COMPUTERS ARE THE DEVIL
sob okay. MY COMPUTER IS TURNING ON ME. SO I AM CALLING ON YOU FLIST TO HELP ME OUT. Or at least sympathize with me or something. It started a while ago when I began complained that "zomg firefox keeps freezing on me DDD<". BECAUSE IT DID. :| So I updated to the new version of firefox (v3) which made it WORSE. And after that I downloaded a neat little extension that Stelas suggested which did briefly help! But then it got worse again. So I downloaded an older version of firefox thinking "well maybe my computer is just OLD so i will live with browser freezing a little rather than a lot." GOT FED UP WITH THAT PRETTY QUICK.
Next I looked into new browsers and noticed Flock is basically Firefox, but not! So I got that, and then it got EVEN WORSE. Not only is the browser freezing now, so is everything else. Any animation I try to watch in the browser is jerky -- it sort of has tiny little skips every second or so. Usually it'll freeze the browser after a minute or two watching. The browser freezes A LOT. So does irc, sometimes the entire computer freezes. It can last a few seconds to a few minutes. Sometimes the windows switch at random on me. It is like my computer has seizures.
Since changing to flock and realizing it's THE COMPUTER I have done virus scans, defrags, and just now I tried to do a system restore to before I noticed the problems but none of the checkpoints I tried would work. They all came back saying "HAHA NO RESTORE FOR YOU" in computer talk. I have no idea what to do about this now. I mean, I am gonna spend tomorrow googling all the processes I spot running in my task manager to see if any of them is causing the problem, but I would REALLY REALLY REALLY love any other ideas that anyone might have. 'cause I am tired of having two tabs open and worrying about the fucking computer deciding to have some kind of spasm.
trufax: It froze like five times just while I was writing this post.
ETA OF OH YEAH: Computer is a PC running on Windows XP
Next I looked into new browsers and noticed Flock is basically Firefox, but not! So I got that, and then it got EVEN WORSE. Not only is the browser freezing now, so is everything else. Any animation I try to watch in the browser is jerky -- it sort of has tiny little skips every second or so. Usually it'll freeze the browser after a minute or two watching. The browser freezes A LOT. So does irc, sometimes the entire computer freezes. It can last a few seconds to a few minutes. Sometimes the windows switch at random on me. It is like my computer has seizures.
Since changing to flock and realizing it's THE COMPUTER I have done virus scans, defrags, and just now I tried to do a system restore to before I noticed the problems but none of the checkpoints I tried would work. They all came back saying "HAHA NO RESTORE FOR YOU" in computer talk. I have no idea what to do about this now. I mean, I am gonna spend tomorrow googling all the processes I spot running in my task manager to see if any of them is causing the problem, but I would REALLY REALLY REALLY love any other ideas that anyone might have. 'cause I am tired of having two tabs open and worrying about the fucking computer deciding to have some kind of spasm.
trufax: It froze like five times just while I was writing this post.
ETA OF OH YEAH: Computer is a PC running on Windows XP