Computer Problems

Tonight life might, notice I said might, be looking better in the computing department. I have been mentioning computer problems for the past two or three months. My hard drive was very close to being full. It wasn’t actually nearly full, it was just showing nearly full. I moved everything off of it that I possibly could and could never get as much as 10gb free space, just between 3 and 6gb at the very best.

Twice after extended cleaning, deleting, sweating, the problem cleared up and showed well over 100gb available. The first time it happened I panicked and thought that I had lost part of my programs. I didn’t. It was simply a registry problem. I just lost the junk that was showing it as being full—trash, junk, garbage, whatever you want to call it.

I heard a program advertised that sounded like just what I needed, My Faster PC. The only thing faster about My Faster PC was the second word in its title. I went from slow to gosh awful slow and hang up after hang up. It was considerably worse after running My Faster PC. Fifty bucks down the drain. No matter how often I ran the program (they recommended once a month, I ran it every other day) it came up with three or four hundred errors—which I let it fix only to continue at gosh awful slow. DO NOT buy My Faster PC. Today I downloaded something called the Advanced Registry Optimizer, another fifty bucks (for a year) and right now that seems to have worked. Won’t really know for a week or two but at least it speeded up my computer rather than slowed it down more and I’ve got my 100plus gigabits free again.

Another big, big, big mistake was signing up for Carbonite—I don’t care how well it protects Rush Limbaugh. If you use external drives it is totally worthless. Stupid me, there was an offer of a thirty day free trial. I said, “Oh no, don’t need a trial, that’s what I want.” And plunked down my fifty buck (for a year.) I thought it was very important to upload my image files in case one of my drives went belly up. Guess what. Carbonite does not back up external USB drives, only your hard drive. Totally useless as all of my data files are on external USB drives. It is stupid to back up program files. You reinstall program files. You back up data files. If the C drive bit the dust I wouldn’t want to download it from Carbonite anyway, I would just reload the programs from discs for a clean reinstall. Considering the fact that it took almost thirty days leaving the computer on 24 hours a day for Carbonite to back up my C drive, the discs would be much, much, much, much faster. I bet that Rush does not have all his files on his C drive either—but he gets paid to say that.

For someone that used to be pretty softwear savvy I am sure screwing up lately. I just hope my latest download proves to be as good as it appears tonight.