Computer Woes

I'm sure as any of you know by now, me and electronics have a love/hate relationship.

This rant is one of those times in which I fucking hate my PC, and the feelings are mutual.

Saturday night I was browsing the net as usual. I decide to drop by Youtube for a bit of
music, and notice that I don't hear anything. I thought that was a bit queer, because I was
listening to music earlier in the day. Well I look to my sound options and noticed that my
volume control button was no where to be found... So I restarted a few times, and the elusive
bastard still wasn't no where to be found, so naturally I did the most logical thing. Freaked the
fuck out.

I've had this problem happen to me before, and I never got my sound back, at all. Not until
I a new hard drive was put in. I asked my friends and they tell me to do a partial restore to
earlier in the day. So I break down and take their advice.

I reboot, hit F10, and figuring I'd be given a choice in restore points, I watch as the thing
goes into full on restore mode. Ctrl + Alt + Delete did nothing, typing "Exit" did nothing.
Short from unplugging the PC, I was hapless.

For an hour and a half I watched in hellish anxiety to await the damage that had been done.
I feared I had lost 6 years of information in one fell swoop. When it was all said and done, I
had my sound back, and thankfully none of my personal data was gone. So I went about
beginning toe restoration of my pc.

I deleted all the crap programs the manufacturer had put on the pc, and that's when I began
to notice how bad things really were. While removing software, I noticed that all of my security
updates were missing, and went about trying to reinstall them. That didn't work. I tried for about
four hours to get the damn thing to download the security updates, but it was no use. A bit of
chatting with my friend, he informed me that I needed the Windows Installer, which I downloaded.

It seems I can download my security updates once more, so that's a relief. but now I have a
number of programs that aren't acting right. Avast! 5 is one of them. I can't seem to install
the damn thing. It keeps giving me some error. Yahoo has been giving me this error every time
I log in.

"Runtime Error
Program: C:\Program Files\Yahoo\YahooMessanger.exe

R6025
- pure virtual function call"

and one of my games keeps telling me my hard drive is full, yet I have 76.5gb's of free space.
Aim seems to be working fine and I haven't checked WLM yet, so I'm not sure on that one. I
think Imp said it best the night before. "You and technology don't get along well, huh?" Too true
my friend, too fucking true.

I'll probably be out of commission for the next couple days as I frustratingly try to figure out what's
going on.

Birkin : 0 Technology : 9001

W.Birkin wrote:

Well I look to my sound options and noticed that my
volume control button was no where to be found...

This happens with my Network thingy and my Volume doohicky all the time.

I never understand what the hell is going on with my computer, but by some sheer luck, I usually get it fixed.

I just need to be as manly as Kamina, an then the thing will work better.

Unfortunately, I'm lacking tattoos and wicked shades.

If your volume disappears, right click the right part of your toolbar and click "show system icons".

Guaranteed to work on Vista, untested on other OS.

Me and m laptop have a love-hate relationship. It will obey me if i repect it. I must sacrifice an orphan the first suday of every month in it's name, and in return it must work for me. If i i do what it asks and it still refuses to work for me i hit it with my mighty pimp hand and make it my bitch for the day.

If the icon simply vanished because it was inactive, then it should have returned on the
initial reboots. It didn't though. *sigh* My computer is gradually installing more security
updates from Windows, but it's still giving me a lot of grief.

My pc is unprotected atm, I've got no antivirus software installed and Avast! refuses to
install properly now, and I have no idea why.

Alot of the mainstream anti virus shit dont work and causes more problems then solves in my opinion. If i have errors i do the mighty system restore.

Yea, well. It's because of the mighty system restore that I'm in my current predicament.

System restore hath failed?

BLASPHAMY!!

Demon Eyes Kyo wrote:

System restore hath failed?!

Ya Rly.

... you did it wrong...

In soviet russia system restore dont fail you, you fail system restore.


but no seriously good luck with that man sounds like your up shit creek without a paddle

Demon Eyes Kyo wrote:

... you did it wrong...

In soviet russia system restore dont fail you, you fail system restore.


but no seriously good luck with that man sounds like your up shit creek without a paddle

and a hole on the boat, and I happen to be coprophobic.

Demon Eyes Kyo wrote:

... you did it wrong...

In soviet russia system restore dont fail you, you fail system restore.


but no seriously good luck with that man sounds like your up shit creek without a paddle

*Snorts with laughter, shooting tea out of his nose~<3*

lol i didnt think it was that funny till trigger quoted it and laughed about his nasal leakage