Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:02:33 +0100
David Lang wrote:

Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the
price of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?



It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.

--
Davey.

On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

Have a look at CCleaner and Smart Defrag 4.

--
F

www.vulcantothesky.org - 2015, the last year to see a Vulcan fly

On 29/07/15 23:18, Davey wrote:
Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.


That is the easier option than wading through the mysteries and band-aid
fixes of windows "security" software.

But I guess the OP likes Windows. So what to download?

How long is a piece of string?






PC world have an instore check-up service. Given that it could be
billable time that might be wasted, what they charge might be cheap.

--
Adrian C

On 29/07/2015 23:31, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 29/07/15 23:18, Davey wrote:
Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.


That is the easier option than wading through the mysteries and band-aid
fixes of windows "security" software.

But I guess the OP likes Windows. So what to download?

I don't, it just comes with the machine. I have no idea what Linux is.
Possibly a character from Peanuts?

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:31, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 29/07/15 23:18, Davey wrote:
Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.


That is the easier option than wading through the mysteries and
band-aid fixes of windows "security" software.

But I guess the OP likes Windows. So what to download?

I don't, it just comes with the machine. I have no idea what Linux
is. Possibly a character from Peanuts?




Nah, Linus wasn't part of this.

Try:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

I have both Win7 and Ubuntu on my PC. In my opinion, and I am
not a Linux "Windows is the spawn of the Devil" fanatic (I can direct
you to some of those sites, but you need asbestos underwear), Linux is
far superior to Windows, and a darn sight less liable to be hacked and
scammed by unscrupulous folks.
I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I can't
get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the extra space.
If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a Linux machine.

--
Davey.

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I can't
get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the extra space.
If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)

On 29/07/2015 23:23, F wrote:
On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

Have a look at CCleaner and Smart Defrag 4.

Thanks. I installed a free trial of CC Cleaner and its already made a
huge difference.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

--
Davey.

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:31:33 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 29/07/15 23:18, Davey wrote:
Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.


That is the easier option than wading through the mysteries and band-aid
fixes of windows "security" software.

But I guess the OP likes Windows. So what to download?

Windows 10?

"David Lang" wrote in message ...

On 29/07/2015 23:31, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 29/07/15 23:18, Davey wrote:
Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


It's called changing to a Linux OS and ditching Windows for ever.


That is the easier option than wading through the mysteries and band-aid
fixes of windows "security" software.

But I guess the OP likes Windows. So what to download?

I don't, it just comes with the machine. I have no idea what Linux is.
Possibly a character from Peanuts?

Linux is similar to other operating systems.
Each does the job in hand.
Each has users.
Each has fanatics.

Think religion...

On 29/07/15 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


Sure.

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=192

--
New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in
someone else's pocket.

It has been my experience that half the problem is stuff which is started at
start up and runs just in case its needed.
Obviously one has to be careful about what one turns off but I seem to
recall some web sites from reputable sources would tell you what all the
running processes are for and which are resource eaters in some
circumstances.
Brian

--
From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active
"David Lang" wrote in message
...
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean up,
defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price of
it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

It is for the average user, many of whom struggle with windows.

--
Colin Bignell

In message , Davey
writes
If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a Linux machine.

And I bought a Humax PVR in a local PCWorld closing down sale.

What an amazing design.

It has the same red LED for OFF and for Recording, so there is no way of
knowing what it is doing.

When you power it up, or when it starts recording, the TV picture goes
into blocks, the sound breaks up, then it comes back, then the picture
goes again. Finally after about a minute, it all stabilises. The old
Sony fires up seamlessly in about 6 seconds.

I know there are workarounds, but I certainly would not advocate this as
a representative Linux device.

While I was typing this, I had a call from Peter from Microsoft offering
to help me with the problems with my computer. You don't get that sort
of help from Linux :-) :-)

--
Bill

On 30/07/2015 00:01, David Lang wrote:
On 29/07/2015 23:23, F wrote:
On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

Have a look at CCleaner and Smart Defrag 4.

Thanks. I installed a free trial of CC Cleaner and its already made a
huge difference.

I assume Win8 has some sort of "Restore" function aka colonic irrigation

David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I wonder if it is (in part at least) a matter of perception.

IIRC you went from a pretty old desktop to the new laptop. So the new
laptop was probably faster at booting up, opening programs, opening
photos. You'd have noticed those changes.

Now you are used to it. So you no longer notice the changes. What you
notice instead is that you are again having to wait while the bloody
thing boots up, opens programs etc.

If so you could of course buy an even newer, more expensiove, better
machine; or only use your laptop when drinking and look upon time it
spends booting up etc as opportunities to bend the elbow of your choice


--
Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?



Just been through the same thing with a mate's W7 IBM C2D laptop. Slowed
to a crawl - minutes to open a browser.

Not helped by 2GB RAM, but we got it going fairly well by stripping out
all the IBM laptop functions (media keys, fingerprint software, other
stuff), and he'd attracted some adware that'd latched on to Chrome, so
ditched that and put on Firefox and AdAware. AVG antivirus kept.

FWIW, an SSD disk can transform these older machines IME. But no harm
(at all) in stripping out bad software.


--
Cheers, Rob

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:17:11 +0100
Bill wrote:

And I bought a Humax PVR in a local PCWorld closing down sale.

Bad idea to start with.

What an amazing design.

It has the same red LED for OFF and for Recording, so there is no way
of knowing what it is doing.

The answer to this is to install the optional Firmware, which enables
all sorts of useful things on your Humax.
Start he http://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Main_Page


When you power it up, or when it starts recording, the TV picture
goes into blocks, the sound breaks up, then it comes back, then the
picture goes again. Finally after about a minute, it all stabilises.
The old Sony fires up seamlessly in about 6 seconds.

See comment about PCWorld.

I know there are workarounds, but I certainly would not advocate this
as a representative Linux device.

Your choice, but plenty of others are happy with theirs. Maybe they
didn't buy then at a sale, though.

While I was typing this, I had a call from Peter from Microsoft
offering to help me with the problems with my computer. You don't get
that sort of help from Linux :-) :-)
Thankfully!

--
Davey.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:13:37 +0100
"Nightjar cpb" "insert my surname here.me.uk" wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

It is for the average user, many of whom struggle with windows.


Including cleaning them, it seems.

--
Davey.

On 30/07/2015 09:32, Robin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I wonder if it is (in part at least) a matter of perception.

IIRC you went from a pretty old desktop to the new laptop. So the new
laptop was probably faster at booting up, opening programs, opening
photos. You'd have noticed those changes.

It was noticeably faster at first.

Now you are used to it. So you no longer notice the changes. What you
notice instead is that you are again having to wait while the bloody
thing boots up, opens programs etc.

I get the annoying spinning circle and the hour glass now.

If so you could of course buy an even newer, more expensiove, better
machine; or only use your laptop when drinking and look upon time it
spends booting up etc as opportunities to bend the elbow of your choice


I'll explore the drinking option :-)

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the layman
its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an Elmsley
Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician would
immediately know what I was on about.

On 30/07/2015 09:05, Brian-Gaff wrote:
It has been my experience that half the problem is stuff which is started at
start up and runs just in case its needed.
Obviously one has to be careful about what one turns off but I seem to
recall some web sites from reputable sources would tell you what all the
running processes are for and which are resource eaters in some
circumstances.
Brian

I use the script on this site:

http://www.askvg.com/collection-of-r...for-windows-7/

I've used this script on Windows7 and 8. It gives a dramatic increase in
speed.
It's safe, I've been using it for about a year - ish.

Scroll down to the *Download Ready-Made Registry Script*.
It makes a dramatic difference to the speed.
It also gives you an included script to completely remove it should you
want to reverse it.
*Read all of the reviews if you are at all wary of it*

Hope this helps you.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:56:38 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the
layman its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an
Elmsley Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician
would immediately know what I was on about.



I can only refer you to the suggestion offered by The Natural
Philosopher:
"Insert DVD, follow instructions."

"Simples", as they say.

--
Davey.

On 30/07/2015 10:27, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:56:38 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the
layman its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an
Elmsley Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician
would immediately know what I was on about.



I can only refer you to the suggestion offered by The Natural
Philosopher:
"Insert DVD, follow instructions."

"Simples", as they say.

Assuming you had the faintest idea what Linux was and overcame the fear
of some dreadful calamity occurring
..

On 30/07/15 10:32, David Lang wrote:
On 30/07/2015 10:27, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:56:38 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the
layman its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an
Elmsley Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician
would immediately know what I was on about.



I can only refer you to the suggestion offered by The Natural
Philosopher:
"Insert DVD, follow instructions."

"Simples", as they say.

Assuming you had the faintest idea what Linux was and overcame the fear
of some dreadful calamity occurring
.
In the case of the OP, the Dreadful Calamity has already occurred.


--
New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in
someone else's pocket.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...

On 30/07/15 10:32, David Lang wrote:
On 30/07/2015 10:27, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:56:38 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the
layman its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an
Elmsley Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician
would immediately know what I was on about.



I can only refer you to the suggestion offered by The Natural
Philosopher:
"Insert DVD, follow instructions."

"Simples", as they say.

Assuming you had the faintest idea what Linux was and overcame the fear
of some dreadful calamity occurring
.
In the case of the OP, the Dreadful Calamity has already occurred.

Damn. He *is* the OP. 11/10 for that.

On 30/07/2015 10:17, Bod wrote:
On 30/07/2015 09:05, Brian-Gaff wrote:
It has been my experience that half the problem is stuff which is
started at
start up and runs just in case its needed.
Obviously one has to be careful about what one turns off but I seem to
recall some web sites from reputable sources would tell you what all the
running processes are for and which are resource eaters in some
circumstances.
Brian

I use the script on this site:

http://www.askvg.com/collection-of-r...for-windows-7/

I've used this script on Windows7 and 8. It gives a dramatic increase in
speed.
It's safe, I've been using it for about a year - ish.

Scroll down to the *Download Ready-Made Registry Script*.
It makes a dramatic difference to the speed.
It also gives you an included script to completely remove it should you
want to reverse it.
*Read all of the reviews if you are at all wary of it*

Hope this helps you.

Bod

Before you do that, I'd recommend that you go into msconfig and stop
everything starting in the startup menu *except for your anti-virus).
This also helps.

Bod

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Well you manage to appear stupid with effortless ease. Probably a
windows zealot...

Why don't you spend your time and energy addressing whatever market
failures have stopped Linux taking a larger share of the desktop
market - especially the consumer desktop market - despite manifest
advantages such as price? As it is this is yet another thread which
seems to me to support the (in)famous comment:

"The biggest killer of putting penguin software on the desktop was the
Linux community. If you think the Apple fanboys are completely barking,
they are role models of sanity to the loudmouthed Open Sauce religious
loonies who are out there."

https://web.archive.org/web/20131222...hance-has-gone

And AIUI you couldn't just install any old Linux distro and use Netflix
until last autumn. If so, how was that a system fit for the consumer
market?



--
Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

Huge wrote:
On 2015-07-30, Robin wrote:

Whilst you (and he) have a point, it's all irrelevant.

(i) The desktop market is dying. I was in a meeting the other day
where it was pointed out that the vast majority of access to our
website is from mobile devices. And MS have just failed completely in
their second attempt to break into the mobile market.

(ii) The war is over; Unix (and its relatives) won. Android is Unix.
iOS
is Unix. Blackberry is Unix (and dying itself, sadly). Windows Phone
is nowhere.

(iii) In the server space, Unix won overwhelmingly.

(iv) Microsoft are a marketing company, not a technology company. Most
people use Windows because they know no better.

I've no quarrel with (i)-(iii) with 2 small caveats:

a. I thought we were (still) in the context of Dave Lang in front of
his laptop (and I'm not going to buy him a tablet!)
b. most office workers I know/see still seem at present to use some
mix of Windows/Office (but I don't know where that might go with eg
Chrome)


--
Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

"David Lang" wrote in message
...
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean up,
defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price of
it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?

Defrag it yourself.
Download and run free:
Superantispyware.
Malwarebytes.

In article , Robin
scribeth thus
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Well you manage to appear stupid with effortless ease. Probably a
windows zealot...

Why don't you spend your time and energy addressing whatever market
failures have stopped Linux taking a larger share of the desktop
market - especially the consumer desktop market - despite manifest
advantages such as price? As it is this is yet another thread which
seems to me to support the (in)famous comment:

"The biggest killer of putting penguin software on the desktop was the
Linux community. If you think the Apple fanboys are completely barking,
they are role models of sanity to the loudmouthed Open Sauce religious
loonies who are out there."

https://web.archive.org/web/20131222.../software/linu
xs-chance-has-gone

And AIUI you couldn't just install any old Linux distro and use Netflix
until last autumn. If so, how was that a system fit for the consumer
market?




I suspect that as most PC's are supplied by retail shops, and of course
the industrial users can be supplied by anyone the suppliers won't get
that much profit out of a freebie operating system nor will they make
much from Open office or Libre office etc....



FWIW tried Linux and it was OK, and use WIN 7 and its also OK and does
what I need of it, so no real reason/s to change.

However I do need to make up another PC from some spare bits around and
if Linux can do what's needed then we'll see how that goes but that
particular standalone PC will be in an office populated by people using
WINders;!...
--
Tony Sayer

In message , Davey
writes
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:17:11 +0100
Bill wrote:

And I bought a Humax PVR in a local PCWorld closing down sale.

Bad idea to start with.

Yes, but it was a very good price. I found a forum and asked, and it
appears to be working "as designed". It did have old firmware, but I've
updated to the current version.

What an amazing design.

It has the same red LED for OFF and for Recording, so there is no way
of knowing what it is doing.

The answer to this is to install the optional Firmware, which enables
all sorts of useful things on your Humax. Start he
http://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Main_Page

That is
a) the sort of typical response of a Linux user. "If you replace the
basic system with this one written by someone even more unknown it will
start to work". SWMBO regularly asks me "How come thick people seem to
have no trouble installing insert unit and you are making such a
fuss?". I have no answer.
b) possibly very useful, thank you. Mine is a 2000T, and that seems to
apply to a FoxT2, whatever that is.

I still wonder at the thought processes of a manufacturer who designs
something with the red light for "off" and the same red light for
"recording".

On Dave's original problem, I would have pointed him to msconfig and the
start options as others have done, and suggested he then waits a month
or two, then looks at updating to Windows 10.
--
Bill

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:15:55 +0100
Bill wrote:

That is
a) the sort of typical response of a Linux user. "If you replace the
basic system with this one written by someone even more unknown it
will start to work".

I don't know about this being typical of Linux users, but it works in
this case. Humax seem to stop while developing their software just
before they have made it really good. The Customised Firmware (CF) makes
the world of difference to its abilities. The supplied software works as
is, the CF makes it better.

SWMBO regularly asks me "How come thick people
seem to have no trouble installing insert unit and you are making
such a fuss?". I have no answer.

I have sympathy for your long-suffering wife!

b) possibly very useful, thank you. Mine is a 2000T, and that seems
to apply to a FoxT2, whatever that is.

A FoxT2 probably has 'FoxT2' written on it somewhere. I would not be
certain that it was the same as a 2000T, although it might be. The
forum I referred you to would tell you. The CF is very
product-specific, as each Humax is different.

I still wonder at the thought processes of a manufacturer who designs
something with the red light for "off" and the same red light for
"recording".

The CF can fix that for you.
It's no worse than using the 'Start' button to shut the computer down.
Oh, that's a Windows idea, isn't it?

--
Davey.

On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


I gave up reading all the posts half way through the "Linus" thread so
someone else may have already said this.

I would suggest running ccleaner, particularly the "cleaner" and the
"registry cleaner" options, and malwarebytes.

Both free, both reliable IMHO. The usual caveat applies when downloading
to watch that you don't inadvertently click to download other stuff, and
you don't agree to use Ask or to change your default search engine.

On 30/07/2015 09:11, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , David Lang
wrote:

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.

Ha ha ha ha ha etc etc.

Sorry Dave, shouldn't laugh, but you and others like you seem to waste
unbelievable amounts of time (and therefore money) "fixing" Windows
when you could just buy a Mac and never look back.

I think my sig is particularly apt today.


My mind is going. I can feel it.

:-)

"newshound" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


I gave up reading all the posts half way through the "Linus" thread so
someone else may have already said this.

I would suggest running ccleaner, particularly the "cleaner" and the
"registry cleaner" options, and malwarebytes.

Both free, both reliable IMHO. The usual caveat applies when downloading
to watch that you don't inadvertently click to download other stuff, and
you don't agree to use Ask or to change your default search engine.

I think that he said that he has used Ccleaner and it made a big difference.
Up there somewhere with the Linux ****e.

On 30/07/2015 11:09, Huge wrote:

(ii) The war is over; Unix (and its relatives) won. Android is Unix.

Rubbish, Unix is a protected memory OS, android isn't, the CPUs it runs
on can't even manage virtual memory in a meaningful way.

iOS
is Unix.

Some of it is but not the stuff that runs on phones.


Blackberry is Unix (and dying itself, sadly). Windows Phone is
nowhere.

(iii) In the server space, Unix won overwhelmingly.

Because its good unlike android and ios.


(iv) Microsoft are a marketing company, not a technology company. Most
people use Windows because they know no better.


Most people use windows because they can use windows.
They can't use linux on a desktop as the support isn't there for them to
use it. Most people don't have a clue about computers and that doesn't
mix with linux.

If the linux crowd ever actually wake up to that fact they might try and
make a version of linux that most people can use but don't hold your breath.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:56:38 +0100, David Lang wrote:

On 30/07/2015 00:48, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100 David Lang
wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100 David Lang
wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I can't
get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the extra
space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a Linux
machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?

And I thank you for trying.

It may not be that difficult if you know your subject but to the layman
its gibberish :-)

As an ex working magician I could describe a trick as using an Elmsley
Count, an Ascanio Spread and a Tenkai Palm. Another magician would
immediately know what I was on about.

Can I suggest something else. One son is a techie, the other is a
Luddite. The latter one complained of his laptop being really slow - and
it was.

On dismantling it to fix something he'd broken, I found a solid lump of
fluff/dirt across the fan vent. The CPU had been clocking itself down to
avoid overheating. (he used to leave it running/charging on his bed)

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:11:34 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , David Lang
wrote:

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.

Ha ha ha ha ha etc etc.

Sorry Dave, shouldn't laugh, but you and others like you seem to waste
unbelievable amounts of time (and therefore money) "fixing" Windows when
you could just buy a Mac and never look back.

I think my sig is particularly apt today.

What, the missing one?