THE TIMEKEEPER CHRONICLES

I yanked the hd out of the corrupt pc (on the floor) and stuck it in an old computer I had in order to retrieve as much recent data as possible. This was fun.
Here I am considering a final fate for the PC
Here is it getting formatted


Hello folks. Nice to be here. There has been some much unexpected technical difficulties at the Miller's house. One big enough to have to do the ol' FDISK! I will take some of the blame for this failure, but I give most of it to STUPID NORTON INTERNET SECURITY.

You know, I'm big into keeping our computers/home network safe from all the crap that's out there. And I have been updating and giving my money to Norton for the last 6 years to do so. And overall, everything has been fine until.....they recently wanted me to update my Norton to the latest NIS2008....for free! How could I not do that? Well, I shouldn't have, because the next thing I know web pages wouldn't load, you couldn't print from either IE7 or Outlook Express. And here I go, searching about a million forums, Windows updates...every where in order to find what what happened, and to get a fix. In my journeys, I did find enough information to get the thing to where it would work, but things still weren't quite right. In another forum, I discovered that the problem could lie in the registry. Our computer *had* two admin accounts, one being mine, and one being Susan's. It was her account that had all the problems (now why is that?) Anyway, a long story short, I went screwing around with the registry to see if I could get it to work, and WALA!.............IT DIDN'T! Not only did it not fix the problem, it completey CRASHED.

My head hung low. I've been defeated. This piece of crap. Like alot of people nowadays, the home computer is almost a necessity because we now do so much with them. My biggest thing has been the videos, pictures, all the editing software, financial stuff, etc. But, I am at least half way smart, I did have a bunch of backups...actually one as recently as January. How about that.

The Dell had to be formatted, and a fresh copy of WinXP Pro installed. And there is NO Norton on my computer. (I recommend AVGFree for all you cheapo's out there - it works perfect). Other than all the work that I had to do get this thing up and going again, it actually has been a blessing because the thing runs as good as it did when I got it. And Susan is happy because I can now stop talking about getting a new computer (at least for a while).