Well that was easy; don’t know why I’ve been putting it off since August. Went to replace the drive in my neighbor’s pc and once I saw what was originally in there, I switched the Plexor I’d gotten for her with the Sony Lite-on that came with my barebones system because it was the same type of drive. Therefore, just a matter of hooking it up, waiting to see if Win XP would recognize it (since I don’t have a software disc I was planning on lying to Windows) and once it did, all was cool. This way there’s a lot less likely to go wrong if there’s no major changes, especially in software.
Now I don’t really need the Plexor drive because I just recently put in a new one into the pc I’m reworking, but I never liked it because it used the Nero software and that caused a problem. The Plexor used CD9 Creator and I’ve had better luck with that, which is one of the reasons it took me so long to find the right drive for my neighbor.
Her other problem, which she brought up as a very slow and sluggish e-mail system appears to be a bit more, extending to a total slug on all programs. Even defragging and cleanup didn’t fix so I was kind of wondering and checked while I was inside the case. Yep, only 256 Mb of Ram. Not enough for what she does with music and photo albums and stuff, plus Win XP and that octopus Norton A/V. So that’ll be the next thing I’ll be ordering I’m sure.
It just feels so good when everything goes right. Makes me a lot more willing to start in on building my own today.
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