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fai_dust FYI if you track my journal or otherwise arrived at this through a direct link to this post (as opposed to on the main page or your friend page), I've put all the semi-OT explanations/ramblings behind strategically-placed cuts. If you wish to avoid my lunicy, feel free to read it on my journal's main page. ^_^
*chirping* What fun! My laptop is still as slow as honey from a squeeze bottle stored in the fridge (I refuse to use the 'molasses' comparison until I use it in anything other then the German cookies I used to make every Christmas with my father (which is one of my few positive memories with him, but that's not in any way relevant)), something that began when my McAfee expired and should have been a large, blinking sign that I needed to reformat my computer, since I know it should be done every six months anyhow and have yet to do so since I got it a little over a year ago. And I still can't log into LJ.
- Once I calmed down from my spazing snit-fit/freakout at my computer and technology in general, I realized the smart thing would be to back up everything to avoid the crap I went through last year when my computer failed and I had to spend $80 to have an incompident electronics store chain that should know what they're doing pull everything off it, fail at transfering the data to an extrenal 1T drive (also purchased from them and unopened until they used it) three times before managing to get it right and by that point at least half on my files were too fragmented to be saved.
- I am ever so greatful right now to (for? about? which is is right word here?) the guy in my program at school who bought me a new external drive last month. I know technically he was the one that caused it to break, but it was an honest accident and if it hadn't been a piece of crap to begin with, a one foot drop onto a thick carpet wouldn't have caused it to break.
- After spending all day backing up everything on my computer, at around 8:30 I tried to reformat it. But guess what? I couldn't, because even though right-clicking on the C drive in 'My Computer' gives the option to format, when I pick it, it says I can't because it's where my opperatig system is installed, so I need to reset it with the opperating system software CD in.
- now, correct me if I'm wrong, because I've only bought two laptops in my life, but between those two and my mother's, when purchasing such a computer, it comes with the opperating system (in this case, Windown Vista, which is a hell unto itself) already installed and they do not give you a disk. .
- Now, when I bought my current laptop, late Sept. last year, Windows 7 was to come out, like, a week later, so I was able to get a free CD-Rom of it, but as far as my computer knows, I don't.
which is true, because the cardboard case-thing that says Licensed Windows Software in huge font across it which I've thought was W7, as it turns out, is Microsoft Office. (The bursary I got for the computer also gave me money for Office, but I had to buy&download it online and then order the CD 'if I so chose to do so' as though the company couldn't comprehend why I would want the disk to avoid having to re-purchase it in the future) So I must have it somewhere, but God knows where it is in my house *
Oh, and I also can't log into my school website, which is just added awesome, because I have an on-line test Friday.
*chirping* What fun! My laptop is still as slow as honey from a squeeze bottle stored in the fridge (I refuse to use the 'molasses' comparison until I use it in anything other then the German cookies I used to make every Christmas with my father (which is one of my few positive memories with him, but that's not in any way relevant)), something that began when my McAfee expired and should have been a large, blinking sign that I needed to reformat my computer, since I know it should be done every six months anyhow and have yet to do so since I got it a little over a year ago. And I still can't log into LJ.
- Once I calmed down from my spazing snit-fit/freakout at my computer and technology in general, I realized the smart thing would be to back up everything to avoid the crap I went through last year when my computer failed and I had to spend $80 to have an incompident electronics store chain that should know what they're doing pull everything off it, fail at transfering the data to an extrenal 1T drive (also purchased from them and unopened until they used it) three times before managing to get it right and by that point at least half on my files were too fragmented to be saved.
- I am ever so greatful right now to (for? about? which is is right word here?) the guy in my program at school who bought me a new external drive last month. I know technically he was the one that caused it to break, but it was an honest accident and if it hadn't been a piece of crap to begin with, a one foot drop onto a thick carpet wouldn't have caused it to break.
- After spending all day backing up everything on my computer, at around 8:30 I tried to reformat it. But guess what? I couldn't, because even though right-clicking on the C drive in 'My Computer' gives the option to format, when I pick it, it says I can't because it's where my opperatig system is installed, so I need to reset it with the opperating system software CD in.
- now, correct me if I'm wrong, because I've only bought two laptops in my life, but between those two and my mother's, when purchasing such a computer, it comes with the opperating system (in this case, Windown Vista, which is a hell unto itself) already installed and they do not give you a disk. .
- Now, when I bought my current laptop, late Sept. last year, Windows 7 was to come out, like, a week later, so I was able to get a free CD-Rom of it, but as far as my computer knows, I don't.
which is true, because the cardboard case-thing that says Licensed Windows Software in huge font across it which I've thought was W7, as it turns out, is Microsoft Office. (The bursary I got for the computer also gave me money for Office, but I had to buy&download it online and then order the CD 'if I so chose to do so' as though the company couldn't comprehend why I would want the disk to avoid having to re-purchase it in the future) So I must have it somewhere, but God knows where it is in my house *
- I freely admit my room is beyond a mess; I have too much stuff and no place to keep it, so when 'clean' there are piles of CDs, binders, ect. on the floor and it is not very big (with my dresser, bed, chest (also serving as my bedside table) and bookshelves built-in around my window (do not provide as much storage as you would think, the windows take up half of the wall), the free floor space is about 5 by 6.8 feet (I'm guessing the .8, knowing my armspan is a little over 5ft. and the width of the room is over 6 -probably over 6.5- but no way 7). Not that I have the right to complain, after sharing a room with my sister for three years before we moved here, I am just happy to have my own space and I know a lot of people don't have what I do), so all it takes is for me to stumble once and everything is knocked over.. So unless anyone happens to know how to reformat my computer without needing to re-install Windows, I'm screwed.
- But there is no guarntee that it is even in there, because no only does my mother often forget to give me my mail (sticking it on whatever surface she idly puts it down on so that it gets shoved to the side and forgotten -not that I can say I'm not as forgetful, but there is a reason we agreed she would get the mail, because this way it wouldn't happen-), but when she's tidying up, she also has a tendancy to put my things 'away' (again, I shouldn't be leaving my things in the living room, but that's what happens with families; when there are four people living in a house, if each person even forgets to put two or three things away a week, it adds up. And she does the same thing. It's just what most people do) without telling me she's doing it, and if I ask her a few days later if she's seen it, she reminds me she's not my keeper. Odds are, if she did find it somewhere, she put it downstairs on the computer desk, which means I will never see it again because either my brother copted it or it got thrown out when she made him clean up the room last month and the lazy bastard he is, he 'cleaned up' by setting aside everything that was his and threw out everything else that was there (on the floor -which is fair- but also on and in the desk.)
Oh, and I also can't log into my school website, which is just added awesome, because I have an on-line test Friday.
