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Feb. 8th, 2007 11:58 amOh look, I'm going to rant about computers again! Lucky you.
My new harddrive arrived yesterday, and I managed to install it with no problems. And then I had to install Windows. Which took forever, but finally did install. Except. All sorts of little things are weird. Most importantly, my screen resolution is wack, and I only have two options, neither of which fit a wide screen laptop. If anyone has a widescreen laptop (mine is a Compaq), what is your resolution set to? Because I think it would help if I could say, hey, where's this option. Also, scrolling of any sort is totally jumpy. And I don't have any options for standby or hibernate. It feels like there's piles of stuff missing from the programs menu, too, and I'm not talking about things that I downloaded. Just...stuff. Like the program that allows me to burn DVDs, which was there when I bought the computer.
Basically everything is weird and wrong, which is very irritating. I would be happy, though, if I could at least get the screen resolution fixed, so that everything would stop being oddly stretched.
Don't worry, I'm not asking for advice or help here - I am planning on spending another exciting Friday night on the phone with the support centre, seeing if they can do anything at all for me. But I really just needed to vent. Someone once said to me that they thought no-one should be allowed to own a computer if they couldn't fix it themselves, and I'm really starting to feel like I should just chuck mine and live without it, because it's just so much effort sometimes, especially considering I don't use it for anything complicated. Yargh.
My new harddrive arrived yesterday, and I managed to install it with no problems. And then I had to install Windows. Which took forever, but finally did install. Except. All sorts of little things are weird. Most importantly, my screen resolution is wack, and I only have two options, neither of which fit a wide screen laptop. If anyone has a widescreen laptop (mine is a Compaq), what is your resolution set to? Because I think it would help if I could say, hey, where's this option. Also, scrolling of any sort is totally jumpy. And I don't have any options for standby or hibernate. It feels like there's piles of stuff missing from the programs menu, too, and I'm not talking about things that I downloaded. Just...stuff. Like the program that allows me to burn DVDs, which was there when I bought the computer.
Basically everything is weird and wrong, which is very irritating. I would be happy, though, if I could at least get the screen resolution fixed, so that everything would stop being oddly stretched.
Don't worry, I'm not asking for advice or help here - I am planning on spending another exciting Friday night on the phone with the support centre, seeing if they can do anything at all for me. But I really just needed to vent. Someone once said to me that they thought no-one should be allowed to own a computer if they couldn't fix it themselves, and I'm really starting to feel like I should just chuck mine and live without it, because it's just so much effort sometimes, especially considering I don't use it for anything complicated. Yargh.