....do you move your mouse to the left/right/bottom of your screen so the dock will pop up? [img]redface.gif[/img]
or by hitting the "x" in the top corner, you're shutting down the program, not just the window?
i've completely forgotten how to use the "start" program menu. i always go into my bf's shared files folder and i can never find his programs. and i don't think his computer likes me. when ever i go and do something with it, it freezes or crashes. i think i just ask it to do too much (which isn't much. like, open winamp and explorer at the same time.) and his computer isn't old/slow either. *sigh* he's getting a powerbook soon though.
Phil
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That's funny, I think my wife's PC doesn't like me either. I'm very adept with PCs and, for some reason, her computer just doesn't like doing more than a couple of things at a time. Oh yes, you shouldn't open IE and Winamp at the same time, especially if Eudora is about to check for email; big blue screen!
I sit in my computer room, working away, checking email, surfing, playing iTunes, all at the same time, and I hear her say some sort of expletive*, and it usually means her computer has crashed.
She'll be getting an iMac, eventually.
James
* expeltive: A profane or obscene term: blasphemy, curse, epithet, oath, swearword. Informal : cuss. (From Sherlock)
I suspect that all of us who have used a PC in the past know what an expletive is!
The English language is SO VERY descriptive, after all.
Perhaps that is why we here have all switched to Macs!
I find myself swearing at my computer once a year, instead of once a day!
LOVE my Pismo!!!
HATED my last company supplied PC laptop! Didn't much like the five or so others that came before it either! In fact, one of them was so errant that it accidentally fell out of a moving helicopter. Too bad...so sad. New computer....happy again! Sort of.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by james_squared: ... her computer just doesn't like doing more than a couple of things at a time. Oh yes, you shouldn't open IE and Winamp at the same time, especially if Eudora is about to check for email; big blue screen!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
At work my friend's XP machine loves lots of apps. open at the same time (6 or 7 I usually see). IE, Winamp, Outlook Exchange(?), Messenger, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, mIRC. Then again it is a P4 2.2 Ghz, with a 64MB GF4, and a Gig of RAM. It's a stylish dark-grey/ black Dell --- it's so solid I wish I had one, along side my Mac.
Griller wrote:
"At work my friend's XP machine loves lots of apps. open at the same time (6 or 7 I usually see). IE, Winamp, Outlook Exchange(?), Messenger, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, mIRC. Then again it is a P4 2.2 Ghz, with a 64MB GF4, and a Gig of RAM. It's a stylish dark-grey/ black Dell --- it's so solid I wish I had one, along side my Mac."
I've got a similar Dell (I'm actually typing on it right now) and it's been a solid machine. I've had more problems (at least with the operating system) with my PowerBook than with my Dell.
The new Dell cases are nice, actually. They're a snap to open and you hardly need any tools once you're in the case. Plus, all of the cases have a headphone jack and USB ports at the front of the computer, and some even have a firewire port or two. I still think the PowerMac cases are better in terms of aesthetics, but Dell's not bad.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jfpoole:
... I still think the PowerMac cases are better in terms of aesthetics, but Dell's not bad.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
For sure, the Mac cases (note: case not "box") and design cues are way better.
Side-opening case -- That's awesome.
2 USB ports on the keyboard -- Coool!
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