I have spent the last hour and half fighting with my laptop to get it to start up properly. I finally gave up and decided to reformat it, and it won't let me. I keep getting some stupid error message about dismounting my volume or something like that, and it will not reformat! John finally had the idea to go in and disable everything on the start menu, because that is where it was hanging up every time. That's working for now. So, after an hour and a half of wrestling with Windows, the hideous dialup connection is killing me. I'm supposed to work from home tomorrow morning, and that is going to be a complete nightmare.
As frustrating as this is, I spent a bunch of time today reminding myself that I have a good life, even with multiple malfunctioning computers. I'm lucky enough to own more than one computer. I'm lucky enough to be in a position that I can threaten to buy a new laptop if I can't get this one working to my satisfaction. And for that matter, I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home from time to time, even if I have to use dialup. So, I'll try to quit bitching and be grateful.
w00t!
yea mac!
It seems that most of your computer problems occurred when you switch to dial-up so I'm wondering if you have entertained the idea that maybe it is something to do with the ISP. I mean, maybe you got a virus or something else crazy happened via the dial-up connection...just wondering!
I keep threatening to buy a Mac. So far I haven't followed through.