Damn it`s all dusty and cobwebby in here, I thought I would post here (in the hope of getting some serious cuddling attention
, rather than start another thread).
The last two-three weeks of my life - Firstly, my Father lost his battle for life, we bury him Thursday week, the second very close family member i`ve lost to that bastard disease this year, the other being my beloved, angelic 4 year old grandson Mackenzie.........
My daughter Dan (Danielle) truly is an inspiration, how the hell she is coping with this so well is beyond me, here`s to you and Jay princess for keeping it together after an Earth shattering experience.
A few weeks ago I bought a 2nd hand laptop for £250, a Toshiba Satellite E-Series chip with windows 7, 4 gig of RAM, etc, etc, I was using it one night when the cursor started to behave weird, going in the opposite direction to where it should have gone, a few seconds later some weird icons appeared on my desktop, I right clicked on one as to delete it, then it multiplied, so I tried to drag one into the recycling bin and every icon on my desktop was linked together, I rebooted and it looked like the screen resolution was 60 x 60 pixels and 2 colours, no icons had names under them, and when I clicked start there was nothing there, then poof, blue screen of death, I tried to restart but nothing, I couldn`t even get into BIOS, I gave it to a good friend of mine to look at and he said basically everything was fried, and it would far outweigh it`s worth to replace everything, how the hell can a virus or whatever do this?, I know if write to BIOS is enabled they can change settings like increasing the voltage etcetera, but meh, it`s f*&%£d now.
Then my fridge freezer broke, and washing machine.
So, I turned P.C. on and was greeted by this... Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM, so I logged onto the recovery console and tried to repair the windows installation, after several possible remedies including a very long drawn out affair of copying the registry etcetera and using system restore, which failed abysmally, I conceded defeat and had to format and reinstall windows, in doing so losing around 4 years worth of stuff.
Today, I turned P.C. on, no internet, I rang MY ISP up and after the normal mandatory possible remedies it was assessed that the wifi part of the modem was fubared, but, I was reassured that whilst waiting till my new modem turned up (Friday) I could use an Ethernet connection, tried, didn`t work, tried using my mobile, both the wifi and tethering failed, so, trying to keep my patience I turned on the old laptop I had restored, np`s whatsoever in connecting via wifi, so I thought I would use the laptop`s USB wifi adapter on my P.C. installed drivers, still no connection. trawled the net on the laptop forever looking for answers, gave up, reinstalled windows once again, now it`s working.
I`m no IT boffin, far from it, but in all my years of having a P.C. there has never been a virus I didn`t beat or a software/hardware problem I couldn`t solve, in the past few weeks i`ve been steam-rolled three times
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I need a cuddle please
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) wouldn`t work here, but, what will however, is - Your most embarrassing story ever, if this works and the night goes on with stories getting more and more outrageous by the minute upto the extent that when people read what they revealed in a few days time they will be cringing for a very long time to come, including me, if, there is enough input for me to step forward and reveal mine, which I will nigh on guarantee will not be beaten, not even close, but that however is entirely down to you guys and your stories.
Could so totally relate to it, back in my younger days
