Just a quickie...

Well, here's the results from my PC "overhaul"...

1. Checked my memory to see if there's any badness. None. All fine.

2. Keyboard and mouse are still being terrifyingly bad at their jobs. Interestingly this thread outlines my issues. Repeated keystrokes and "forgetting" keys.

3. Bluescreens - I always seem to get them when looking at YouTube. It may be a driver issue and I've found out there's a Driver Verifier though sounds like I need to be a tech head to try it.

4. Mouse - the pointer still jumps about, though it's sometimes in relation to the hard drive access. Not sure what the issue is there. I get the feeling HP don't make very good wireless and mouse peripherals.

5. Installed Firefox, Adblock, FireFTP - so some issues solved there with a different browser choice. Will use Explorer less and less and it'll be interesting to see if the issue I have with BSOD in YouTube will happen again. (MmmmmDRIVER_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL). A driver sounds like it's causing pain, though I haven't a clue which driver to sort out.

6. Checked graphics drivers - installed one hotfix and not much else. I have latest graphics drivers for this machine as I had a notion that maybe the graphics card was making the mouse pointer jump about.

7. Vista's slow DVD burning - solved by "purchasing Nero" as quoted by The Tech Guys. Why the fuck should I buy something for £59(!) when I already have bought an OS which should do this properly for me?

Well?

The jury is still out. It's frightening that this very computer is being advertised on bus stops for mugs like me to buy into. I get the feeling that there might be something I'm missing with this. There's so much stuff that if something goes wrong, then something else could go wrong and then a knock-on effect will happen. There's still more to do...

8. Chuck on a wired (non-HP!) keyboard and mouse and see if there's any difference. If so, I may have to purchase my own non-HP keyboard and mouse combo. Probably not wireless, as I consider it witchcraft.

9. Scandisk this bugger. Just in case, although scandisk won't do it's thing while the drive is in use. Hahaha!

10. Try and get the USB Camera fixed. It worked fine with Skype's preview, but now I get a frustrating pink screen. The microphones work though.

11. (Last resort) - Get The Tech Guys to send round - what else? - a Tech Guy! He can try and fix my machine while I slurp tea and silently curse myself for my ill-advised purchase.

12. (Last last resort) - Phone up The Tech Guys/PC World and get a refund for this atrocity.

13. Go into the woods to avoid technology altogether. Grow a huge beard. Get a shotgun.