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Any religious folk out there offended by waving dead chickens over computers?

Nope, but it's a bit messy.

I don't know how long Firefox takes to load because it's always running and I don't turn the PC off unless there's a specific need to do so.

But we all knew that.....

BTW, I just timed my Firefox. It opens in less than 2 seconds, with BT as the homepage.

Seriously ? :ugh:

For the absolute avoidance of doubt my post was not written with any religious undertone !

I've no idea what religion waves dead chickens, and I don't want to either, as far as I was concerned "waving a dead chicken" is just one of those "sayings".

This is the "computers & internet" section of an Aviation forum. You can hardly go looking for Religious context in a more inappropriate place !

Like so many of "those sayings", mixture, that's where it comes from.
It's not from my lot - we're more into fish than poultry, and anyway - as you say - neither is relevant for computing.

I spend some of my time fixing computers for the good folk of the villages, and often their problem is caused by browser hijackers and PUPs - as provided "free of charge" by certain well known organisations (they require you to untick the box if you don't want the proffered goodie). One delightful octogenarian lady had so many search toolbars that she didn't have much browser screen left to work in.

Mixture,

It was only a JB sort of comment. I rather liked the image you created.

Ancient Observer,

Ah ok. Thanks for clarifying.

Its a great shame his writings don't cover Windows, but for those using Linux, Solaris, BSD or OS X, the various performance troubleshooting methodology guides from Brendan Gregg will easily provide a more authoritative process than needing to resort to dead foodstuffs. Lots of great stuff on his website. :cool:

Got the i7 Vaio out after a long pause and on starting, it offered me an Nvidia driver update. Since one of the reasons I don't use this laptop is the rather poor colours I thought I'd give it a go. It seemed quite a lot better after the update.

Then I noticed it was going into FF in less than 3 seconds. (prior to that it was only a second faster than the old duo PC at c 6 seconds. Five at best.

Goody, thinks I. But my glee was short lived. Soon it was back to about 5 seconds. In that gap I had changed bookmark files and KeePass data. That's about it. (Bookmarks were substantially less than before.)

It was nice while it lasted.