Crash! Bang! and no Boom!
Well I have had an eventful and stressful 24 hours.
I tried setting up my new laptop when I got home and whilst waiting for that to do all its gubbins. I tried to install Office Pro on the PC. It seemed to install okay until I tried any of the programs. They kept freezing and eventually after accessing Outlook, the computer just shut itself down.
I was having major problems with it, and couldn't even uninstall office or any other programs. In the end it just froze completely for about 20 minutes.
I had to go for the drastic measure of resetting the entire pc back to factory settings.
So, I managed to do that this morning and then had to drive down to my Mum's to pick up some furniture, which then turned into lunch out.
I've now spent the rest of my day trying to put back on everything from my back-up drive.
This includes a seriously large amount of music, word docs, software and pictures.
I managed to save all my emails as well, which was damn lucky as I received the beta'd chapter 6 back last night.
Overall there's been no serious harm done, but it’s just been a lot of hassle that I didn't want to have to devote to this weekend. And as usual my inner OCD wouldn't let me rest until I had managed to get this sorted.
My next task was to get the laptop connected to the wireless network, which was more hassle.
Happily though my next task is just putting software on the laptop and then it's set up.
One groovy gadget on my laptop, I can Bluetooth from my phone to the laptop, and vice versa. A pretty neat little gizmo XD
Next thing I'm buying though is a decent computer chair, my back is really starting to suffer sitting on this hard wooden chair.
I tried setting up my new laptop when I got home and whilst waiting for that to do all its gubbins. I tried to install Office Pro on the PC. It seemed to install okay until I tried any of the programs. They kept freezing and eventually after accessing Outlook, the computer just shut itself down.
I was having major problems with it, and couldn't even uninstall office or any other programs. In the end it just froze completely for about 20 minutes.
I had to go for the drastic measure of resetting the entire pc back to factory settings.
So, I managed to do that this morning and then had to drive down to my Mum's to pick up some furniture, which then turned into lunch out.
I've now spent the rest of my day trying to put back on everything from my back-up drive.
This includes a seriously large amount of music, word docs, software and pictures.
I managed to save all my emails as well, which was damn lucky as I received the beta'd chapter 6 back last night.
Overall there's been no serious harm done, but it’s just been a lot of hassle that I didn't want to have to devote to this weekend. And as usual my inner OCD wouldn't let me rest until I had managed to get this sorted.
My next task was to get the laptop connected to the wireless network, which was more hassle.
Happily though my next task is just putting software on the laptop and then it's set up.
One groovy gadget on my laptop, I can Bluetooth from my phone to the laptop, and vice versa. A pretty neat little gizmo XD
Next thing I'm buying though is a decent computer chair, my back is really starting to suffer sitting on this hard wooden chair.