Printer-friendly version
Author:
Blog About:
I'm reading "No Half Measures" and am almost finished. It is a very good story.
I notice that if I pause reading for more than a minute or two, the page freezes. It could be my Computer. It is aging and I'm getting ready to get another one. It runs on Win 10, and we all know that I am most certainly no Geek.
I am wondering if the issue has something to do with where the story is stored?
Any ideas?
Gwen
Comments
Not clear
Not clear what you mean by the page freezes. Do you mean it becomes unresponsive to you moving mouse or keys? If so, that does noot match up with any known behavior of BCTS.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Death Throws...
Thanks. This Computer is OLD, an HP Wide Screen Envy, so it may be on the way out. I have learned to really like the very wide screen. Guess, I should buy something. Maybe I'll try Geek Squad tomorrow. I wouldn't even think of working on this thing.
Gwen
"R & R"
(Pre-script): See if anything else is affected, say other BC stories, other websites.
Sometimes a little R & R helps.
R & R for people is just that, rest & recuperation.
R & R for computers is "reboot & retry". The reboot cleans out any "crud" stuck in memory - 'lost' resources, memory leaks and similar.
After two R&Rs with no luck, the problem is almost certainly something else.
As always, regularly back up everything you care about (including Facebook and similar), and test that the backups are good. >Especially< do backups before anything major, like taking your machine in for "surgery", or transferring to a new system. And keep the old machine around, just in case.
Good luck, take care and Happy Reading!
---
Now, I'm off to do >my< backups ... :)
Time to Think.
After giving the matter considerable thought, I have decided to begin looking at a new machine. One of the reasons I like the very wide screen is that I can enlarge the print just lots. I'm 74 and my eyes are not what they once were.
I saw a Computer with a 49" Monitor. As to the Computer, my present one has an i5 chip and I don't seen to run out of memory. I read and write. Gaming is not my thing. I would like to have had the new Flight Simulator, but it seems the software demands a Beast of a Computer. I suppose I'll just go on until I have to do something.
Gwen
Don't forget to make backups
Either a removable drive or put things in the Onedrive folder in Windows that will save things to the MS cloud and will be available on a new machine when you log on with the same Microsoft account.
You can also access your Onedrive files from your cell phone if you ever have the need.
I think you get 15GB for free. I pay $2 a month to get 100gb.
USB Solid State Drives
I have two 1 Gig portable drives and two 2 Gig Solid State drives. Because of my own paranoia, I avoid one drive, though they did trick me into putting a file on it. I avoid using my C: drive for other than incidental things. I'm not the most highly valued Author on BCTS, so it works for me.
Gwen
2 backups
I have an attached (flash plug) hard disk for weekly or monthly backups and a 32GB flashdrive for daily or major backups. You can't have too many backups!
Definitely not BCTS.
Highly likely it is something with your PC.
It might be a good idea to see if the problem is a hardware or a software one. If it is a hardware problem, it might or might not be repairable - check that with a technician. If it is a software problem, a good cleanup, or in the worst case a reinstall of Windows 10 will solve it.
Success!
Something similar
I've come across something similar and have tracked down the problem. I'm still using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 11 as that works best for me and hate Windows 10.
So The Glitch I found and is when you have have multiple tabs open one of the pages glitches out usually to failing to load in ads or flash element that has been disabled this causes websites not to work properly and yes BCST Canon does freeze in case.
The fix find the offending page and reload it or simply just have one tab open.
I am a male lolita.
So what is lolita fashion http://lolita-tips.tumblr.com/faq
Jenny Walker
Jenny has allowed me to edit three of her books.
She is a gifted writer.
If you have not read the others, they're all on Amazon.
JIll
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Speaking of Jenny...
She is one of the great writers in this genre (as you are Jill as well). Can we expect anything new from Ms. Walker soon? The much anticipated sequel to "No Half Measures" which she said would jump ahead 10 years in the story? Inquiring minds need to know...
Sammy
No Half Measures
My curiosity became too much for me, so after Chapter 30, I skipped to the end. Now I have to return to Chapter 31 and after that... to see if she had SRS, or if Doctors discovered partially matured organs. She is a very good, easy to read Author and I shall enjoy doing that. It is a puzzlement to me that some of the famous Authors that I have read, are awful and tedious to read. It has been the story which kept me toiling away.
It seems to have been more than a dozen years since this story was published, so I wonder how long since her first inspiration? I do hope that she continues to write for as long as she wishes.
Gwen
"Older" eyeballs, (big) screens & keyboards ...
My eyeballs are old enough (67 years), that I will sometimes complain to, or even abandon some websites for being unreadable/unusable-by-me. This is after trying to 'fix' those sites using browser options, such as screen font, size and color, link colors, and magnification (zoom) level.
Computers (even in one's home) can be wired together so that your old/new machine can send video to the monitor that you like (saving the cost of a new display). Keyboards can be plugged in (today, almost always by USB). The result can be that you have only the monitor of choice and keyboard in front of you, and the 'brain-box" running your software can be 1-2 meters out of your way.
Where I'm at (USA), I'd talk to the Geek Squad (*) at Best Buy to get ideas on options.
(*) I have no affiliation with either, other than a maintenance contract with them for my machines.
HP Envy laptop
My laptop is an HP Envy, but with an Intel i3 CPU and 4 GB of RAM, running Windows 10, and I haven't experienced your issue. The suggestion to minimize the number of browser tabs you have open is a good one. You didn't mention what browser you're using.
I only use the laptop for Zoom meetings and for travel. My main system (which I am using now) is an HP Pavilion with an Intel i7 CPU and 16 GM of RAM. I use Firefox on this system and Edge on the laptop, though the browser on the laptop is only used to connect to a motel's network when traveling, which I haven't been able to do for a year and a half.
Another place to consider is your Internet connection. When I had DSL, it would often drop connection and whatever I was doing on the Web would freeze or crash. This would pretty much happen daily, though it dropped connection six times one day and five the next, which is when I got fed up and switched to fiber. It's about $10 more per month, but I went from about 800 kbps on DSL to about 350 mbps on the fiber. Since my desktop has a gigabit Ethernet connection, I am able to actually get that extra speed.