Monosyllabic Manifesto » computer problems http://www.scotthough.com Ponderings and rants with the odd link tossed in for good measure. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:02:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Broken Windows http://www.scotthough.com/broken-windows/ http://www.scotthough.com/broken-windows/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:07:11 +0000 Scott Hough http://www.htmlfaq.info/?p=17 About 3 weeks ago I broke Windows. I was trying to manually remove a trojan since I couldn’t find a program to remove it. Adware/Spyware removal programs and my virus scan program couldn’t fix it. I thought I had backed up the registry, obviously I didn’t.

Took me 3 weeks to stop procrastinating and get my system up and running. After windows was reinstalled, it took me 9 hours to get Windows where I wanted it. I hope to never need to do that again.

]]> http://www.scotthough.com/broken-windows/feed/ 0 Recycling Windows http://www.scotthough.com/recycling-windows/ http://www.scotthough.com/recycling-windows/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:24 +0000 Scott Hough http://www.htmlfaq.info/?p=12 Well last night I had a scare. I noticed I had a full recycle bin so I went to empty it. It popped up with a dialog box asking “Do you want to delete WINDOWS?” That totally caught my off guard. I went into the recycle bin and it had NO files in it at all. At this time I started AVG to hunt for any viruses. Nothing. I then tried the disk clean up wizard and got nowhere. I then tried a long shot and it worked. I logged out of my windows account and logged back in.

]]> http://www.scotthough.com/recycling-windows/feed/ 1 Hooray for computer problems! http://www.scotthough.com/hooray-for-computer-problems/ http://www.scotthough.com/hooray-for-computer-problems/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:47:34 +0000 Scott Hough http://www.htmlfaq.info/?p=11 Well today was a nice one at work. I clocked in and was told not to log into the computer because the server was down. We all sat there for 2 hours and 50 minutes before they told us to go home.

Apparently the calls we make are routed through the server and through T1 lines. From what I overheard the server couldn’t connect with the T1 lines and Qwest couldn’t come out till tomorrow to fix it. They did what they could and couldn’t get the server working.

As much as I would have liked to stay the whole shift so my paycheck is as big as it can be, I’m happy we got sent home. I just hope the server is working Friday so I don’t have another day off.

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