I love my computer

[ivybgreenflower]

I know when Microsoft introduced Vista it seemed like everyone who knew anything about computers suddenly started carrying around picket signs saying stuff like "THE END IS NIGH" and "VISTA SUCKS" and "XP FOREVERRRRRRRR", but I never really knew why. I still don't know why. My computer is awesome. I did something monumentally stupid to my computer tonight, which is strange because usually I'm great at avoiding doing really dumb things to my computer, but somehow I made it forgot what zip files were. It completely forgot how to extract from them, create them, and it even stopped giving them that cute little icon with the folder with the zipper on it. It was all "WTF is this? Exactly what do you expect me to open THIS with?" and I was all "I dunno, whatever it is you used to use?" and it was all "lol no". And so I googled. Google failed. And I went to Yahoo! Answers and found some other dumbass who did the same thing I did, and they failed too, except that one person suggested system restore, which freaked me out. I'm used to the Windows 98 era of system restore, which means that you wipe your computer clean and restore it to the way it was when it came out of the box for the first time. Which is definitely not what I wanted. But computers built in this century apparently have a totally different kind of restore. They shouldn't even call it restore. They should call it "The Program That Fixes All The Stuff You Were Dumb Enough To Mess Up But Leaves Everything Else Alone". Because that's what it did. It restored itself right back to knowing what to do with a zip file and how to make one and how to extract one and whatever else it can do with zip files that I haven't figured out yet. And it got back the cute little folder with the zipper on it (I have no idea why I love that icon so much, but it's so adorable and literal), so everything's back to normal.

I still don't know what to name my computer, though. She's a girl computer, I know that much, but she's still nameless.

And that's today's tale of techno hissyfit goodness.

-3:39 AM