Originally posted by freestonew
[I am at another library just now and there is no problem I notice. the other library that I have trouble with, has older computers! They tell me that
even the old computers are recycled to use as the users keep and keep growing. They might now have 50 to 70 computers and sometimes there is an hour,
or more, wait time to use one of them!
It may be that the people at the place where very slow, is every bit as much a case of no systems maintenance and spyware sweeps etc.
I know libraries are never the best spec puters, public money and all that, 'puters need scandisk run once in a while as well as frequent defragging
and AV and antispyware bots in place.
Sounds like the 'puters in the slow place get a lot of use so a lot of fragmentation and a lot of internet cache and track objects in the systems
will be building up as well, the net objects stored to disk and cookies etc, may need flushing.
This may help a bit....
www.scribd.com...
'Puters don't look after themselves although many people seem to think they do! Lol!
Bloody dial up, ay, yeah, i remember, unfortunately.
Yep, use a more basic browser, Maxathon, Avant Browser are just two which are decent.
Firefox is fine but i prefer the UI of the others, Deepnet Explorer is very secure, has the same anti phish soft tech' as Opera browser also has now
but Deepnet keeps it simple where Opera is quite complex, so for low speed chips, low RAM and connection speed, one or all of those, Deepnet is better
for dialup as a secure browser for onoine transactions etc because it's 'functional' without processor hungry JAVA machines etc.
Also, Avant and Maxathon allows one to turn off everything but text, or just webpage graphics/audio and objects etc individually when needed in a drop
down menu or configured as preference from the options as standard use, this for reading forums and such, blog sites etc, with low spec and/or low
speed 'puters, very much faster regards page loading on 56k, Avant has a nice flash drive portable version for use anywhere greedy MS Explorer is
only available.
For some more info and for others wanting more info on maintenance.
www.scribd.com...
www.scribd.com...
Plenty of other good PC/Net stuff using search function as well as a lot of other interesting ebook material.
Paxus.
[edit on 26-6-2009 by DeltaPan]