{"id":1213,"date":"2005-09-08T11:37:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/09\/08\/computing-problems\/"},"modified":"2005-09-08T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T15:37:32","slug":"computing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/09\/08\/computing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1093'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had problems with my Windows XP machine for the last little while. and it seems like (although they are small) they keep popping up just when I&#8217;ve fixed the last one.  Today&#8217;s is that the startup routine now takes two to three times longer than it used to, just two days ago.  And there&#8217;s a lot of disk use going on there.  I&#8217;ve run the spyware and virus stuff with all applicable updates, but nothing.  In fact, the only change I made to the computer was to update the spyware and virus software.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only had this thing for two and a half years, but I wonder if it&#8217;s time to take the plunge and buy the powerbook.  It&#8217;s annoying, because I got four years out of my last computer, and I was hoping to eke out a few more months at least.  And it makes me afraid to work on my work, because who&#8217;s to know if the machine is on the verge of konking out and losing what I&#8217;ve done.  (And, yes, I do backup my Docs folder, along with e-mail boxes and browser bookmarks.)<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?  Is it prematurely dying?  Time to switch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had problems with my Windows XP machine for the last little while. and it seems like (although they are small) they keep popping up just when I&#8217;ve fixed the last one. Today&#8217;s is that the startup routine now takes two to three times longer than it used to, just two days ago. And there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day2day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}