Pimpin' pimpin'

[puddingcat]

springkink is open and taking claims. It's enormous. I'm glad I waited until now; I've made 10 claims as it is, and that was after several were got before I arrived.

Some of the prompts scare me. Looney Tunes? Tom & Jerry? *gulp*

Mind you, I'm really tempted to get my scanner sorted out. I'm getting itchy fingers over some ideas, even though it's been 5-6 years since I last drew in anger. vulgarcriminal? I'm around this weekend, if your offer still stands :)

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[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

I want to know who came up with that Andy/Andy Hot Fuzz prompt. Weirdo. Hehe.

Anyway, I'll be making a couple of claims. More than a couple for art too, probably.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Dude. Jane Austen? You rock :)

[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

Complete lack of anything I'd REALLY like to do, but that sounded like fun. American Gods looked cool too, but I don't play in Neil Gaiman's sandbox.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

*Nods* I was beaten to the Sandman / WK crossover. That's probably a good thing, since I doubt I'd have done it the justice it demands.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

It's the national weekend :(. We're going to be in sunny ESSEX. When do you have free after?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Essex? Argh!

Weekends in general are quite empty atm. When's best for you?

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

possibly Sunday afternoon of bank holiday weekend? Mr. Me wants to take pictures on the Monday :)

Here is a list of things to do in the mean time!

1. Run Disk Cleanup on your machine
Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools

It will probably take a while so you might want to leave it overnight. Let it delete everything it finds.

2. Clear out any .tmp files Disk Cleanup missed
Start/Search
Do a search for *.tmp on all hard drives. Delete them and empty your recycle bin.

3. Then Defrag!
Again, let this run overnight as it might take a while.
Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools

4. If you have Windows XP
start/run/msconfig
Go to start up tab
Clear *everything* and reboot. It means things like gtalk, yahoo messenger and msn won't start up immediately anymore but those things can be a massive system drain and you can always start them from programs.

Reboot system, let it run chkdsk and Defrag again.

That's stuff I probably wouldn't be able to do in sequence in one afternoon.

Thank you!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Right...

1. Done.
2. Done.
3. C: done. D:? I get an error message saying "Disk defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: DATA (D:). Please run Chkdsk /f.

So I did Start - Run - Chkdsk /f and it couldn't, because the volume was in use by another process. So I shut down, then I restarted, it Chkdsked by itself as usual, and the Very First Thing I did was to try defragging D: again. Same problem.

I have XP, so I'll try Thing 4 next. Being unable to defrag is worrying.

That Sunday would be fine :) I shall take you to a Very Nice curry place after, if you don't want cash :)