Update: Progress...? Kinda.

My level editor's coming along nicely, I must say. Recently I managed to obtain BlueGUI (an EXCELLENT GUI plugin for DarkBASIC Pro that allows you to create decent user interfaces) which I've since been studying and applying to my editor. It's working so well and making everything tie together so nicely that I'm rather happy about it. :)

So while progress has been made, it's very small. And here's why.

My laptop that I'm programming on doesn't like Windows for some reason right now. Anytime I boot into Win7, it's slow, things overheat a bit faster, and it crashes, leaving me with the dreaded "hard-boot" option which is HORRIBLE to do on your computer. So I have been using Ubuntu/Linux exclusively the last day or so, and haven't had any of those problems. Nothing's crashed, nothing's been slow, and everything's been pretty smooth. So what the heck is up with my laptop and Windows not getting along all of a sudden?

I've done virus scans, disk defragging/cleanup, and have started monitoring CPU and RAM usage more closely. Something REALLY likes to take up a lot of resources, and I think it's Win7 itself. Either that or I've got something unknown running in the background. I think I'll uninstall a few programs I don't need and see if that does anything.

Why do I always encounter computer problems anytime I'm close to finishing a programming project?! For those of you who were on my blog back during NaGaCreMo '10, you'll know I was unlucky enough to catch a virus which required me to lose everything on my hard drive in a reformat/reinstall. That was rather annoying.

I know I don't have to do that this time, but I am tempted to run a repair if problems continue on the Win7 partition of my laptop. Of course I'll back everything up because I know nothing's infected. This is not the cause of a virus, it's something taking up a ton of resources when it shouldn't be.