Schizoid Man

Okay guys, your help would be appreciated. Cheapo Acer Aspire 5100 laptop for £400, not bad at all. until I start downloading the new IE, MSN, Itunes, Winamp, a whole load of comedy, half life 2, deus ex, more games, and a lot of music, mostly illegally. Then suddenly bam, the whole thing grinds to a halt. I can't play music at the same time as any other application anymore without it stuttering, programs frequently crash or have extended periods where the little top left icon becomes a frustrating white box, start up is at least 10 minutes, and I CANT EVEN SEE WHAT IM TYPING HALF THE TIME COS THERES A TIME LAG! Pissing me off basically. I got norton, and as far as it knows my pc is virus free. So I got Windows XP Medic for $30, it 'cleaned up' my system tray, registry etc as much as it could...no effect. So it looks like a complete reformatting/reboot thing right. Note that I tried system restore and the three or so dates it stored wouldn't go. Basically, whats the easiest way of wiping my system while retaining all the shit i need, on a load of DVDS if need be...? I just gotta iPod which took all day to get 700 songs running so keeping that is paramount of course, as well as a load of work and bits of importan stuff. A program that lets me check and uncheck stuff to keep or not would be great, so I could keep throwing in DVDs and keeping all the essentials to reload when the PCs wiped basically. Help? Me? THank you lovely people, and happy Wiing! :yay:

The album is superb! Especially the last three or four tracks, KoC is gonna rock my socks off at Reading!

It's on page 2 fools.

Fantastic album, best of the year so far, and Frusciante's playing is absolutely flawless throughout.

You don't wanna know how much I wanna mug you... But I got tickets for Roger Waters for the Hyde Park Calling in July. Which is as good as it gets for Pink Floyd fans.

I loved Snickers Crunchers till they disappeared, even if they were weedy compared to real snickers. And those Kit Kat editions are sweet, particularly tiramisu, even if they're annoyingly small again.

That baby was so lovable.

Hmm...the family guy movie was fantastic. So they need to center it around maggie :P

Man Wes that is unlucky, how old was the guy who did it? I once got dapped in the face three times by some kid in a Lonsdale top who looked literally 11 years old. I couldn't do jack-shit back cos he had a bunch of other 16-18 year old retarded shits with him. That is humiliating. Never mind, spend the money you get in compensation on Radiohead at London tickets, sell one to me, everyone's happy. :P Any chance of photos Wesley. Without trying to sound too fucked in the head? Hope you get well eventually buddy.

what is this, weekend magazine?

Jesus Christ that photo made my stomach heave. That pretty much epitomises how the world is so fucked...suicide... Pink Floyd reunite after over 2 decades of running dispute to try and help with the sorting out of what's so fucked with the world. Hmmm...I'm not sure everyone will agree. Someone get this man away from Wayne Rooney! (That's as he tears that guy's ear off). Hmmm...all rather negative so far.

Erm..there were some pretty embarassingly daft song titles and snippets of lyrics (never mind matt bellamy's never been the best lyricist), exciting talk of a song being the Stroke's 12:51(?)'s warped cousing and another song having Ennio Morricone style choir work, less exciting talk of a romantic ballady typa song. Matt said something about the Franz alternative guitar + disco sound beeing cool. Some weird stuff about the 'pressures' of partying in France. I'd love a more jazz inspired direction frankly but meh. Also, exclusive announcement from Radiohead next week apparently.

Don't I know it Also, I can't be fucked for another thread but Muse have a new album ready for May 19th or so I heard. NME's preview of it was shit, but NME are shit.

The Standard of Simpsons today is embarassing, frankly. Whereas 'classic' Simpsons (quite a sizable chunk you'll find!), Family Guy and Futurama are the holy trinity of hilarious animation. I mean will Zoidberg's 'woop woop's' ever get stale? Don't answer that one.

Indeed Fierce Link. The book is set 6 years in the future, (although the future Dick imagined was a little more likely 20 or so years ago when he wrote it) and concerns an illegal drug, Substance D, that separates the two brain hemispheres and causes irreversible brain damage. Etc....Aintitcool.com has got a better synopsis. I dunno if Radiohead'll do compose the whole soundtrack or chuck in some newies off of LP7 but it'll sure make for an awesome film/music marriage.