To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: "ronwaldyo" 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

-+- In trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com, "Tim Morgan" 
wrote:
> I feel like I've just survived my own personal
> Eugenics Wars...
>
> After spending over 40 hours over the past three
> weeks with Dell and HP tech support, we figured out
> that in order for my new scanner to work I had to do
> a full format and reinstall. HP's new software is
> touchy with modifications made to XP and any previous
> scanner on the system would mess things up royally.
> Even cleaning the registry doesn't do anything
> meaninful. So, I spent the past three days backing
> up files, and did the FFR.
>
> Said procedure has been completed, and thankfully,
> the bloody scanner works.
>
> I now have about 10 gigs worth of software to reinstall.
>
> I bloody hate computers.
>
> I like what they can *do* when they work, though...
>
> Tim

Tim, I am with you 1000%!  I decided (like a fool) to add a new and larger
hard drive to my PC and upgrade Internet Explorer. (I had been using IE 4)
And because of that I have had no ability to access the Web on my PC. 
Fortunately my AOL account still functioned and my wife was nice enough to
let me use her laptop from time to time for Web access.

After four days of pounding my head against the wall and thinking up
various ways of condemning Bill Gates to eternal pain and suffering, my
wife called her brother who is a PC tech support guy and discovered this
was all the result of some oddball registry thing that I nor anyone else
who doesn't have binary code running through their veins would ever in a
gazillion years figure out!

We had to blow away all the network and communications stuff, delete
several very important looking parts of the registry and then had AOL's
software reconfigure all that crud.  If you're thinking I was just a wee
bit tense during this operation, you bet!

But now, so far... (we're talking Windows here, folks, I don't take nothing
for granted when Gates is involved) things seem to be working and Internet
Explorer 6 is finally accessing web pages.

And now I'm gonna back this sucker up before something else breaks.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm



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