23-02-2018, 11:09 AM
I was at a friend's palce recently and he had similar problems to Old sparky, except that it was sometimes necessary to pull the mains and start again. His machine runs W10. I did the obvious MSCONFIG checks to see that nothing excessive was starting at boot time. Much of the time his PC would run just fine, sometimes it all but locked up. Seemed to be worst when using Firefox (his preferred browser). Similar symptoms can have diverse causes. I was unable to help him further.
Andy, using IE definitely marks you out as awkward. I can't give chapter and verse but IE is very much a 3rd rate browser by today's standards. There is a choice of 3 modern mainstream browsers for PC - Firefox, Chrome and Edge. I use FF and Chrome occasionally. Safari is commonplace for Mac but not PC, other browsers are available.
Moving from Windows to Linux is a different question. i've thought about doing so myself and have played with Linux occasionally but havn't made the leap. I'm still on W7.
Andy, using IE definitely marks you out as awkward. I can't give chapter and verse but IE is very much a 3rd rate browser by today's standards. There is a choice of 3 modern mainstream browsers for PC - Firefox, Chrome and Edge. I use FF and Chrome occasionally. Safari is commonplace for Mac but not PC, other browsers are available.
Moving from Windows to Linux is a different question. i've thought about doing so myself and have played with Linux occasionally but havn't made the leap. I'm still on W7.
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