*sigh*

[stonebender]

As of this very minute, my computer is back! Last Thursday (Thanksgiving for us USAns) I killed my computer while trying to install an upgrade to my Norton Utilities.



I had to hire a computer geek to fix it. Which basically entailed reinstalling Windows again. I have no idea why I can always find three copies of previous versions of software that I don't need at all anymore. Yet can't find the drivers disk for the computer I use every day. Has anyone started using Internet Explorer 7?

With the able assistance of serenejournal and loracs I managed to get most of my software installed. Except for Asheron's Call and a critical Windows upgrade called service pack 2 or something close to that. For some reason Asheron's Call wouldn't install. It just kept telling me I needed to upgrade and directing me to Windows update. I was guessing that the critical update had something that my game needed. So I started looking at other ways to install the critical update. I found the instructions on alternative ways to get it installed. I couldn't get any of them to work. Meanwhile, I became very disenchanted with Internet Explorer 7. So I decided to go back to 6.

Once I was back to 6 I tried one more time out of pure stubbornness to install my game and by golly it installed no problem. Now I still don't have the critical update installed and I'm a little worried about that but all my old software is working. I can't believe how much work it was to get everything back up. So here I am back online.

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I have IE7 installed at work, but I don't really use it per se -- I mostly use Firefox.

WinXP Service Pack 2 is an incredibly important update to apply, though. I hope you can find a way to get it going. There's probably a standalone installer you can download, which you might have better luck with.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

WinXP Service Pack 2 is an incredibly important update to apply, though. I hope you can find a way to get it going. There's probably a standalone installer you can download, which you might have better luck with.

*nods* I get that it's important. I had tried everything that I could think of to get it installed. I didn't realize there might be a standalone installer. On your suggestion, I went looking and found one. It didn't install on the first try either but I finally got it to install after much blood, sweat, and tears. *relief*

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Yay! Also: go you!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Good job, sweetie!

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

It's an example of when my stubbornness is a feature! :-)