Headachy day

[kribu]

Picked up my shiny new computer yesterday, so today was spent setting it up. Especially as I wasn't in the mood to go out - managed to stub my toe on the sofa yesterday, so it's all bloody and bruised. Not broken though from what I can tell, just hurts a bit if I try to put full weight on it.

Gah. All this installing and copying stuff is what I really hate about getting a new computer. On the plus side, after a lot of effort, I got my external hard drive working (never mind that it doesn't come up half the time after restarting), managed to import the old Outlook data file without issues, so I get to keep my old e-mails, and got Firefox bookmarks imported, too. On the minus side, it took me forever to figure out why the blasted thing was slow as a snail and kept freezing whenever I tried to do anything - finally got rid of BitDefender that came pre-installed and put in AVG antivirus again. It's free but it works, and after that, the new computer's been ... very, very nice.

And I am enjoying filling up the second hard drive. I'm somewhat glad I'm not a complete newbie though as while they'd installed the second drive, it was unallocated, so I had to go find it in disk management and format it to get it to show up. (And re-assign all drive letters while I was at it as the idea of having the second hard drive as the S-drive or something didn't sound appealing.)

And it's quiet. Blissfully quiet. The external hard drive - not overly noisy itself - is the only thing I hear, unless there's active copying going on, in which case I can hear the hard drive a bit too, but no airplane jet engine startup noise anymore.

Have only got the bare essentials installed so far though, so there's a lot of work yet to be done.

All this computer stuff (and dust flowing around) has given me a rather nasty headache. And I haven't written a word today (not really worried about it, but still). And I just watched Estonia getting beaten by Belgium in the World Cup qualifiers ... 3:2 doesn't look too bad as the result, I guess, especially for an away game, but Belgium really was so much stronger. Grrr.

Oddly enough I'm almost missing the laptop now. And I hated using it when I had to switch to it last week. *sheds a single tear*

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[kribu.livejournal.com]

None of the antivirus programs that want money from me has ever worked properly. They all tend to just want to take over everything and slow everything down. So while I've generally got a year's subscription to something like BitDefender or Norton or Kaspersky with a new computer, I've always ended up getting rid of it in favour of something else (mostly AVG) very quickly.

If it helps, I'll need to work again tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after, and... you get the point. ;-)