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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Wilf Staton | Posted under Computer
Windows-XP and Grumpy Old Men
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You boot up your PC “found new hardware" you are told. What new hardware? Windows has found one but it doesn't want to tell you what it is. Clairvoyant is what you are supposes to be. It then goes off and produces a window that asks you whether you want to wander off into the internet cloud to find some software for this hardware that has no name or do your own thing locally. Then it tells you that it can't find any software for this mythical hardware so will not install it and still hasn't told you what it is. What happens now, it asked you if you want to go back and try again. Then it asks whether you want to select it from a list of devices. Hellooooo! You haven't told me what it is Windows XP how am I going to do that? So you finally give up and click on finish! What! It then pops up the same window again asking you to do the same thing. So in desperation you hit the cancel button. Then it more or less calls you a silly old thing because it could not install this hardware and that you will have real problems as it was not installed properly. Your windows PC gets slower and slower as time goes by. It gets worse than us grumpy old men at times refusing to give up what you ask for as you sit waiting for it to give up the goods. Does it tell you what is ailing it, no it just meanders along sometimes giving up pearls of wisdom like “I can't do that" Oh where can I find a simple sweet Windows XP fixer. This even extends to browsers running under windows XP. Firefox keeps telling me that I have loaded a website that needs some active X component but doesn't tell you what it is. When you tell it to go off and find it, it wanders off into the Internet cloud and then comes back and says it can't find it. It like windows XP it also continues to refuse to tell you what it is. Sometimes Windows XP offers to let you go off to the Microsoft help site and find information that will help you to fix a problem. When you do, you end up skiing through this labyrinth of links going round and round in circles trying to answer questions you don't understand until you finally give up get the port out and go to bed. Maybe I will wake up in a better mood tomorrow. About The Author: Wilf Gerrard-Staton is a retired computer systems specialist having worked for a number of years for large companies. He now builds blogs on specialist subjects. You will find free information on Technical issues and how to fix windows problems Windows XP problems visit the most informative source on the web. He also runs a profitable online home business. For free reports, articles and software on how to start work from Home business. |
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