Virtual revolution
What do you do when your computer revolts?
Me? I fight back. No pacifism for moi.
I call helpline after helpline sitting at my desk, talking to or typing to technician, agent, consultant, interventionist, one after another for hours on end. My cell phone sizzled. I drive to purchase software, download, upload and sideways load. I make sure all my vital organs — I mean documents — are both emailed to myself and on my handy-dandy flash drive. I Google when it lets me, curse when it doesn’t and contemplate the relative cost of repair (twice since January) to getting a new computer.
And then I wake up in the morning and it’s fine. As in every single site loads. Even your blogs (which did not happen yesterday), even mine. Everything runs Olympic fast.
Was it was one of those trick retreats? Is the next attack being planned by a little tiny cyber army inside my laptop as I hurry to read and comment and Google while I can?
Time will tell.
LOL! Consider it a lucky wake up call. At least that’s how I think of jolt’s like that, that remind me my book’s aren’t saved up to date on my flash drive. and hehehe! Love the email trick too! It’s great!
LOL! don’t mind me… I’m apparently apostrophy proned today! LOL! usually I have a comma sprinkle… hmm..
ACK! APOSTROPHE!!! Grr.. alright, i’m giving up. Anymore typos, consult my evil twin.
I did the same for most of last year. If I calculate correctly, the amount of money spent could have bought me two new computers and hire a guy to transfer all my data!
Instead I waited until the thing finally said, ‘I cant do it anymore!’, and flashed a blue screen at me.
Jenni – ha! I will keep an eye out for your twin!
Melissa – The dreaded blue screen…I don’t want to send those vibes out. Today I’m just enjoying the bliss of normalcy. But you know, that never lasts long.
Amy
I will do ANYTHING not to call. In fact, I just did a complete wipe and recover to start fresh so that my virus program would work, (taking about 10-15 hours to reinstall my programs, etc.) rather than call.
(Okay, it wasn’t just the virus program that didn’t work: I’d done enough tinkering and trying out programs that it did need a clean slate to get things back to normal.)
Darn computers anyway. My desktop is just limping along right now.
Thankfully, my husband is also a computer geek. Any computer problems are his department. If left to my own devices, the minute anything went wrong I’d shut down, head to Staples, and buy a new one. Yup, I’m pathetic.
I dread the day my computer dies. I backup fairly frequently, but it still makes me nervous…
Get an independent little hard drive! It gives me peace of mind. Remember that weird etch-a-sketch white screen of death I got a few weeks ago? Two days later, everything just came back up as normal, but now I’m skeert to turn off the puter in case it happens again. Maybe a cyber virus going around? Glad yours was only a 24-hour bug.
On a good note, there are most excellent deals around now (Best Buy) for new puters under $500 with 12 months no interest…just in case you need that info. And that includes a 2 or 3 year warranty.
Oh, I so hate any computer problems. Any at all.
Ugh. Don’t get me started on computers. I’ve been to war with the darn machines so many times I deserve a badge of honor. Geek Squad, calling on local computer nerds, hard drive wipes, buying a new system–you name it, I’ve done it. *sigh* Maybe I’m just really unlucky.
LOL @ the “cyber army” line. I got this image of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds but with computers attacking people instead. That is both hilarious and creepy to me at the same time.
So frustrating! Which reminds me, I’ve got new data to back up.
Wanted to tell you I read Sundays at Tiffany’s in one evening. If I’m to be honest, the writing fell flat for me, but the story itself was really charming. It goes down on the list of those I wish I’d thought of.
I’ll admit. Before I call anyone, I go down the route of typical human behaviour. Meaning, I can fix it. I start clicking, turning things on and off. Uninstall, reinstall, red X boxes, firewalls, exploring and clicking where no non-techie geek human should go like properties and computer code. I can’t restrain myself during such desperation. I click with abandon and ask the computer gods for forgiveness later.
So once I’ve clicked everything there is to click, then visited every forum group for help (cross checking meanings of geek words via google) then going to Youtube to watch the most boring help video’s known to man………..I’ll cry in defeat and call a support site.
There probably is a better way, for all of us~
Rebecca