So...I'm still waiting to hear back from those yahoo's I took my computer to. I called and asked them what was going on. It's been a week. They told me a couple more days and I asked them if it would be better if I came and picked it up instead. I can do a System restore on my own...however, I don't WANT to do that if I DON'T HAVE to...Apparently (and this is how computer literate I am) XP has a roll back feature which I wasn't aware of. I might be able to set my computer back to the date before I installed Frontpage and have it run from then. I'd lose a bunch of stuff, but that's okay. I wish I'd known that before I took it in. I told them I'd call them on Friday. If I don't have it by then, I'm going to have a friggin cow.
The guy told me it was because of the Sassler virus and everyone being infected. That sort of pissed me off...you know, if people would have patched their machines and protected them, there wouldn't have been such a big problem. Okay, I'm just mad cause I have to wait so damn long to get mine fixed, and as selfish as that is, it still irks me I have to wait in line behind some idiots who don't take the time to take care of their computers. *sigh* (note: I do take care of my computer. It's updated, protected, and cleaned up weekly. WHY this happened to me utterly baffles me) So anyway, the guy assumed I had the virus too, and I told him no, my computer crashed when I installed Frontpage and I lost a bunch of programs...and I have no clue what to do...that's why it's there. If they're too busy, they can at least give me some direction and I can take it home and do it myself...He then said that he'd try to look at it today and for me to at least give them until Friday...
I'll call them on Thursday...even better, I'll stop by...heh...
However, I know just getting it home and hooked back up won't be so easy. It never is. I have a funny feeling I'll have router trouble again, but a reset should fix it (it did the last time). If all else fails, I'll just have to take it to a different place, which is what I should have done to begin with...though I need Norton reinstalled which only the place I bought the computer from can do (which I why I took it there to begin with).
So....that's where I'm at right now...still incredibly irritated by all this and bored out of my skull....
Well, I should get going before my mom wakes up and sees I've commandeered her pc. Ha ha...she doesn't really care too much, just so long as I don't go downloading stuff...(party pooper)
Posted by Zoso at May 25, 2004 08:09 PM