PC is up and running!

[erastes]

It's not enormously faster, but the flat screen is great, and it's Broadband suitable, but i can't afford that till after Christmas.  It also has a DVD player/burner. I won't a clue how that works.  At last I'll be able to put on DVD's that have special PC extras on. hurrah!

I have such a lot of transferring and downloading to do. Ick.  The trouble being that my OLD pc only has a floppy disc and no CD writer, and the NEW pc doesn't have a floppy disc.

hmmm....

so i'll have to do a lot of emailing.  Thank god for writely.com, that's all i can say.

Another place to get your Standish!

Ireland

I wish I had something more interesting to say.  Dull Erastes.

Comments

Ttransferring files

[aunty_marion]

If Old PC has USB ports (New PC certainly should have them!), then a USB memory stick is quite cheap and holds a large amount of Stuph. Like, about £25 for 512Mb, or cheaper. 1Gb sticks come in regularly at around £35 some places. Copy a stick-full over, erase what's on the stick, and copy another stick-full. Shouldn't take too long.

If it's got a DVD/CD-ROM ReWriteable drive, it should have software to go with it, but the newer versions of XP allow you to do it through Explorer. When you load a blank CD (and, I assume, DVDs, but I haven't got a DVD writer, just CD) you get a pop-up window asking what you want to do with it. There's an option which allows you to use it as a blank 'drive' - I forget exactly what it's called, but it should be fairly obvious if you read the options - and then you simply open Explorer, drag files to that 'drive', and then there's a menu option to 'burn files to disc' or something similar. Easy-peasy.

Re: Ttransferring files

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thats the trouble. the old pc DOES have USB ports, it was a good pc for its day, but they never worked for some reason, and I couldn't bear to be without it for long enough to get it mended.

It's annoying. perhaps I'll try and get it fixed after christmas now I have Deep Thought as a replacement.

Until then,,, email email email...