Windows Vista Instability Issues
I find myself plagued by instability issues with Windows Vista yesterday with my mouse staggering all over my screen as if some CPU or memory is over-utilized and it can’t track the mouse properly. It works fine on another computer and after I did a fresh reboot, but gradually started having sputtering and staggering after an hour or so of my computer being run. To make matters worse last night my sound completely stopped working, I was listening to music and one minute I mute and then unmute my winamp and before I know it my sound doesn’t work at all.
What is odder is when I try to click play in WinAmp, Maestro, Pandora or any program that plays sound, nothing happens like the audio card refuses to even allow it to play. This is the most bizarre behavior I have ever seen, and I updated my Soundblaster X-FI drivers last night and rebooted, I still have to test today to see if the problem is resolved.
I upgraded to 3GB of RAM recently but my problem probably stems from having virtually no hard drive space left, I am down to the last 9 GB of space and fluxuate rapidly with lower amounts as my 200GB hard drive crashed last year leaving me with a fraction of my hard drive space. I am saving up my blog money to by a Solid State Drive, instead of a cheaper drive with higher capacity. For loading applications and writing cache which browsers do, you want an SSD drive for maximum performance.
In the meantime when I get my SSD Drive I will completely re-image my laptop and should help with performance, until then I trudge along.
-Dragon Blogger
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I switched to a Mac about two years ago and have never once been sorry. My hubby is a computer guru and even with that the PC's in the house are constantly not working right, running slow, crashing, etc. I couldn't stand it anymore on mine and I didn't want to go to Vista so I switched to Mac. It's like a dream.
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