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The virus led to extensive use of Faildows Security Essentials, which wound up causing software conflicts...with Faildows. So since I was having compatibility issues ANYWAY, I installed my favorite free antivirus (AVG).
AVG reckoned I also had disk and compatibility issues, so I set its defrag. function to dealing with them.
The defrag.* somehow wiped out all of my system save points.
And then this bagbiting OS did its pointless "restart whether you like it or not!" thing...
and then couldn't start up again.
I spent two hours on the phone with tech. support yesterday. It was your quintessential 21st-century tech. support experience: the guy was in Bangalore, and was clearly working from a script (although he spoke quite good english and was reasonably competent and non-annoying); I spent forever running up cell phone charges while the computer ground away through various processes; and in the end, nothing worked and I was reduced to going back to what I knew how to do anyway, viz.: nuke my hard drive and restore to factory settings. There goes my music collection.
So I am now Reinstalling All The Things, when I should really be working, given that I have a self-imposed ship date for the Self-Branding module this evening. When I have also promised to go see a play. gah.
At least life is exciting?
* To give it the benefit of the doubt, it may have been a virus. I'm not sure either AVG or Faildows caught them all: certainly SOMETHING was redirecting all my web searches...
The virus led to extensive use of Faildows Security Essentials, which wound up causing software conflicts...with Faildows. So since I was having compatibility issues ANYWAY, I installed my favorite free antivirus (AVG).
AVG reckoned I also had disk and compatibility issues, so I set its defrag. function to dealing with them.
The defrag.* somehow wiped out all of my system save points.
And then this bagbiting OS did its pointless "restart whether you like it or not!" thing...
and then couldn't start up again.
I spent two hours on the phone with tech. support yesterday. It was your quintessential 21st-century tech. support experience: the guy was in Bangalore, and was clearly working from a script (although he spoke quite good english and was reasonably competent and non-annoying); I spent forever running up cell phone charges while the computer ground away through various processes; and in the end, nothing worked and I was reduced to going back to what I knew how to do anyway, viz.: nuke my hard drive and restore to factory settings. There goes my music collection.
So I am now Reinstalling All The Things, when I should really be working, given that I have a self-imposed ship date for the Self-Branding module this evening. When I have also promised to go see a play. gah.
At least life is exciting?
* To give it the benefit of the doubt, it may have been a virus. I'm not sure either AVG or Faildows caught them all: certainly SOMETHING was redirecting all my web searches...
