MoreSD Card Reader Down
So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos! While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get: Windows cannot load [...]
Read MoreMissing GB in Vista Recovered!
When I first acquired my Lenovo v100, my 100GB went from 70GB free to 0.5GB free in a matter of weeks. This never happened on XP, 98SE, or any other system I had. Only with Vista. Initially I thought the problem was just system restore. I’d managed to free 13GB by deleting all the old [...]
Read MoreSeeing Double Logins in Vista
Some of you who have the (mis)fortune of buying a computer or laptop with Vista already installed may have experienced this when a new update was installed. At the login screen you see a duplicate of your login ids. I saw 2 pairs of cats and dogs for several weeks till I decided to search [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures Season 4: Speeding up Vista
How to speed up the performance of Vista? Simple… 1. Turn off Aero Yes, you bought the upgrade for the pretty but it seriously lags your computer. I finally turned it off after yanking out wads of hair in frustration. Save your hair, especially if you’re a little short, and turn off Aero. Download some [...]
Read MoreWindows Vista Adventures – Season 2
Today I decided to test run my new mini-mouse and work from the Lenovo. I have to say I’ve found a wealth of good and a sea of bad. I always like to give the good news first. The good: I enabled the Aero display setting again and this time it doesn’t seem to lag [...]
Read MoreWindows Vista Adventures – Season 1
My spanking new laptop, the Lenovo 3000 V100 (okay, really need a nick for it now) comes with Vista Business. I have used it 4-5 times since I got it (still on company laptop for now) and here’s what I think so far as a new user. Vista is a very different animal. It is [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
