Frustrations 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 MoreThat FFmpeg Problem on Vista
Words cannot express how much I *loathe* Vista. Those of you who have followed my blogs back when must recall . Anyway… this one is like a mosquito buzzing around your head. You try to ignore it, hoping it will go away. Then get annoyed and try to slap it but it fail. Finally, like [...]
Read MoreWoW – the Fix
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did. In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under [...]
Read MoreWoW Woes
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch. Now when I restarted it, the News page [...]
Read MoreBEFORE You Subscribe to WoW…
Make sure you patch the game first. I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching. I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly [...]
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 MoreNot a Day for Online Gaming
Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited… and waited… half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look for my old Sacred Gold [...]
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 MoreVista Adventures: Common XP Problems
Yes, I’ve tons of complaints about Vista but XP has driven me up the wall before. It is always the case that when you have something new to complain about, the old gets forgotten. It is convenient I have forgotten the number of reformats I had had to do and the many restarts. This article [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures: SP1
After much consideration, I decided my time is better spent not trying to downgrade to XP – I hate reformatting and all the work that it involves unless the computer isn’t mine. Instead, I should look towards SP1 with hope that it can solve the numerous problems Vista has inflicted me with. Okay, I confess [...]
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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.
