Another helpful hint

If your computer has been having some bad performance lately, particularly in the internet side of things, I recommend that you look at your spyware, antivirus and firewall package.

2 hints: Don't try to run too many packages for the same job, they'll interfere with one another, and the other hint is to not install (or uninstall) the Zonealarm spyware toolbar - this caused me a headache after I upgraded zonealarm a couple of days ago.

Of course, that's not to criticise the performance of any of the software I'm running, and Zonealarm seems to do a perfectly good firewall job, just that toolbar (which runs in your browser) doesn't seem to help my system.

Any beer-watchers will note I haven't done any brewing lately....I've not been getting through it quickly enough! I've finished pouring the failed Fixby Gold down the sink, and I've some Gallia to get through, though it's brewed a long time now so I hope it'll not have gone off.....

Irritating Flash drive problems...

I bought a flash drive recently, a USB key thingy. This is a cry for help. It has a new U3 feature on it, which enables you to run programmes from the flash drive rather than the pc's own hard disk. But whenever it tries to load this up, my PC freezes! AArrrggghhh.

I'm hoping that somebody might stumble across this post and help me out. Some hope, huh!? Right, it's that time. Blog again soon.