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The laptop I got my niece is prettier than the one I got my mom. It gave me more trouble though. The touchpad works, but certain things like doing a two-finger tap for a right-click aren't supported. It also had some problem with the automatic Windows Updates; the CPU was very high all day long, which made doing anything else tedious and made me feel like being violent. I finally deleted the SoftwareDistribution folder, and restarted the updates from scratch. After it finished that, it started behaving well. It's fan does NOT run constantly, which is good.
Tonight I took my mom's new laptop over to her house, planning to start copying her files from her old computer to the laptop by means of her external hard-drive. The main folder where she keeps most of her files is 73 GB in size, which was way larger than I expected. I'm guessing it's from many videos she's recorded on her camera, and/or multiple duplicated sets of her photo files copied from her camera. But I discovered that her external hard-drive is no longer being recognized by her old computer, nor even the new laptop. I think it must have broken down. So there's a warning for you: keep more than one backup of your important files, and check every once in a while that the backup is still functional. At least her old computer is still working, so I don't think any files have been lost. I just need to make a new backup on some other device, as well as copying the files to the laptop.
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I feel so blah. There was nothing really special I wanted to do this winter vacation, and ergo nothing special that I did. I went to see the Star Wars movie today. So, I've seen it. That's that.
Life is full of bad things and blah. Maybe we're about to be in another war. Oh well, how sucky. People are poor and struggling to make it through each day. Sucky. I'm over my illness. Yay, I'm not sick. Blah blah blah. Everything is blah. Doctor Who is blah. Star Wars is blah. Cake and cookies are blah. And bombs and disease and pain. Yippee yay. Monday I go back to work, blah.
Tonight I took my mom's new laptop over to her house, planning to start copying her files from her old computer to the laptop by means of her external hard-drive. The main folder where she keeps most of her files is 73 GB in size, which was way larger than I expected. I'm guessing it's from many videos she's recorded on her camera, and/or multiple duplicated sets of her photo files copied from her camera. But I discovered that her external hard-drive is no longer being recognized by her old computer, nor even the new laptop. I think it must have broken down. So there's a warning for you: keep more than one backup of your important files, and check every once in a while that the backup is still functional. At least her old computer is still working, so I don't think any files have been lost. I just need to make a new backup on some other device, as well as copying the files to the laptop.
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I feel so blah. There was nothing really special I wanted to do this winter vacation, and ergo nothing special that I did. I went to see the Star Wars movie today. So, I've seen it. That's that.
Life is full of bad things and blah. Maybe we're about to be in another war. Oh well, how sucky. People are poor and struggling to make it through each day. Sucky. I'm over my illness. Yay, I'm not sick. Blah blah blah. Everything is blah. Doctor Who is blah. Star Wars is blah. Cake and cookies are blah. And bombs and disease and pain. Yippee yay. Monday I go back to work, blah.