lil_shepherd

My new netbook (last May) was about the last in the country, so I'm not sure what I'd have done if someone had been playing silly buggers like that. I did con the shop into setting it up for me (to prove it was working right), so maybe I'd have escaped...

Even so, all the after-loading and preference-setting was hell. And its Windows 7 was different from the Windows 7 on my notebook. And the MS Office 07 (same licence) worked differently too... Boy, I'm grinding my teeth.

Deep, deep sympathy!

Luckily, I made a recovery disk before I was even really sure what had happened, and when I buggered Windows completely (and it doesn't seem to be as flexible as the Windows 7 Home on my last computer) I reloaded the factory settings. All this took ages and Ina feeding me a gin and tonic probably helped my nerves, but this seems to have worked. I now have Firefox, the most important of my bookmarks, have McAfee set up properly (though I normally use AVG, I will probably keep it for the next year or so) and will load Office and my backed up files today.
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How infuriating.

It was a very fraught Sunday. Monday is much better. All docs and photos now on the computer, plus Office 2007. This computer has a keyboard with a light under it - now that's disconcerting!