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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Can this PC be saved?
Or shall I just chuck it through my window, rather than returning it to my neighbor? This is the one what I'm trying to upgrade for my neighbor (who does my dog-sitting). I wanted to put Windows 10 on it, while that's still free.
Instead, we can't even open a "Compose email" window in IE (yahoo mail) if *any* other tab is open. I propose she use it for a kitty litter box, rather than trying to upgrade it to anything. She herself is computer illiterate enough that, when the compose mail window doesn't open, she clicks again. So we wind up with 5 or 6 processes trying to open, when in fact, even the FIRST cannot manage to start itself. This machine is a piece of s**t. And I don't believe in swearing. We finally got a message in the lower right, from Yahoo mail, about "this is taking too long; wanna revert to Basic Mail?". I clicked that. 5 minutes later, the screen changed to that. By then, she had given up and asked to use my mac, for the email and resume she wanted to submit. (We did that, but I cringed lest she click on something strange and, in her un-computer-acy, expose my mac to viruses.)
It is a barely 2 year old AMD E1-2500 Radeon 1.4 GHz with 4G Ram. 64 bit OS currently running (managed to upgrade to?) 8.1 w Bing. HP Pavilion. Will throwing memory at it save anything, or is a doorstop too good for this thing?
Or is all this related to internet problems? This was at my house; not hers. Her internet doesn't work at all. Mine only gets 15Mps on a good day, but it never hangs up like that.
She hasn't actually *asked* me to fix this thing. She never uses it or even turns it on. But she's looking for a new job, and I'm getting tired of her using my mac for that. I can keep her PC set up wired to my internet (not wifi), if we can only get some decent speed out of the horrible thing.
Any ideas? Help Mr Wizard!!
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Deb,
Yahoo mail and IE do not always play well together.
Just put the darn thing on basic email and you are golden.