Wednesdays and other beasts
Apr. 12th, 2006 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI did not, in fact, screw up my work email, but it was a near enough thing to wake me up.
See, this beast has been running slow lately. Granted, it might have something to do with the 60-page documents I've been saving, 40 pages of which consist entirely of imported JPEGs, but the point is, it's slow and it annoys me. It occurred to me this morning that maybe defragmenting it would help. So I shut down Outlook and started defragmenting the beast, and an hour (and 4% defragmented) later, it occurred to me that running AdAware couldn't hurt either.
So I stop the defragmenting, download AdAware and run it, and half an hour later it comes up with 7 registry keys and 98 cookies, and I tell it to delete the registry keys. Which it does, and then I go to send email, and it sits in my Outbox and doesn't go anywhere. HELLS, says I. Fifteen minutes of reading unhelpful help files and a minor panic later, I discovered that Outlook had taken itself offline for some reason or other. I turn that off, and the Outbox empties itself, and life is splendid.
So the upshot is, I have not done anything irretrievable to my email, which is good because I'm waiting for a couple of important ones.
It's final committee meeting season again; I've got seven in the pipeline now. That's fine, though, because the next SOP meeting isn't until mid-May, so it feels something like a small vacation. I'm perfectly happy to schedule committee meetings if I'm not trying to deal with the SOP meeting at the same time.
I've taken to walking to work in the morning. Yes, the bus is still faster, but I don't feel like waiting around for it and then being packed in with what feels like half of the rest of Roxbury. Walking is good for you, anyway.
See, this beast has been running slow lately. Granted, it might have something to do with the 60-page documents I've been saving, 40 pages of which consist entirely of imported JPEGs, but the point is, it's slow and it annoys me. It occurred to me this morning that maybe defragmenting it would help. So I shut down Outlook and started defragmenting the beast, and an hour (and 4% defragmented) later, it occurred to me that running AdAware couldn't hurt either.
So I stop the defragmenting, download AdAware and run it, and half an hour later it comes up with 7 registry keys and 98 cookies, and I tell it to delete the registry keys. Which it does, and then I go to send email, and it sits in my Outbox and doesn't go anywhere. HELLS, says I. Fifteen minutes of reading unhelpful help files and a minor panic later, I discovered that Outlook had taken itself offline for some reason or other. I turn that off, and the Outbox empties itself, and life is splendid.
So the upshot is, I have not done anything irretrievable to my email, which is good because I'm waiting for a couple of important ones.
It's final committee meeting season again; I've got seven in the pipeline now. That's fine, though, because the next SOP meeting isn't until mid-May, so it feels something like a small vacation. I'm perfectly happy to schedule committee meetings if I'm not trying to deal with the SOP meeting at the same time.
I've taken to walking to work in the morning. Yes, the bus is still faster, but I don't feel like waiting around for it and then being packed in with what feels like half of the rest of Roxbury. Walking is good for you, anyway.
