New computer!

[shewhomust]

Bounce, bounce: new computer. It's the end of the financial year, and it looks as if the business can afford to buy us both new computers. durham_rambler has spent the last several days equipping mine with all necessary software and cards and stuff, and today I get to play with it, for the first time.

It's quieter than the old one - but then, the average banshee is quieter than the old one. And I haven't yet tried to do any of the things that overtaxed the old one (like opening PaintShop Pro and AceFTP simultaneously). We've set me up to use Mozilla for my e-mail instead of Outlook Express, and haven't quite domesticated it yet it wants to keep all my different addresses compartmentalised, which is pointless and annoying: samarcand, any idea how to stop it doing this?

Otherwise, all seems to be well. The only thing that's gone missing so far is my screensaver, which I can download again if I have to. The mouse kept sticking, so we've replaced the old one, and there's a funny little keyboard, which is living on borrowed time, but nothing irreversible.

And since, obviously, what I want to do at this stage is play around with it, we are off to London tomorrow for a long weekend. I'm looking forward to this, and plan to do all sorts of good things, but I want to stay home and play with my new toy, too!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I do indeed know how to stop it - Call up account settings for each account, click on Server Settings and then Advanced and then select Globalk Inbox. I actually like it all compartmentalised, but then it's for three people (Me, Candy and Ellen, although I have 3 email addresses, two have their own compartments, one goes into the Local Folders inbox.)

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

That was me - This was the first time I'd tried to use LJ on my new PC and I wasn't logged in. And I'm damned if I could remember what my login password was...

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

I want it on the record that I set up shewhomust's computer before I got a chance to play with mine, but it's now out of the box and running the anti-virus software (important things first!)

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

You are such a martyr!