Win XP Users

Saturday, January 5th, 2002 at 3:34 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Paul Boutin said it perfectly. Paul E. kept telling me I needed a new computer even though mine was only about a year old. I didn’t want a new one for two reasons: (1) it’s a pain in the ass to move data over and reinstall all the programs, shareware, freeware, etc. and (2) it would be Win XP loaded.

The new PC couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Old PCy was freaking out thanks to the @home disaster…

Every time I attempted to go my frequently visited sites, I’d get the mother(#$* “page not found message” <not this particular one, but this certainly described what I was feeling during the last two weeks of 2001>.

When @home installed the cable modem, it really screwed with Old PCy’s settings. So bad, that Paul, a tech support and facilities manager, could not unravel it.

We set up New PCy and tried the data transfer. Old PCy was so stubborn and wouldn’t let the data go, but it finally relented thanks to Paul E’s super-human efforts.

Hello, XP. Right from the get-go, I didn’t like it. It took 24 hours to transfer all the data and yet, it missed a lot of files and transferred a lot of no-nos. It took removing Oldie’s guts (hard drive) and transplanting it into Newie to move the data.

After spending an entire day moving, installing, and getting Newie ready to work… it began to repeatedly crash around 9:00 PM. On top of that, in Internet Explorer, the damned sphere with @ on it showed up again where it should’ve been the four-square flag, the Windows logo. It was a bad sign because it meant the @home settings got loaded on Newie.

Paul E. did a diagnostic and reported that Newie was going to need a brain transplant (wipe out and reinstall). Before he could begin, I had to flipping back up and move everything AGAIN.

I go to bed muttering cuss words until I conked out. Come morning, Newie was breathing again and looking bright-eyed bushy-tailed. I knew what I had to do. Move and reinstall all over again. I had never been so happy to see the Windows logo in IE.

That was the worst of starting life with XP. The rest had actually gone smoothly with a few annoyances, but nothing worth blogging home about. The worst part is dealing with RealOne’s popups whenever I start up the system. I’ve yet to find the damned start up entry in the system or in its program. There are two other things that popup on start up that can’t be found. Mark my words, they will be gone (maybe not anytime soon)!

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