Okay. I accidentally closed a file without saving it and lost four pages of work. I know Word does auto-saves and there is some way that you can find auto-saved versions of files. I'm using Word 2000 on a ... good grief, I'd forgotten this operating system even existed. On WinME. I have since re-opened and re-named the file, and, in fact, ( Read more... )

Fuh. Ree. Zing. Five mile walk did me much good, but my hands apparently got colder than I realized and still hain't warmed up. Still, it was really gorgeous out and I'm very glad I went for a walk. I feel better. I've got to just do that in the morning, I think. Blood stirring and all that. Stir stir stir. I keep waking up at 6:30 anyway ( Read more... )

- hosts file not corrupted. debela will help me look through further things later, when we catch up with one another again

- MS malevolent software thing run. found nothing.

- spybot S&D found nothing

- dns flush had no effect

- not going through a proxy to reach teh intarwebs, so that's not the problem

- followed eveshka's suggestion for crapcleaner -> ( Read more... )

I'm at a loss. YouTube vid feeds have been making my browser (firefox) freeze up when I watch them. In a fit of trying to fix it, I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it fresh and did updates ( Read more... )

Geek failure. In following various suggestions I seem to have added "WinXPDisableZeroConfiguration.exe", which I'm pretty sure is the disable program from here, and now *it's* eating my processing power. It's a registry modification and I not only don't know how to delete it, I'm afraid to try because, well, registry stuff. Augh. Unlike the ( Read more... )

I need the expertise of somebody more expert than myself ( Read more... )