Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.
So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!
While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:
Windows cannot load the device [...]
Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited… and waited… half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look for my old Sacred Gold [...]
When I first acquired my Lenovo v100, my 100GB went from 70GB free to 0.5GB free in a matter of weeks. This never happened on XP, 98SE, or any other system I had. Only with Vista.
Initially I thought the problem was just system restore. I’d managed to free 13GB by deleting all the old restore [...]
Some of you who have the (mis)fortune of buying a computer or laptop with Vista already installed may have experienced this when a new update was installed.
At the login screen you see a duplicate of your login ids. I saw 2 pairs of cats and dogs for several weeks till I decided to search [...]
How to speed up the performance of Vista? Simple…
1. Turn off Aero
Yes, you bought the upgrade for the pretty but it seriously lags your computer. I finally turned it off after yanking out wads of hair in frustration. Save your hair, especially if you’re a little short, and turn off Aero. Download some pretty themes [...]
Today I decided to test run my new mini-mouse and work from the Lenovo. I have to say I’ve found a wealth of good and a sea of bad. I always like to give the good news first.
The good: I enabled the Aero display setting again and this time it doesn’t seem to lag the [...]
My spanking new laptop, the Lenovo 3000 V100 (okay, really need a nick for it now) comes with Vista Business. I have used it 4-5 times since I got it (still on company laptop for now) and here’s what I think so far as a new user.
Vista is a very different animal.
It is very slow [...]
