*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.

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[stonebender.livejournal.com]

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