Comments on: It got worse; I doubt it’ll get better

By: People are strange « Motho ke motho ka botho

People are strange « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:41:55 +0000

[...] is the same person who, a year ago, dumped an overburdened but otherwise perfectly useful Duron and picked up a mid-grade dual-core running Vista — instead of properly managing the original [...]

By: A sheep in wolf’s clothing « Motho ke motho ka botho

A sheep in wolf’s clothing « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:03:44 +0000

[...] are a small company, and so as I’ve mentioned in the past, he generally does all the technical services himself, or asks one of his friends to come to the [...]

By: Windows Vista: We are not amused « Motho ke motho ka botho

Windows Vista: We are not amused « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:00:56 +0000

[...] paid to. I use it on a daily basis in my office, or at least I have for the last month, since the abused Duron spun out of control and crashed into the sidewall. In its place a gleaming new eMachines J4482 was [...]

By: Two and a half epilogues « Motho ke motho ka botho

Two and a half epilogues « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:55:55 +0000

[...] staff is pleased again, since this moves exceptionally faster than its crudware-infested precedent, but of course, since it came with Vista, it took a technician — a professional technician, [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:58:07 +0000

Talking about cost effective … My last boss had an option of

£30/machine (approx) for more ram or
£120/machine to reinstall Windows Xp

So guess which he went for?

On average the machines had 256Mb Ram so Xp took a while to install …

By: A desperate recommission « Motho ke motho ka botho

A desperate recommission « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:09:19 +0000

[...] that beleaguered desktop PC at work? The ~1.4Ghz machine that’s one-part office file server, one-part workstation and 90 percent malware? Well, in recent days its performance has fallen off so badly that it just [...]

By: anjilslaire

anjilslaire — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:55 +0000

Indeed, old PCs are usually cheap to resurrect hardware wise to give to needy users, as long as there’s no expense for software licenses.

BTW< Love the spectrum wallpaper! Running it now

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:17:14 +0000

I do a bit of work on computers for people. I see a lot of computers that either are getting old and have hardware failures OR Windows has taken over a computer and it barely runs. Usually the owner does not have the Windows OS disk to reinstall on the system OR the hardware is to old to warrant replacement by the owner. In both cases it all boils down to two words “cost effective.”

Then I end up with enough computer parts to ‘eventually’ cobble together a Frankenputer with Linux installed and give the stitched together computer to family or friends.

EXample of “cost effectiveness” in US dollars:

*Power Supply $40
*Hard drive $75
*Memory Module $40
*Windows OS $200

*New low-spec desktop computer $300 or netbook computer $400 + taxes

*(All prices local)

By: eksith

eksith — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:04:17 +0000

“He who brings it up, shall deal with it”
…Was pretty much the motto at our place, so I don’t blame you for not suggesting it.

Chances are, the registry is full of stuff that isn’t even being used. The slow boot time is a symptom. Also, there may be tons of services that are on by default. They could uninstall most of the unneeded utilities and run Registry Repair. That usually brings most Windows systems back to speed.

Either way, a free computer is always a good option.

By: Cae

Cae — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:17:28 +0000

Sam Weston, K.Mandla,

thanks for the link to “The Spectrum Of The Sky”