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I have not been having an enchanted evening. My comp died. Utterly lifeless. Panic. Drag Claire's comp in, hook it all up, install all essential software. Damn thing then would only work at 16 colours/640 pixels. Drivers have to be downloaded. Have you ever tried to use the net at 16 colours and 640 pix wide? It is by no means fun. Eventual success, hence this post, but I hate this keyboard and of course all my docs and pix etc etc are on the dead comp, and will have to be retrieved somehow (I'm hoping it's just a fuse).
Damn computers.
Oh, and welcome back, Ook. We missed you.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
I spent a merry hour last night downloading new drivers for my graphics card, so I could play Neverwinter Nights. At work it would have taken just under a minute.
Great game though.
Sorry to hear about the 'puter Jon. [sends IT vibes in the hope of resurrecting it]. If it is really really dead (no beeps, no fan, hard drive doesn't spin etc), it probably is the fuse...
I had my pc in bits the other night, installing a new hard drive. Kate wanders in the middle of it all "I want to check my email".
Erm, right. Give me an hour to put this lot back together, and I'll be right with you....
Computers produce more foul language from David than any other ten things in the world put together. No wonder they call that thing on the screen a "cursor".
Anyway... Jon, you have all my sympathy. Hope you get the [insert abuse of your choice here] thing fixed very soon.
Thanks all for the kind words. Speaking of kind words I think I must have outsworn David tonight. My PC is still as dead as a ...er, well you know what I mean, and I have been having a hell of a time setting up Claire's. Still, I appear to have achieved success, so I am now firmly back in the land of the connected (I hope).
Odd thing ... despite having un-installed and re-installed the a-oh-hell software at least twice tonight, it has managed to retain my login on the fforum. Which is nice.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
my PC went somewhat fuzzy last night, for no readily apparent reason. Nothing as drastic as Jon's, thank God, but CD player went on the fritz and it wouldn't do anything, even close. Gggrrrrrrr.
I saw a humorous greetings card in a shop window yesterday that showed a computer which had been fitted with an airbag for when it crashed, so that the user wouldn't hurt their head while banging it against the screen in frustration. Does that sound like a good idea to any of you?
Definitely! Windows Exploder has just exploded on mine, so I can't get anything between a full-screen window and one that is minimised out of sight. As someone who normally likes to work with two or three windows open on the screen simultaneously, I find that pretty annoying, though of course it pales into insignificance beside the problems other people have been having.
Never be misled into believing that computers are logical. It's a dark lie.
Am now cursing computer. On friend's advice, deleted all accounts apart from 'administrator' account on pc, to save me having to log in (this is winXP).
Now I've gone and lost all Kate's emails, addresses etc. ooops.
tried to locate folder where I thought such gubbins were kept.
no sign of it. Eeek.
turns out XP thoughtfully disabled the ability to view all folders, just showed me the basic user ones, not the system ones.
Now, call me crazy, but if I log in as Administrator, surely I want to be able to administer my computer for which I need access to all folders??
Anyhoo, the long and the short of it is that I've recovered all emails and addresses (but not email rules, bizarrely...)
my friend reckoned that if you just have one admin account with no password, it'd log you straight in.
The reason for pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del is to stop nasty virus whatsits from nicking your login and password - if a fake login screen is running, by pressing ctrl+alt+del it would bring up the task manager, not the proper login screen. Sort of makes sense.
My 70+ Dad is determined to get to grips with computers. He bought himself a snazzy new set-up last year at a computer fair, and got XP when XP was so new there were no books available to help him. He struggled with it for some time before learning the painful lesson that it is generally *not* a good idea to buy the very latest operating system. He's now got ME installed
Internet Exploder now unexploded, thanks to the excellent Stephen Parry who happened to be online a little earlier! What joy it is to have friends who know how to tame crotchety computer critters... :-)
I don't have to log into XP - and have just the admin account with no password. XP is actually less tempermental than previous Windows versions, which is as close as I'll get to a recomendation...
PSD
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