Let us pray...

[maristu]

I've killed it. bonibaru said I'd kill it, and I did. I feel so guilty... Ok, so it's not necessarily dead. More like in a coma (heh, I almost wrote comma :) ).

Yesterday I was merrily installing direct connect on my mom's computer, and it told me that it needed to restart in order to finish the installation. Those were his last words. I can't get Windows to start again. Not even on Secure Mode. I've tried everything. I have never seen a computer crash so brilliantly before...

I am now using the downstairs computer, on a dial-up connection. Gah. I'm not even thinking of installing or downloading anything to *this* computer. I don't want to be charged with double murder...

Apparently the HD is intact, I can access it through the DOS prompt. Which gives me hope that maybe reinstalling Windows will get it to come back to life. Because I have a few GB of episodes on it, and I *really* don't feel like downloading them all over again :-P Not to mention that I'd just deleted my mom's backup files from my online server (it was taking up 20MB of my web space, and I needed to upload stuff!), and she'll absolutely kill me if she loses that info. So yeah, I'll try reinstalling Windows today, and if that works, I'll burn everything in CDs and reinstall the entire machine. Because it sucks. It sucked even before it went into a coma. It had all this junk installed on it. Which makes me feel just a little less guilty...

God, I hate computers. Why on earth did I choose to get a degree in Computer Science? Why am I destined to work with these beasts till the day I retire? I suddenly believe in karma...

So, poll: Which version of Windows should I install when I remake the computer? 98? ME? XP?

Comments

[akacat.livejournal.com]

Whatever you do, *don't* install ME.

XP
The good: I don't have it, but I've heard it's as reliable as 2000 (that's what I run)
The bad: It reports things back to Gates, concerning the legality of itself (and possibly other Microsoft products.)

98 - Ok, but it has a tendency to crash. You probably already knew that.

If you can get a copy, go with 2000. You'll have a slight learning curve with your mom, but I've run as long as 3 weeks without a crash.

[maricats.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info!

I'm tending toward Win 98 SE, seeing as they're already used to it. They don't really use it for much other than accessing the 'net, so... I will install W2K on *my* computer. Although I'm not sure how well my games will run on it (yes, I'm a sucker for computer games. Love them to bits. Baldur's Gate is my current passion.)

Also, Norton is evil. That's what made the computer crash in the first place. I'm never letting anyone install it anywhere ever again! Gah!

I need a good antivirus...

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[akacat.livejournal.com]

I don't do computer games much, but my ex does and he's running 2k.

I have no suggestions on the anti-virus. McAfee and Norton always manage to piss me off before the 1 'free' year of updates is over, so at the end of the year I buy the other one for a year. Although, the latest version of Norton hasn't managed to screw things up, yet. It could just be that I'm on 2k.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

XP's not as bad as I thought it would be. But it is a big resource hog. However that computer should be able to handle it (if you dump all the other crap they had on it). I liked W2K very much too :)

I knew you were dead in the water when I didn't see you on IM last night.

[maricats.livejournal.com]

I was up til 2am trying to get the damn computer to restart. Grrr!

BTW, thanks for calming me down yesterday :)