Talk about timing
It seems like it was a good thing that I backed up my harddrive the other night. ^^;; Last night, Shukaku started making the most awful and loud grinding noises. I wasn't even doing anything much, just having Firefox, AIM, and AOL (hush, everyone knows by now that I'm stuck on dial-up because I can't leech wireless from the neighbors) running. I didn't even have that many tabs open in Firefox. But the grinding noise was really loud and the palmrest area on the right side of the touchpad started to get really hot. Actually, my whole laptop got hot even though I have a chillpad.
I tried closing everything and restarting, hoping that would fix things, but it didn't. =__=;; I ended up shutting down Shukaku around midnight to let him rest.
So today when I booted Shukaku up, things seemed to be normal -- or as normal as an aging laptop can be. After checking my email and stuff, I decided to just do a cleanup of Shukaku. Hopefully that will help things. I ran CCleaner to free up a bit of space and fix any registry problems, then I did a defrag. Those took forever. x__X Now Shukaku is turned off again to rest, and I probably won't use him again until later tonight.
Now I'm on the home comp, which isn't bad, just annoying. I suppose this is good though, because the home comp needs a bunch of updates, so I don't mind having it online for the evening to do downloads. Maybe after the necessary things, I can finally get Firefox 3 on here (the one running now is 2.0), and update AIM and stuff.
Blaaargh.
I'd be happier if the internet would connect faster though.
I tried closing everything and restarting, hoping that would fix things, but it didn't. =__=;; I ended up shutting down Shukaku around midnight to let him rest.
So today when I booted Shukaku up, things seemed to be normal -- or as normal as an aging laptop can be. After checking my email and stuff, I decided to just do a cleanup of Shukaku. Hopefully that will help things. I ran CCleaner to free up a bit of space and fix any registry problems, then I did a defrag. Those took forever. x__X Now Shukaku is turned off again to rest, and I probably won't use him again until later tonight.
Now I'm on the home comp, which isn't bad, just annoying. I suppose this is good though, because the home comp needs a bunch of updates, so I don't mind having it online for the evening to do downloads. Maybe after the necessary things, I can finally get Firefox 3 on here (the one running now is 2.0), and update AIM and stuff.
Blaaargh.
I'd be happier if the internet would connect faster though.