Re: [Tuxpaint-users] win xp beta version - w/installer

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi Simona,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Simona Riva wrote:
> John Popplewell ha scritto:
> > can you run 'Configure Tux Paint', select the 'Languages' tab, and turn
> > off 'Load System Fonts' (top-right), and make sure it is off for both
> > 'Current User' and 'All Users' (bottom-left)?
> 
> DONE - but the Load System Fonts option is already unchecked by default, 
> both for current and all users
> > Let us know if it is already off.
> >   
> (up)

OK, thanks for that. I just tried a clean install on my laptop and it
seems to default to being off.

> > Which language are you using?
> 
> Italian!

Hehehe. I had to ask, just to be sure. Seems to work OK here, but I
select Italian from the drop-list.

> My attempt to pass beta-testing to my son has failed! He spent the whole 
> day with his best friend!

:-)

> So I've just tried a new TuxPaint session... incredibly well working!
> This time I chose the windowed version, I think that the slowness at 
> startup is probably due to the amount of stamps... or to the fact that I 
> "use" (mainly "watch it used")  TuxPaint on my desktop which is 
> definitely faster than the laptop. Don't know why yesterday it didn't 
> work well... maybe hot weather?!?

Hardware problems are always a possibility - over-heating in hot weather
with clogged cooling vents and a tired fan, but difficult to say
without inspecting the hardware.

I had a laptop (not mine) where the hard-drive was slowly failing.  The
machine started taking longer and longer to boot, a couple of
blue-screens of death (page-faults) and finally it wouldn't boot at all.
Until it failed to boot, I looked in all the wrong places for problems.

cheers,
John.