Glad gmail is working better now - might have been a temporary glitch on their side.
Suggestions about your PC? I agree you might wanna stick with XP for a while. When I finally upgraded to Win7 64-bit, there were quite a few programs I had to trash. Most of my programs still worked, but a few didn't. Plus, I had to trash a printer and some other hardware that didn't have Win7 drivers. I think the main prob is that I got the 64bit version - instead of the 32-bit, but 64-bit is where the future is heading so no point buying a 32 bit version. I was going to say that 2GB of ram should be fine for you... but then you mentioned you do a lot of graphic work and open lots of browser tabs. So... I do think adding some ram would help speed things up. Of course you know that a main reason for a slow computer is stuff running in the background. So go to Start, type MSCONFIG, click the Startup tab and take a look at how many programs have check marks next to them. Each one of these starts running at bootup, and uses up system resources. Uncheck any that you don't absolutely need running all the time (most can be manually started when you need them). Here's a website that will explain what each one does: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php Just type the program name into the search box. Donk On 6/13/2013 6:24 PM, Holly wrote: > Guess what, I left the computer for a while and gmail is working now. I > guess it wouldn't hurt if you gave me suggestions about my computer though > because it's been very slow lately. I do a lot of artwork and have a lot > of tabs open in Firefox and often two incidents of it with several tabs. > > Thanks for all your help, as always. > > Holly > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:26 PM, hklass <hkl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Donk, I'm responding to you on the site because I can't respond from my >> gmail account. >> >> To recap the situation, we were in the process of opening in Safe Mode to >> see if the Program list was available from there. I had asked how to open >> in Safe Mode and you responded to hit F8 until it opened. Then you >> responded about accessing from the Accessories folder which I couldn't do >> because I didn't have the list. >> >> Okay, this morning when I opened my computer I had the message asking if I >> wanted to open in Safe Mode or go to Restore. I decided to go Safe Mode to >> see if the list was there and it was. Then I went to restore from >> accessories on the list and restored back to June 4. The computer closed >> and then opened and, after a considerable wait, the list appeared. Happy >> Day. Okay, I started to do my usual and opened Firefox to check my gmail >> accounts and everything was super slow (actually it's been that way for a >> couple of days)and although I finally opened gmail and looked at my >> messages I haven't been able to reply. It says "Loading rich text" and >> shows Loading but nothing happens. I'm able to open my forums but can't >> reply to emails. >> >> I've been aware that I probably need more Ram since I currently have 2G >> and my computer will take 4G. Also my sound card is failing or has failed. >> If I could remember how to open the box I could probably take care of this >> but in the meantime I don't really want to be without the computer for any >> length of time. Sorry this is so long. I'm running XP and that's the >> reason I'm hanging on because so many of my programs won't run with the >> newer Windows versions. I usually get a new computer built every five >> years and it's at least six now. >> >> Okay, I have Trend Micro on my computer and a Spy program and the scans >> don't show anything wrong but do you think it's some failing on the >> computer itself >> >> Holly >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please >> feel free to contact me directly bi...@optonline.net Please do not post >> personal issues directly to the group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to >> a-1-computer_tech-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com >> >> Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly bi...@optonline.net Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to a-1-computer_tech-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: a-1-computer_tech-dig...@yahoogroups.com a-1-computer_tech-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: a-1-computer_tech-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
