Battery Power Causes Laptop's Performance to Decline

"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Christopher Muto" <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:13pugrsg741153e@corp.supernews.com...
>> "S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>> news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.net. ..
>>>
>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>> How much memory?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>
>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>
>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>
>> right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her
>> waste time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power
>> saving measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from
>> appearing on the screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i
>> previously mentioned.
>>
>
>
> I dropped the thread when the poster dismissed exceeding the recommended
> RAM specifications.
>
> Further, running a budget system on (what I consider to be) off-brand RAM
> in the wrong size......
>
> It's obvious to me that the poster has it all figured out and doesn't need
> any assistance from me.
>

good point. i missed that. i thought he/she took out the original 512mb
module and opted just for the 2gb one (system total of 2gb not 2.5gb), but i
re-read it and think you are right. some people are their own worst enemy.
like my suggestion (for the same problem that took me ages to solve), it
would be a very simple thing to test. but i guess there is no fun in
actually solving the problem, then there would be nothing left to talk about
since windows machines are so trouble free.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.net ...
>>
>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>> How much memory?
>>>
>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>
>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>
>>
>>
>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>
>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>
>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her waste
>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power saving
>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on the
>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>mentioned.
>


What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
is the only one right?

I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.

The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
work or solve the problem.

"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2drup3d1srqsf1ua4odr5toa74timunc8d@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.ne t...
>>>
>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>> How much memory?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>
>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>
>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>
>>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her waste
>>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power saving
>>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on
>>the
>>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>>mentioned.
>>
>
>
> What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
> is the only one right?
>
> I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
> either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
> favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.
>
> The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
> work or solve the problem.

nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the culprit
to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it seems
pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of the
suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to how
windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even a
pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows, you
can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with the
obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple things
to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know) source
of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if they
want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
themselves. let them call dell and have dell them to reload their operating
system, perhaps that will help

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:07:19 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>
>"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:2drup3d1srqsf1ua4odr5toa74timunc8d@4ax.com.. .
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
>> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>>>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.n et...
>>>>
>>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>>> How much memory?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>>
>>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>>
>>>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her waste
>>>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power saving
>>>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on
>>>the
>>>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>>>mentioned.
>>>
>>
>>
>> What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
>> is the only one right?
>>
>> I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
>> either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
>> favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.
>>
>> The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
>> work or solve the problem.
>
>nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
>one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the culprit
>to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it seems
>pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of the
>suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
>work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
>not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to how
>windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
>dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even a
>pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
>of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows, you
>can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
>someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with the
>obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
>and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple things
>to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know) source
>of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
>what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if they
>want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
>themselves.


Well maybe we differ on the approach or solution but since I didn't
follow the last similar post/thread that Stew referred to, I will have
to take your word for it and agree that if a person wants to act like
an idiot, then no one can help him/her. And speaking for myself and
likely others, I'm not here to show how much or little I know nor to
waste my time with trolls but rather to try to help (if I think I can)
those that actually want to be helped. Of course I can be wrong and
I too can learn from others.

Not to argue with you or Stew but let's hope this poster is not a
troll but just not articulate with his/her problems. I guess I'd like
to think positive in this newsgroup .

"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:it4vp3dimhrgaeimsvngp4bvfqskm9ma93@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:07:19 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:2drup3d1srqsf1ua4odr5toa74timunc8d@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
>>> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth. net...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>>>> How much memory?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery
>>>>>> life.
>>>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to
>>>>>> Full,
>>>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a
>>>>> 2gb
>>>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>>>
>>>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>>>
>>>>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her
>>>>waste
>>>>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power
>>>>saving
>>>>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on
>>>>the
>>>>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>>>>mentioned.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
>>> is the only one right?
>>>
>>> I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
>>> either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
>>> favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.
>>>
>>> The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
>>> work or solve the problem.
>>
>>nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
>>one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the
>>culprit
>>to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it
>>seems
>>pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of
>>the
>>suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
>>work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
>>not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to
>>how
>>windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
>>dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even
>>a
>>pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
>>of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows,
>>you
>>can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
>>someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with
>>the
>>obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
>>and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple
>>things
>>to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know)
>>source
>>of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
>>what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if
>>they
>>want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
>>themselves.
>
>
> Well maybe we differ on the approach or solution but since I didn't
> follow the last similar post/thread that Stew referred to, I will have
> to take your word for it and agree that if a person wants to act like
> an idiot, then no one can help him/her. And speaking for myself and
> likely others, I'm not here to show how much or little I know nor to
> waste my time with trolls but rather to try to help (if I think I can)
> those that actually want to be helped. Of course I can be wrong and
> I too can learn from others.
>
> Not to argue with you or Stew but let's hope this poster is not a
> troll but just not articulate with his/her problems. I guess I'd like
> to think positive in this newsgroup .

i am just here to have my suggestions ignored. seems to be working.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.net ...
>>
>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>> How much memory?
>>>
>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>
>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>
>>
>>
>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>
>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>
>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her waste
>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power saving
>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on the
>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>mentioned.

Right -- I didn't see the other thread (what's the subject line?) but
my post (as well as RnR's) pointed more towards a running process. Not
sure if that's what you said Christopher.

I do know that lagging text and / or mouse is very irritating and
makes me swear at my computer (even more than I usually do lol) -- one
of the benefits of living alone.

It was kind of scary that after I installed Dragon Naturally Speaking
the computer seemed to gain the ability to talk back and since then we
have resolved most of our differences. I am just afraid that if I
lose power I'll have to start all over again or that it might have
some kind of evil personality that brainwashes me to do terrible
things -- like vote Republican <shudder>

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:07:19 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
>one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the culprit
>to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it seems
>pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of the
>suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
>work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
>not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to how
>windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
>dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even a
>pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
>of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows, you
>can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
>someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with the
>obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
>and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple things
>to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know) source
>of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
>what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if they
>want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
>themselves. let them call dell and have dell them to reload their operating
>system, perhaps that will help

Wow, that's one long paragraph! Hard to read without the breaks.
Actually it's probably due to my aging eyes which need progressive
lenses.

What was your suggestion Christopher -- was that in another thread? If
so what was the subject line?

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:02:09 -0600, RnR <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote:

>To the OP: Reread Journey's post. I also don't think the battery is
>the problem. Likely a firewall or virus (or similar program) is
>scanning, slowing or stopping other processes during it's operation.
>Recheck your processes running when this happens. I suffer lags in
>preformance when my firewall or virus checker run because I gave my
>firewall / virus checker higher priority over other processes and I'm
>running xp with 2 gigs memory. Yes, it's annoying but I made it do
>this.

Good points RnR -- processes like automatically scheduled
defragmenting or virus checking have caused text delays, in addition
to rogue processes.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:24:09 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:it4vp3dimhrgaeimsvngp4bvfqskm9ma93@4ax.com.. .
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:07:19 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
>> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:2drup3d1srqsf1ua4odr5toa74timunc8d@4ax.com ...
>>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
>>>> <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth .net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>>>>> How much memory?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery
>>>>>>> life.
>>>>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to
>>>>>>> Full,
>>>>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a
>>>>>> 2gb
>>>>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>>>>
>>>>>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her
>>>>>waste
>>>>>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power
>>>>>saving
>>>>>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on
>>>>>the
>>>>>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>>>>>mentioned.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
>>>> is the only one right?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
>>>> either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
>>>> favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.
>>>>
>>>> The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
>>>> work or solve the problem.
>>>
>>>nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
>>>one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the
>>>culprit
>>>to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it
>>>seems
>>>pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of
>>>the
>>>suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
>>>work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
>>>not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to
>>>how
>>>windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
>>>dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even
>>>a
>>>pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
>>>of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows,
>>>you
>>>can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
>>>someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with
>>>the
>>>obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
>>>and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple
>>>things
>>>to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know)
>>>source
>>>of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
>>>what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if
>>>they
>>>want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
>>>themselves.
>>
>>
>> Well maybe we differ on the approach or solution but since I didn't
>> follow the last similar post/thread that Stew referred to, I will have
>> to take your word for it and agree that if a person wants to act like
>> an idiot, then no one can help him/her. And speaking for myself and
>> likely others, I'm not here to show how much or little I know nor to
>> waste my time with trolls but rather to try to help (if I think I can)
>> those that actually want to be helped. Of course I can be wrong and
>> I too can learn from others.
>>
>> Not to argue with you or Stew but let's hope this poster is not a
>> troll but just not articulate with his/her problems. I guess I'd like
>> to think positive in this newsgroup .
>
>i am just here to have my suggestions ignored. seems to be working.
>


Chris don't be so hard on yourself. I know you are pretty good at
solving a lot of problems here and a frequent contributor. Frankly
sometimes I feel like you where I feel ignored especially after either
giving a post a lot of thought or just writing a long post in reply to
someone's problem and it gets no reply or ignored.

Remember this is the internet so you can't take anything personal even
if directed at you ( I too have to take this advice ) !! Yeah I know
at times it's tough advice to swallow.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:38:47 -0600, Journey <journey@merr.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:22 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
><muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
>>news:y2Fnj.53257$k27.50040@bignews2.bellsouth.ne t...
>>>
>>> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6B8FA6C7217C467EB6287322335E2DA6@M2010...
>>>> How much memory?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
>>>> Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
>>>> or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.
>>>>
>>>> And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
>>> SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).
>>>
>>> It just appears the poster has had a name change.
>>
>>right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her waste
>>time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power saving
>>measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from appearing on the
>>screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i previously
>>mentioned.
>
>Right -- I didn't see the other thread (what's the subject line?) but
>my post (as well as RnR's) pointed more towards a running process. Not
>sure if that's what you said Christopher.
>
>I do know that lagging text and / or mouse is very irritating and
>makes me swear at my computer (even more than I usually do lol) -- one
>of the benefits of living alone.
>
>It was kind of scary that after I installed Dragon Naturally Speaking
>the computer seemed to gain the ability to talk back and since then we
>have resolved most of our differences. I am just afraid that if I
>lose power I'll have to start all over again or that it might have
>some kind of evil personality that brainwashes me to do terrible
>things -- like vote Republican <shudder>


The computer actually talks back ? I'm sorta use to that as my
daughters used to do a lot of that to me <g>.