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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Doubtless your aim will improve. ;-)

Sorry to hear about your computer loss. I know nothing about the buggers so I will send healing thoughts in it's general direction...



My reality check has just bounced again.......

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.



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Sarah

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

A doornail? That would be what it is as dead as?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Yes, doornail, that would be it, and not any flightless birds of any kind at all. Honest.



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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?

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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.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Computers are logical. It's the programmers that are the problem - especially the ones who wrote Windows...

Computers are not logical. They have malice glands, like cats and small ponies....

programmers wrote Windows? I thought they'd got some monkeys in to do it.

Restarted computer. Internet Exploder (which is what I meant to type) is still exploding.

If it is not all right by Monday (when I'm going to have to do serious work-type things with it) it may be me that explodes.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

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...)

Damn. I've forgotten to have my tea.

I didn't think there was any way of avoiding logging-in on XP ,,, and why on earth do you have to press ctl+alt+del before you do?

I have to go through that performance Dave just did every time I get a new PC at work. Pain.



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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 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... :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

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...



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