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Something is terribly wrong with my computer. The last reinstall seemed to go fine, and I thought it was updating properly but nothing will install properly. It's not even remembering what updates were installed from Windows Update. Why??? I didn't have this much trouble the last time I formatted my old hard drive (the computer was saying there was a fatal error with my old drive each time I started it up, and recommended I get a new one immediately). But last time, just formatting it and reinstalling it worked ok --- maybe I need to do that here. I thought putting a new drive in would just be easier to format and reinstall without going through the bother of formatting the old one and worrying about finishing copying some of the TV shows I'd recorded onto the hard drive. I wanted to just put the new drive in, install things and then just copy what I wanted off the old one onto the new one and then just format the old one and hopefully start with a clean sweep.

I may just copy what I can off the old one then set it up again as the primary and format it and try again that way. Last time it seemed to work that way - maybe this time it will work. If not, then I guess maybe it's just time for a new system. My laptop is much more reliable than my home built one now-a-days. Just too many worms and stuff for me to worry about - of course that can happen with a new system but at least everything in a new system is compatible and built to work with one another instead of worrying whether or not it will work on a home built.

I'll see if they have that drive scrubbing program at London Drugs today, I'll also try that in addition to the above. If that doesn't work then I'll start shopping for a new system.

- Steve

grrrrrr

I should've guessed things wouldn't be so easy. My computer is still giving me heartache and I am now on my 5th install of XP.

Things were so cool but somehow, and I didn't even do it - cause I had only been updating Windows, but somehow it just stopped and froze, and when I rebooted I had a shitload of spyware and adware. So I think this time, if it works, the first thing that gets installed is going to be McAfee.

- Steve

Quote of the Week: Monday, June 20

"Innovation as an approach to business growth is simply lazy. Actually it's worse than that; it's dangerous... So now we've got a bunch of companies that have forgotten all that boring stuff that made them successful in the first place and are getting into areas they don't know anything about and have no business being in at all. A lot of these companies are showing their commitment to this strategy by creating a new position: CIO. No, that's not Chief Information Officer. It's - yep, you guessed it - Chief Innovation Officer. And these CIOs are rattling on and on about how the company is "retooling" and "charting a new course" and "exploring new opportunities." And let's not forget about "driving double-digit top-line growth." The fact that all that top-line growth will probably come at the expense of the more important bottom line doesn't seem to bother anyone. Except me. - Sergio Zyman, former Chief Marketing Officer, Coca-Cola Company, in his book "Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the NEW thing Might NOT Be the RIGHT Thing"

*** knocks on wood ***

Well, well, well. It's 1:52 am as I begin to write yet another blog entry. I've just re-installed for a 4th time, WINDOWS XP and I think this time, it's going to work. No virus alerts or problems arose this time. No stalls on install. No errors during install. I'm right now downloading again the first set of WINDOWS UPDATES, so we'll see how it goes. So far, it all downloaded ok, fast (as it should be - it was very slow after my 3rd install of the OS), and the installation itself seems to be going smoothly.

*** crosses fingers ***

I hope this works!

So my room is almost clean - I cleaned the closet, the bookcases, the desk, my night-tables, all that is left to sort and organize is the dresser and a bit of the desk which has become messy as I clean the other parts of my room. It smells a lot better too - less dusty.

I will finish early in the morning, I may stay up just installing stuff, I haven't decided yet. If I do I'll continue working on cleaning. We'll see.

I should sleep. And I'm kinda horny lol. I haven't bated in a few days due to being sick and all.

Ack. Now it wants to install a bunch of hardware lol. Which is good - but I don't want it to yet, not until the security updates are installed, oh, nevermind, XP installed it by itself. That's ok I guess lol.

Now installing update 17 of 20...

So far, so good.

I can't wait to get it working, I'll have an 80GB and a 120GB hard drive. I really wanna get a newer DVD burner, one that burns twice as much onto a DVD as the older ones, so I can get more stuff onto a DVD. So far, so good.

I was worried I may have to dump this whole system and start from scratch, but I tried something different on this 4th install, and it seems to have worked.

*** knocks on wood ***

I let Windows assign a random number at the end of the username, so that if there are any worms or viruses that sit out on the internet looking for my old username, well, it's not there anymore. That may be the key?

I dunno.... IT'S A HUGE GUESS ON MY PART.

Found a couple of marketing books I didn't know I had, which is good - I wanted to read them and now I've moved them up to my to read pile.

Anyway, better get to bed or get something done or something other than type randomly into this blog that hardly anyone will probably ever read.

I so could use some chocolate!

But that's bad - I won't lose weight eating chocolate. I so wanna go on my bike ride!

- Steve

grrrrrrrrrrr

I hate my computer. I have a brand new hard drive, but somehow it's getting infected by a worm when I install Windows (this happened with my old drive too - but I thought I had found the fix). But it looks like I haven't, and now it won't even let me apply the old fixes that I did before - I'm trying everything here. How can this be happening? It won't even install windows updates properly. Nothing works. Why do people create viruses and worms? What's the point? I honestly don't see the benefit for anyone. Maybe I'm being really naive here but seriously, why bother? Do you have that much of no life that you have to sit around and be a pain in the ass to other people?

I did some searching online and found a program that may help - although my credit card is maxed out right now so I'm going to go to London Drugs and see if they have it. I also tried the McAfee Stinger program which did find a few viruses but removed all of them. I'm running it now after doing my 3rd reinstall of Windows. So far it's found nothing. I'm also visiting Microsoft Technet and downloading a fix that should work - this is the one that worked many moons ago when I first had this problem.

Thank-god my laptop that still works.

I got all the Monster Cable installed in my room. Still no TV until I get my computer up and running again. Grrr. I hope the fix works, it's rebooting right now... we shall see... *** crosses fingers ***

please please please please please please please please please be ok.

I really don't want to go to London Drugs to fork out another $40 - $80 on software.

so far, so good?

Going into Windows Update now. Hopefully it will work this time after the other fix I installed.

*** knocks on wood ***

the first updates are going ok... YEAH! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED YOUR COMPUTER!

But the damn MESSENGER SERVICE thing is back on - which I always hated, and I forget how to turn it off. OMG SO ANNOYING. That is the next thing to be fixed. Time to turn the damn thing off!

WOOT! It seems to be working!

*** knocks on wood again ***

Now, I'm downloading more Windows Updates... *** waits ***

lots to download... also will have to start installing all my drivers, programs as well as all the udpates I have for my various programs. *** fun ***

So while it's downloading updates I'm going to go back to dusting my bookcase. I'm taking all the books off of each shelf and polishing each shelf one by one so it's nice and clean. I also want to re-arrange one of the shelves I have some texts on - move the texts to the top hmmm or to the bottom, I haven't decided yet. I want them to be more easily accessible, some of the texts I have - I brought some old accounting ones and business ones up that I want to review and I have had them on a shelf that becomes inaccessible when I have my drawing board in my room - so I'm going to move the texts to the top shelf so I can reach them and use them regularly.

my throat isn't sore anymore, well it is a tiny tiny bit, but not at all like it was. Still coughing up crap =S... but I think I'm over it. I hope to have a long nap later today.

- Steve