my lap top blues

[124JOE]

i opened an email from USPS saying cannot deliver
so i opened it up and there was a worm virus that ate my hard drive
i lost all my tech,pics,and info
im sooo pissed

[4uall]

With my little understanding of computers anything is retrievable. Going forward I always recommend an external hard drive that has the option of a constant back up. Sorry to hear the bad news

[124JOE]

i got into search and found pics but they may be infected,but i burned some to a disk
before i had it wiped clean.
i pulled out the old dell 256 ram and im here,untill i get the other one back
however the nehibors internet is spotty.so ill still have troubles when i get it back

thanks for the reply

[124JOE]

well its back and running,lots to reload and set up
all and all same thing
i did have some pics saved on a stick
and music on mp3 player
but still missing alot
pdf vids and text all gone

ho well hows your day?

[SergeantSavage]

That sucks! I experienced that same type of thing a few years ago. Sorry to hear it..

[124JOE]

thanks

[kmead]

Sorry for your experience.

I find it interesting how critical people are of cars and our Fiats in particular.

Even at their worst, Fiats were a paragon of reliability compared to most computers. People would never ever accept the level of failure and general reliability we accept from our computers.

If Microsoft made cars

At a recent COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.

I can't tell you the exact amount of time I have spent waiting for coworkers machines to reboot but it is a lot of work time, which my employer doesn't try to account for. I wonder how much profitability we lose out of due to this lost time over the whole company?

[124JOE]

yea that helps
and time

ok so i reupdated my iternet povider to explorer 8 and shut it down to go to work and
it said 106 updates to do
i just shake my head in discust

all of you should look into your add remove programs
and see these update lists
BUT dont remove any

[dmwhiteoak]

joe, it took me 20 min to upload a photo so no worries about me removing anything.