Just to start off on a rant,
My windows 7 laptop broke down about 3 weeks ago, pain in the backside but served me very well (3 years good use for an acer) so I remembered I had an old desktop computer lying around somewhere, so I decided to pull it out connect it up and power it up.
In the back of my mind I was saying to myself this is not going to work, reaching for my nearly maxed out visa, the log on screen appeared I was thrilled,
Next step, remember my password that I set 4 years ago, lot of fun 50 attempts , but remembered it so logging on I did, desktop loaded all my old files, music, pictures, etc blast from the past
Next step was to set up an Internet connection which I was dreading because I get my Internet from an apple device, but way - hey it worked!!!!
Off subject last time I connected to the Internet I was using dial up (for the younger generation this involved making a 'data phone call' which cost an arm and a leg if you logged on before 6pm not even 5:59 and took roughly an hour to download a mp3 file)
yes I live in Ireland the slowest place in the world for adapting technology, And to make it more fun, my phone point was besides the front door ( thank you eircom ) so I had to make up a make shift extention lead with a joint because the run between the phone point and the pc, which was too long any way so anyone who tripped over the cable would disconect me and I have to repair the joint and re dial up.
Next step is very important
Back on subject, turn off Automatic updates (I cannot stress this enough) while I was reminiscing Over my old files my computer was installing updates in the background including windows sp3 mean while my computer must have sent a message to Microsoft saying this machine is 4 years old so destroy it so he gas to go out to buy a new one,
Anyway computer asked me to restart so like a good citizen I did, on reboot nothing changed but I noticed somehow my sound card mysteriously stopped working. Ok I said bound to be something going
wrong for me at this point, (never turned off auto updates at this point yet) now I walked away from my computer, the computer restarted it's self this time and now this update affected
some of my programs. Getting very annoyed, went to Microsoft support forums and suggested to in stall win service pack 3, when I went to install this SOLUTION it failed halfway restarted the system and now I was connected to the Internet but now somehow ip addresses work In my browser
but not website addresses ( I clarified my dns is ok thru cmd to all the geeks)
Hammer In my hand I was ready to give this machine a beating
But me being the bigger man I went out to buy a mac,
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