On 22/03/2012 2:30 AM, Gary wrote:
> Krypsis wrote:
>>
>> On 21/03/2012 8:42 AM, notbob wrote:
>>> On 2012-03-20, > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Be careful of your attributions. I did not write what
>>>> you attributed to me in the above quote, the
>>>> person writing as "helpful Person" wrote it.
>>>
>>> Couldn't prove it by me.
>>>
>>> M$ Windows has been mucking up quotes and attributions for so long,
>>> hard to tell who said what when/where. It's obvious Windows users
>>> don't give a damn if their crappy newsreader client improperly
>>> attribute quotes or doesn't bother at all, so why should I. You want
>>> ppl to accurately attribute what you said, get a newsreader client
>>> that's not a piece of garbage. No offense.
>>>
>>> nb
>>>
>> You should "bother" if only to provide an example to those who don't.
>> Most Windows users are marginally computer literate so use only what is
>> supplied as default with their installation of Windows. That is why
>> there is such a mass proliferation of Internet Explorer and Outlook
>> Express users on the internet. These people simply do not know of the
>> problems they cause nor do they, in most cases, have a clue what to do
>> about it. They just want to use the internet, not become techheads. For
>> many, installing a program is fraught with difficulty. Don't expect them
>> to delve into the bowels of their default browser or email/usenet client
>> to adjust settings much less install a decent version. These are the
>> people who provide employment for a raft of Windows "experts" but they
>> only seek assistance when things go horribly wrong.
>>
>> Get used to them, they are out there and, what's worse, they are breeding!
>
> This is so true! Many ppl with problems, I'll tell them to do this or
> download and install that and they don't have a clue as to what I'm talking
> about. I've helped several over the years by going over to their house and
> doing it myself.
>
> Gary

One of the simplest cures to computer slowdown that I have had occasion
to use was to simply flush the browser cache. So many people complain
that their computer has become so slow on the internet that it is almost
unusable and all that was wrong was their cache was so huge that it took
longer to search through it than it would have been to simply go out
onto the net and get a fresh copy of the webpage. Easy cure, press the
flush button then reduce the size of the cache to something reasonable
like 10 meg or so.
Most browsers these days seem to use a percentage of hard disk capacity
and, in this era of huge drives, that seems to be 1024 megabytes. That's
way too big for a cache that will contain millions of small web files.


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Krypsis