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Windows Heck

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life, Software

On Easter Sun­day, my wife and I went to her sister’s for lunch¹. While we were there, the rel­a­tives sprang a cou­ple of bro­ken com­put­ers on me ask­ing me to fix them². Since we were get­ting really good grub³, I fig­ured I could at least take a look. Of course, nei­ther per­son with a bro­ken machine had any use­ful CDs with them, though one did run home to see if she had any there (nope). I ended up tak­ing both machines home and work­ing on them in my spare time. Today, I finally fixed one of them and I fixed it by fol­low­ing the instruc­tions I found in this arti­cle: Win­dows XP Crashed? Here’s Help. That worked really well in help­ing me fix the XP lap­top dumped on me, but the other machine is an older WinME desk­top. I’m still work­ing on that one, but for­tu­nately there’s no rush on the WinME box. Still I’m thrilled that I’ve got one of them fixed and can relax a bit⁴.

¹ We had an extremely yummy lamb roast.
² For the record, I’m a data­base guy these days not a sup­port tech. *sigh*
³ And free, never for­get free! *grin*
⁴ Yes, I’m still read­ing those wretched fun Wheel of Time books.

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