First CARDSCAN, then Outlook, become unresponsive. Eventually everything including TASKMANAGER does the same thing. Power Off. Argh!
XPfails – luggable – TYPE1 Box eventually becomes unresponsive
Sunday, January 21, 2007
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XPfails – luggable – EDITPRO fails and eventually locks the box
Thursday, January 18, 2007Kodak and Syncura didn’t uninstall right. Reinstall and uninstall?
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XPfails – luggable – WINDOZE developed Alzheimer’s
Wednesday, January 17, 2007It forgot where the internet was? Symptom nothing was resolving by name. Ping worked fine. DNS worked on other boxes. All that was left was a reboot. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – Reinstall, reboot, try again and again
Tuesday, January 16, 2007I guess the XP gnome — annoying creature that it is — decided that if I was really going to keep rebooting until I got wireless connectivity back to my home network, then it’d eventually relent and give it back. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – DELL’s wireless fails
Monday, January 15, 2007Luggable’s wireless stopped working. Argh! Wrassled witht he drivers. Uninstall, reinstall. NG! Latest drivers loop and drive cpu to 100%. Argh! Not working, System restore, still ng. Arghhh!
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XPfails – luggable – Outlook Lookout fails – Reminder left hanging
Wednesday, January 10, 2007Outlook gives me a reminder. Good. I click dismiss. Outlook transforms into LookOut and leaves a zero reminder hanging out. Eventually the performance degrades to unacceptable. Reboot. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK
Tuesday, January 2, 2007Outlook, aka LookOut, takes an error in a reminder. It hangs up. Eventually performance goes to zero. And MSWORD locks up. Arghhh! Reboot required. Lost time ~30 minutes to close up and restart. And, about 2 hours running at reduced throughput. Arghh!
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XPfails – luggable – WSOD is back
Sunday, December 31, 2006I was using NEO OBJECTS EIGHT to edit my web site for simplyaligned doe to emerge next month. The White Screen Of Death occurred with a short wait rebooted. Argh! I don’t now what I lost. I suspect I lost all the changes I had made, but not saved, to the new site.
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XPfails – luggable – PAYTRUST website won’t authenticate
Friday, December 29, 2006I actually had to call their support and undergo a lot of pain “authenticating”. Will someone please tell me how knowing my details authenticates me? Now, if they said “we’ll call you back”, then I might believe it. Asking me my address and phone number and email address doesn’t “authenticate” squat.
And, don’t tell me you are “doing it for my protection”! That’s Barbara Striesand. They’re doing it for their protection.
No explanation of why it worked yesterday but not today. No explanation of why it didn’t work today. They want me to use IE (I don’t!) Telling me that their site is not “optimized” for Firefox or Opera.
PFooey.
And, that they were voted the best bill payment service. By who, their employees.
The only reason, I put up with this … (PayMyBills was acquired by the competitor Paytrust after I selected PMB over PayT. Subsequently acquired by Quicken.) … is that they are the only service that will receive a paper bill, scan it, and email me. And, they keep pushing ebilling!
Their idea of ebilling is that I do all the work and setup an online account with a biller. Then turn over all that authentication information to them so that they can then go pretend that they are me. I don’t think so!
Any way, if there was a competitor, I’d sure consider it.
Arghh!
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XPfails – luggable – menus now invisible
Monday, December 25, 2006Argh! When you click on a menu like File or Tool, I have to run the mouse pointer down the menu to see all the choices. They are their buy just invisible. Once the pointer passes over them, they stay visible. A new for of microsoft security? I’ll reboot when I have time, but that’s a hassle. And, every once and awhile, I get a worse problem. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – mouse goes nuts!
Saturday, December 23, 2006For the last two days, the mouse has been screwed up. It would page down on its own. Wouldn’t double click. I reloaded the software for it several times. Rebooted innumerable times. Never figured out why, but it seems to be working now. Arghhh!
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XPfails – luggable – seems slow
Tuesday, November 21, 2006Will try a reboot.
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XPfails – luggable – WDSYNC mucks up
Friday, November 10, 2006In doing my weekly backup to my WDPASSPORT (Sams Club 44$ a while ago), it partially locked up the box. Hmmm. Reboot clears it. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – general slowdown
Thursday, November 9, 2006Last night, rather early this morning, luggable came down with a case of the blahs. It seemed like everything went at a crawl. I had tapped on a link in an email (LOOKOUT?) and the FOX took forever to get to it. So, being the bright IT Guru I am, I nuke everything in sight that I thought was expendable. No improvement. So I hit the big red easy button (ALT-CNT-DEL) and SHUTDOWN. For some reason there is a difference between SHUTDOWN and RESTART. SHUTDOWN, I guess, does a real start from scratch AOT a quick restart, no scratch. Back up and running.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK just beeps
Tuesday, November 7, 2006For some unknown reason, I had to reinstall BLOGDESK. I don’t appear to have lost anything. Hmmm?
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XPfails – luggable – slows to crawl
Friday, October 27, 2006LUGGABLE needed a reboot. It slowed to a crawl. FFOX2 appears to be the culprit with all applications entries not responding. Nuking everything in sight didn’t seem to help. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – PRINTERALL fails to pull data
Thursday, October 26, 2006Interesting … the PRINTERALL client doesn’t have ANY data in it. None at all. Hmmm, who to point the finger at?
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK snarfs 4 messages today
Tuesday, October 24, 2006OUTLOOK snarfed four messages today. No rhyme or reason. Copying the message to a new one and send worked fine. Just annoying.
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XPfails – luggable – RSSBANDIT fails
Tuesday, October 24, 2006RSSBANDIT failed in initiation. Stopping and starting didn’t help. Reviewing the task manger I couldn’t find anything to nuke. A reboot was required. The reboot process exposed a hidden window that was recorded as RSSBANDIT’s. I don’t know how one could find and nuke it without the restart. That seems like a design failure.
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XPfails – luggable – wsod
Tuesday, October 24, 2006The white screen of death hit at 1215. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Old Software “Serious Creativity”
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Interesting problem. Some old software from the WIN95 days won’t install on XP. I’ve been reinstalling it as I move from machine to machine. It has in the past. Why not now? It is particualarly agravating when I spend my scarce person technology dollars on something and it ages out. I can understand hardware failure, but software? Now I am sure they will sell me a replacement for 75$ but why should I. I bought it. Whatever it was! Last time I got screwed like this was KeeBoo. Oh well live and learn. BTW I sent them an email. Let’s see what happens.
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Reinke Faces Life 