Comments | kyra_neko_rei: And the Lord said, "Hey, why don't I throw rocks at someone? It'll be fun!"

kyra_neko_rei

And the Lord said, "Hey, why don't I throw rocks at someone? It'll be fun!"

Jul 14, 2008 21:20

So . . . the attempts at system restore were unsuccessful. Dad, to his credit, spent a significant amount of time trying to undo the damage. His theory is a virus got in and corrupted the file(s) in question, and one of his antivirus programs deleted it/them. At present, his advice is to talk to my brother and ask him to fuss with the Windows ( Read more... )

financial complaining, real life sucks, computer woes, sulk post

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yuuzaiden July 15 2008, 03:04:09 UTC

Hey hon.
what's the name of the program, I don't know if I can find it , but i'll try.
other than that
Is there anything I can do to make you feel a bit better?

kyra_neko_rei July 16 2008, 04:50:37 UTC

Did I reply to this yet? I think I tried, and the internet stopped working. Not sure.

The program is the Microsoft Works Word Processor, and it's generally available for around $100, which is annoyingly price-gougey, as with the rest of the suite included it's $150 and this as part of a computer that cost me $500 or so . . . something's fishy there.

The sympathy has already made me feel better. Otherwise . . . fic? Fic always makes me feel better. ;)

zagzagael July 15 2008, 11:41:25 UTC

Babes, this is just horrid. I'm sorry you're having to deal with it - especially seeing as how it was kinda sorta thrust on you. I've learned - the hard way - to not let anyone touch my shit. *hugs* Did your files work out when you emailed them?

kyra_neko_rei July 16 2008, 04:58:37 UTC

I have no idea. They're sitting in cyberspace right now, safe and sound on two different email accounts, and I'm following them up with approximately everything else I've accomplished over the past three years; I'm going to try to just reinstall Works but the CD that it's on is the system restore CD, and I don't know whether it'll do just that; otherwise I'll just wipe the whole system clean and restore to original parameters, hence the email backups.

I haven't been able to tell if they work out yet, as I still lack a program to open them.

This will teach me to print stuff out every so often next time. I have fiction that's un-backed-up anywhere else and I DON'T want to lose it. *hopeful*

Linux to recover capybyra July 24 2008, 21:23:21 UTC

You need M$ office warez like fish need poodles.

OpenOffice:

http://openoffice.org

Will make you cry with joy compared to the crap of don'tWorks. As for file recovery? ANY of the "Livedemo" Linux projects will let you at least recover the files not corrupted.

Puppy Linux may make you quit windows entire:>

http://www.puppylinux.org/

Someone has a tutorial on using Knoppix for recovery too. In true serioucness- IF something in your life curses you to be stuck in windows hell??

PortableApps for Teh Win.

http://portableapps.com/

Simple explanation of PA - your"world" lives on a flash drive. Bork any 'puter you'r using and anything you've saved properly is safely on the flash drive!

Hope this helps.