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dino48 wrote:

I am intersted but so far away and my be going into a meltdown mode from all this heat!!

Yep. That's a long haul for you. However......... Cool, crisp October nights beside a campfire and Shermans Creek about 50yds away could be just the right medicine to help in your recovery from a scalding, drought ravaged summer.

Can a newb to the site send good juju your way?

While I may be a stranger to chordie dot com, I'm no stranger to surgery  (I'll be having my 3rd spinal operation in August), and though yours seems to be fairly routine as far as these things go, it's always a comfort (to me, anyway) to know there are good thoughts makin' their way around the universe...

dino48 wrote:

Amy please tell me!! and get everone to lean onthe west side of there areas so the water leakes to the west coast!! 100 now and for the next few days. Send Water!!

Dino, it's drought everywhere!  Oregon has 19 out of 39 Counties on water conservation limits (and has had for over 5 years now).  My cousins from the Eastern side of the mountain were over visiting last weekend and we heard all about what they have been putting up with.  Irrigation water allotments were cut in half several years ago, and they have been cut in half again just recently...... simple math makes that 25% of what was available 10 years ago!  They're Ranchers and have to maintain pasture and grow feed for the cattle, or go out of business.  Not a pretty prospect, and pumping from wells is not allowed.  Water is measured in acre-inches instead of acre-feet, so you don't "make hay while the sun shines" you do it when your canal is wet.

Just coming out of a week of sunny 90s, and although it's cooling into the 70s, no rain for awhile in the forecast. But fishin' was good the other day, cooked up a nice limit of trout for supper.

Ok, Russell, next thing I'd check is the start up programs.  These are the programs that get themselves ready to go during the start up process.  There's a few ways to do this, but since you have CC Cleaner installed, we'll go that route since it's fairly easy. 

When you go into CC Cleaner, you'll see "tools" on the left, and then once you click on that, click on "Start up" and make sure you're in the "Windows" tab at the top - you're going to probably see a whole HUGE list of things that start up when your computer starts.  Now, some of those things are important and you don't want to disable them, but others are not so much!  ie: Adobe Reader does not need to start up when you start your computer and run in the background (unless you spend every day reading PDF documents).  If you don't ever use google drive, but it's starting at start up you can disable that too.  This doesn't mean that they won't work when you want them to, it just means they won't be open and ready to go first thing (hogging your start up time unnecessarily).  If you want, you can take a screenshot of what you see here and email it to me, I'll happily look though the list and let you know what you can safely disable on start up.  I tend to be very cautious, and only disable things that I'm 100% sure aren't necessary.  As much as I like the ease of use of CC Cleaner, I do disable the monitor on start up also by the way.    For example, I use a few image editing programs on my laptop, but I have them disabled on start up because while I use them often, I do NOT use them every day.  I'd prefer to wait while they load when I'm ready to use them, rather than have them slow my system down on start up. 

The built in Windows "Snip it" tool is great for taking screenshots!

Windows 10 promises faster start up times.  I hope that it does work well on your laptop!  In the meantime though, having a lot of stupid things starting that aren't needed will go a long way to speeding up not only your start up, the the whole computer in general because - if they don't open on start up, then they won't be open in the background as your using it either (until you need them). 

*I'd have turned this into a private convo. many posts ago - but I think it's good for people to be able to find useful info.  I'm also hoping that if I steer Russell wrong, someone will correct me so I can learn something new too!    Thanks to Doug for the support, and I forgot to mention that I appreciate the info about the SSD's.  I had read a little about the mechanics of them and had a bit of concern re: spinning etc.  Good to know that I chose wisely by not wasting money on one!  I am curious though, what you think about the hybrid drives (500 gb + 8GB SSD).  I didn't get one of those either, seemed kind of gimicky.  I think I'll try Linux when I get some extra time to fiddle around on the computer (who knows when that'll be).  I'm pretty curious! 

Sometimes when I practice I video tape myself and what comes out I learn something from the song, I played this on my acoustic with a slide and later did the video overlay against a green screen it is several years old but every now and then I like to review songs and listen to them with a fresh ear.
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