Computer bogging down?
By alamode
@alamode (3071)
United States
February 8, 2008 7:14am CST
February 11 is Clean Out Your Computer Day! I've gotten the jump on it, and have been working on mine for three days... its amazing how many things I thought were important enough to save! So I've been dumping, deleting, and burning discs... saving many of my photos in photobucket.com instead of on my 'puter... and defragging, running spybot, etc. I'm looking forward to having my zippy little system back where it was!
Oh, Feb. 11 is also Make a New Friend Day...
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@aquajules4 (583)
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8 Feb 08
Thanks for that, Gives me an excuse for chilling out on my pc.
It's amazing what you get special days for now. I think some of them are a bit bizarre though.
I will also make a new friend on that day.
@alamode (3071)
• United States
8 Feb 08
These are the special days just in February...
Freedom Day
Chocolate Festival (Oklahoma)
Inspire Your Employees To Excellence Day
St. Brigid's Day
Groundhog Day
Mardi Gras Festival (Georgia)
Candlemas
Kiwifruit Day (California)
Purification Day
Dia De La Candelaria (Mexico)
Carnival (Brazil)
Super Sunday
Carrot Cake Day
Artist Day
Wedding Ring Day
Carnival
Setsubun (Japan)
Diabetes Sunday
Halfway Point Of Winter
Homemade Soup Day
Thank A Mailperson Day
Lundi Gras (Louisiana)
Independence Day (Sri Lanka)
Mardi Gras
Primrose Day
Chocolate Fondue Day
Shrove Tuesday
Weatherperson's Day
Lent
Ash Wednesday
Pay A Compliment Day
Reggae Day
Bird Festival (California)
Chinese New Year
Send A Card To A Friend Day
No Talk Day
Run For Your Life Day
Tet Nguyen Dan
Ballet Day
Smile Day
Laugh And Grow Rich Day
Kite Flying Day
Boy Scout Day
Rebel Day
Chocolate Festival (Montana)
Pizza Pie Day
Weather Day
Toothache Day
Umbrella Day
World Marriage Day
Clean Out Your Computer Day
Vasant Panchami
Make A New Friend Day
Thomas Edison Day
Grandmother Achievement Day
Inventor's Day
Chocolate Day
Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
I Value Our Friendship Day
Dream Of Your Sweetheart Day
Final Warning Day
Valentine's Day
Hug Day
Heart To Heart Day
Have A Heart Day
Valentine's Day Weekend
Ferris Wheel Day
Valentine's Day Weekend (Georgia)
Thanks For A Great Valentine's Day
Burger Lovers Day
Gumdrop Day
Jewelry Day
Arbor Day (Georgia)
Flag Day (Canada)
Second Honeymoon Weekend
Presidents' Day
Thumb Appreciation Day
Pluto Day
Temporary Insanity Day
Chocolate Mint Day
Solar System Day
Love Your Pet Day
Cherry Pie Day
Lantern Festival
Card Reading Day
Directory Day
Teddy Bear Day
World Thinking Day
Popcorn Day
George Washington Day
Banana Bread Day
Tennis Day
Iwo Jima Day
Obnoxious Day
Calendar Day
Children's Day
Flag Day (Mexico)
Cuddle Day
Opera Day
Polar Bear Day
Leap Day
I can't believe I almost missed Chocolate Day, on Feb 12th. I must send my cards to everyone!!
http://www.123greetings.com/events/
has all the special days, month by month... its great that we can have a holiday every day!
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@Loen210 (1540)
• United States
8 Feb 08
Oh, and FYI, February is the month of:
National Pet Dental month.
It was actually also (before I knew) starting to really get worried about my cats' teeth, of the importance to clean them. Went to store and bought them pet toothbrushes and toothpaste. Obviously won't be easy to get them into it though. Wish me luck! :o)
@shootergirl78 (426)
• Canada
8 Feb 08
oh my goodness ~ there sure are alot of "days" in february. Some of them are good eating days too. WHOOT!!
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
8 Feb 08
I've got Virgo rising and I've read that Virgo is the sign the 'cleans out from under the fridge'. Hehehe... so cleaning out my computer is actually one of my favorite activities. I often will be up all night sorting and deleting and re-filing, etc. But one thing that I have been procrastinating on is backing up all my music with a hard copy. My daughter even gave me a bunch of cds for that purpose. So now I know when I'm going to do it... on Feb 11!! Thank you for the inspiration!
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
9 Feb 08
I'm not the most organized person, but between keeping my 'puter up to snuff and running a myspace group page, I'm learning to prioritize. I hope this will translate to my craft and sewing room soon... keeping things straight in the real world is much more work!LOL!
@alamode (3071)
• United States
10 Feb 08
D4mn... every time I try to answer this, I need a peace break!! I hope he's just too young to realize the error of his ways... some of US live in a perpetual state, as well!LOL! And I thot that the name of that period of time that guarantees the goodies for Valentine's Day was called 'the other 364 days'!?!
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
9 Feb 08
Hey alamode... you forgot the 'Valentines' day for women to show their appreciation for men, it falls on March 20th and is called "Steak, bl0w job, and shut the phuck up day". It falls in March so that in February they will try harder to please us women with expensive gifts etc., in the hopes that we will go all out on their 'special' day! Hehehe. Works for me!
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
8 Feb 08
I really need to clean off my pc as well. Can you tell me a little more about photobucket? Is it safe to store images on there or do you take the chance of having them deleted? Also can other ppl view them or is it completely private? I'd love to find a place to store some of my things but I worry about losing them.
I have a 120 GB and I'm down to 11GB so I really need to clean mine up.
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
8 Feb 08
I haven't made a private album, but I know that you can. I believe they only delete if they're VERY naughty... and on public view. I've done backup on cds just in case, and I do have the originals in a box in my office.
I'm afraid to find out how much I've used!LOL!
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@whittby (3072)
• United States
8 Feb 08
Okay, the least I can do is put the photos on here on disc. I think I started putting some photos on yahoo way back when - I should check on that too. This is a fairly new computer so don't have much on it. I had to do the housekeeping on the old one not too long ago when we left it with a kid at college. A good reminder to do this more often.
Oh, and it's make a new friend day. Will definitely add someone on here! Hmm, and the alternative would be to go out trawling the neighborhood! Ewww..whit
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
9 Feb 08
My old computer is about 1/2 byte away from being frozen up! I had trouble with everything on that one... and thats where our business records are stored! And of course I can only use floppies, so I need to first find some that I can use to clean that one... I may need to add an external storage unit to that one!
Backup is the most important thing I thought I was doing on my NEW computer... but it messed up my VISTA, because VISTA doesn't need to be backed up! That has been the biggest problem I've found with it... otherwise, this new computer, paired with Comcast, is the bomb! Backup will fill your 'restore' file and you can't get rid of it, so if it tells you to back up your files, don't do it!
@alamode (3071)
• United States
9 Feb 08
The smallest thing I do for storage problems is to go into my photo shop and resize my photos... I can convert them to tiny gifs, and they take up very little space. I have a sticker on my monitor that says 'RESIZE', so I don't forget to fix them when I want to use them!
@alamode (3071)
• United States
10 Feb 08
Mine seem to do fine, but I don't make them microscopic. Taking a pic to 2", down from 4", cuts that file in half. I haven't used pixel count, but that may work even better????? I know that all bitmaps need to be made into gifs or jpegs... bitmaps are WAY too huge!
@Loen210 (1540)
• United States
9 Feb 08
But if you make them smaller in gif form, in the futre, if you want to make a bigger print or so, you would have lost the large size, right?
I know, most of my pics show up on computer as big as like poster form, which is not needed, but takes so long to make them each smaller. And also always contemplating if I nmight want them blown up in future.
Am I right that when you shrink them to small er size, they are permanently small?
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@shootergirl78 (426)
• Canada
8 Feb 08
Wow, I didnt know there was a day for this lol. Thanks for sharing. I just got a new computer for Christmas and there is nothing on it. However the desktop is full so I might have to use the day to my advantage and tell hubby that I can't do nothing but clean off the computer, February 11th is the day that i must do it LOL. I'm sure he'll love it :)
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@shootergirl78 (426)
• Canada
8 Feb 08
hahaha, that's too funny. yeah he had friends over for superbowl so I should have a little party for cleaning the computer. Oh too funny!
MMMMMMMM chocolate day, that means I can eat it and not feel guilty about it. Oh how I love these days LOL
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@GardenGerty (157750)
• United States
9 Feb 08
I may do that tomorrow. It sounds like a great thing to be doing at the beginning of the year. Love your computer, clean it out.
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@missjackie (1358)
• Ypsilanti, Michigan
8 Feb 08
Thanks for the reminder! Normally, once a month, I'll back up all my information onto blank dvd's and then run a virus scan, spy bot scan, and an adware scan. It's frustrating that it has to be this way, but what else can you do?
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
9 Feb 08
And defrag! And every day, I dump my temp files and cookies... I don't actually get cookies because my firewall is so good, but it never hurts to check. Thats so smart... stop problems before they start. Your 'puter will be happy for a long time... and what would we do without 'em?
