HELP

[boatman]

AN HI again Gary just while i think about it but sometimes when i go to look at a utube vid the pc starts makin a buzzin sound really loud as thats what happen to my last pc an it packed up completetly an had to be sent back to the makers to be put right but it dint last long when it came back so hence my new pc what ive got now an this new pc started doin this again last wk so i dont look at utube now but have you any ideas why this is happening ?
chris

[Gary MacKenzie]

youtube shouldn't make a modern pc sound any different to normal, but the adverts are notoriously loud or quiet compared to the video they are attached to.
can you give me a model number for the pc , and i will look and see what it has in it.
if you had said it was flash that was causing problems, i would have said the extra noise was from the graphics card.

[boatman]

youtube shouldn't make a modern pc sound any different to normal, but the adverts are notoriously loud or quiet compared to the video they are attached to.
can you give me a model number for the pc , and i will look and see what it has in it.
if you had said it was flash that was causing problems, i would have said the extra noise was from the graphics card.

HI Gary i have sent you a pm
chris

[monica]

CHEERS Monica i'll need the luck but i used to be on windows vista an it was ok but this new windows 10 well rubbish an this bloomin cortanna keeps popin onto my pc an takin it over an then i just shut the pc down an restart an then she is gone what a pest she is an last night for a couple of hrs i could not even get on the web as when i had my last updates come in the updates brought into the pc microsoftedge program an done away with my windows exlsporer progam an its now workin even slower an keeps at times jumpin around the screen goes up an down what a b*lls up AAAAARRRGGGGGHHH ANY WAY now as i did a bit of fiddlin about with it on programs as i dont understand half what i did last night i manged to get it to come on all ok again but i must admit i thoght of dave (gern) an JR solution to set fire to it as i was about to blow up AAAAAARRRGGGGHHH BUT SAVED IT IN THE NICK OF TIME
CHRIS

dorry to hear that,have a friend with win 10 and she says its so buggy .I even got that microsoftedge program, download and installed without me doing it
as well,I have always use firefox for years and don,t use the others I find it fine for what I,m doing,they say win10 is more like a smart phone layout,the only
thiing that interests me is the free better paint and maybe the 3d file viewing

[Gary MacKenzie]

Microsoft Edge is part of the operating system, ( it replaces internet explorer ) , like Safari is part of OSX on Apple Computers.
Edge is now basically a version of Chrome, it's based on chromium, and can happily use chrome plugins/addons etc.
I use Opera, Edge, Firefox, Chrome as we still have badly coded websites that will sometimes fail depending upon browser used.

The problem with the way we buy modern computers is that everything is set up for us, a few clicks once you login the first time and everything is there.
This is because everyone ( according to surveys ) want it that way, where many would be better off if the first screen asked which programs you wanted installed, or which you didn't.

[Guest]

The problem with the way we buy modern computers is that everything is set up for us, a few clicks once you login the first time and everything is there.
This is because everyone ( according to surveys ) want it that way, where many would be better off if the first screen asked which programs you wanted installed, or which you didn't.

I've always built my own rigs but have to agree, when I'm helping friends or family with a new machine the first thing I do is remove as much bloatware as possible.

I'm sure with modern PC's a few extra programs won't slow things down much like they used to, but the less distraction for the user the better I think.

[Guest]

I find, well you know what I'm going to say.

[stillp]

Chris, I'm surprised you got on well with Vista, most people didn't. Windows XP was a sound reliable version but is not supported any more. My company wouldn't have Vista (or Windows 2000) on any of their PCs. 7 was OK, 8 was awful, made barely usable by 8.1. I'm running Windows 10 both on my desktop PC and on my old Acer laptop, and don't have any trouble, except that on the rare occasions I use the laptop I have to download several Windows (and other) updates, or the poor thing is so slow it's almost unusable.
Pete

[Guest]

God I started with windows 95 !

[Gary MacKenzie]

dos, gem , windows 3 , os/2 , 3.11 , NT , 2000 , xp , xp x64, etc etc etc
Have used every version of windows so far , including ME , and all were fine if you set them up for yourself.

[stillp]

Yes John, 95 was pretty good. Had to upgrade to 98 to get USB support though!
Pete

[dave]

I think I go even further back than dos, first machine I had used cpm and 5.25 in floppy disks

[stillp]

When I started working for a US company in Swindon in 1989, they were still working with 8" floppy discs!
Pete

[Gary MacKenzie]

If we ignore pc's . i started with coding sheets , cards , and assigned run time slots to compile programs on a dec 2020 mainframe at college , and before that a spectrum 16k with tape drive ......
US and Canadian companies ( and BP Aberdeen and Shell St Fergus ) still used 8" floppys as they were secure, and few if anybody outside a big business would have access to them. Main storage was Reel to Reel tape https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...-Largetape.jpg and hard disk platters that were removeable in big plastic housings

[stillp]

Well, if we're talking ancient history, Fortran IV when I worked in a Tech College, then a lot of direct machine code programming while developing automotive electronics. A friend of mine had the UK concession for the Commodore PET, so I learned Basic pretty well. Took one into work to show to interested parties, and the apprentice training officer thought it was brilliant and wanted one foe the training centre, so I was called to a meeting with the Directors and the Head of the Computer Department (an IBM mainframe with its staff of about a dozen servants, in an air-conditioned room). He refused to believe that something the size of a TV set could be called a computer, and refused to approve it, but proposed instead that the training centre rented a dumb terminal for the IBM, at about £450 each year, and installed cables from the Computer Room to the training centre (about £7k), then we could buy a copy of Basic and he would make a section of the mainframe's storage available, but not during the payroll run. The cost of a PET (the 'professional' model, with a proper keyboard and 64k of RAM was around £500 at that time (1977), so he said it couldn't possibly be any use for that price! I gave up.
Pete