It doesn't seem matter if they are good three or a BAD three.
On Monday and Tuesday, the tenth and eleventh, I was merrily going about my job, crawling around in the crawl space stringing wires for some new sensors in our Yogurt plant; the next day I had a hard time walking. Thinking it was just the arthritis acting up I treated it as I usually do, no big deal.
Last Sunday I was doing some editing of Hills 27, I'm sure everyone will be pleased about that. Being tired I set my laptop aside and went to bed, intending to continue in the morning. When I reactivated the laptop it didn't display the word file as I'd left it, instead the login prompt was on the screen. Meaning that Windows had done an update; we all love micro-soft, don't we? When I logged in I got a error message 'FILE C:/USER corrupted.' Yes, it's a Vista system and as everyone with vista knows almost everything is stored in the User directory. I still haven't been able to recover anything out of user and I'm almost ready, but reluctant, to wipe the drive and start over.
Remember the sore knee? It wasn't getting better, so last Wednesday I went to see my doctor. She had some X-Rays taken on Wednesday and scheduled an MRI for today. Now I have an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday with surgery possibly next Wednesday. Then there will be the recovery time of about a week. It's going to make the paycheck's pretty small, which will make feeding a former spouse hard.
The only good news is that I'll have the time to finish Hills chapter 27 and maybe chapter 28 (assuming I get replies beck from my proofreaders), not to mention mending the main sail for the Munchkin.
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Oh, jeeze :-(
I am sooo sorry to hear that. I fractured my growth plate when I was 13, and my knee's never been the same since. I really, really hope your surgery fares well and you make a full recovery!
The corrupted User folder is perplexing. I've literally never encountered anything like that, so I can't offer any advice other than possibly a system restore, but even that, I'm not sure would reverse the damage either :-(
System Restore
I tried doing a system restore to jump back to before the update. System restore won't run - it complains of corrupted files and that I must run chkdsk. Problem is chkdsk won't run either; the mud thickens. Like I said, we love (cough, hack) microsoft.
-Ow- :-(
This is more and more reminding me why I just recently dropped in the Windows CD on my Vista machine, even though that was a last resort too.
The one other thing I can think of is using the Windows CD to run a repair, and again, I have no idea if this might work or not, as I had to do a full format anyway with my Vista issues on said older PC :-(
I really hope you get it resolved without losing evrything though :-(
Vista is teh suxxorz
There are a multitude of reasons that Microsoft dropped Vista from the shelves pretty much the instant 7 came out. It has memory leaks, it uses too much RAM to BEGIN with, it randomly reorganizes/deletes/changes files, and many other things that add up to being one of the worst disasters in the history of computer OSes.
If you get a chance, either 7 or XP are much better options if you manage to back everything up first.
Melanie E.
I've heard an opinion
That Microsoft releases Windows the in following manner:
---First, they make a version that launches without too much fuss. They distribute it.
---Then, they run an open beta-test, with participants having to pay for the privilege.
---Once they gather data of the multitude of errors, they proceed to debug their product.
---And after all that, release the debugged version as a new version of Windows.
Hence, it is only worth to buy every odd version, with Vista being the covert beta for 7.
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Sympathy
Sorry, I'd be a bit more sympathetic if I could actually read this. Small pink script font on a tan-ish background (what it looks like to me) is very difficult to read if the reader has less than perfect color vision. Like me.
I'm not sure Vista is the worst OS Microsoft has ever released, but it is neck and neck with ME. I suspect the best thing to do, going by what I've read in the responses, is to take you HD and stick it in an XP machine as a secondary drive, that way you may be able to recover some of your work.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
Don't Know...
...whether you feel it's worth the effort after reading the replies. But highlighting the text and putting it in memory will allow it to come out in normal characters in Notepad or (AFAIK) any other text reader. That's what I did.
Eric
Too much trouble
When you are asking for help, be helpful to those you are asking?
hard to read
if anyone else had one heck of a time reading that fancy type face... just copy paste it to notepad or another word processor...
sorry to hear about your knees... did anyone say why you need surgery?
Dayna.
Oh No
1) I just enlarged the screen with the little button in the bottom of the right hand corner and could read it. Otherwise I could barely see it.
2)If you can get it to run anything, Malwarebytes may help. My wife's Vista system crashed over and it took 9 or 10 starts to get malwarebytes to run, but it finally did, and whatever it did, Vista runs now. Its crappy, and I hate it, but I'm really too lazy to mess with it since she makes to effort to update virus or run anything anyway. When it dies, she's just out of luck since there ain't no money for glasses much less a new boxen. Shoot, Norton got so overloaded fighting the stuff in patterns she saves that it finally got to where it would not run, not update or anything else. I wound up removing the Norton which runs fine on other systems and went to MS and got their crappy Defense system which probably just ignors the stuff in the saved files. Malwarebytes took 6 hours to run on her external drive, but cleaned it out also.
Penny
Hi
I hope your knee gets better quickly - sounds like the doctors know whats up and are doing their best.
As for Hills 28 - if you put it on GDocs or send it, then I can take a look.
Hugs
Karen
Hills 27/28
Well, at least one crumb of comfort from your situation is that as you mentioned you'll have the time to finish 27 and possibly start 28 while getting everything sorted, it suggests you'd taken the precaution of saving backup copies somewhere.
I personally didn't have too many problems with Vista before the laptop it was installed on broke (motherboard died, and it was ~2yrs old so out of warranty), apart from the standard Windoze habit of trying to download multi-megabyte updates every few days. Or at least it was OK after it had SP1 installed - Vista 'Gold' (the original release) was horrendous, but as usual with Microsoft, most of the most annoying bugs had been ironed out in the first Service Pack.
But it's always a good idea to take backups of important documents from time to time, so when Windoze does eventually get in a bad mood and require a reinstall, you haven't lost everything. Oh, and backing up the installers for any programs / drivers downloaded from the 'net is also a good idea, so you don't spend the first day after reinstalling Windoze getting the system back to where it was before the crash.
Now I'm using a desktop running Mandriva Linux - it's not that much more complicated than Windoze, doesn't need an antivirus/security suite, I choose when to install updates, oh yes, and the price tag was very appealing as well :)
(P.S. I did the copy / paste trick to read Penny's blog entry - it's not so much the colour as the fact that on my system at least, the script font is rendered too small to be legible)
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
My apologies to those I've offended.
Believe me, it was not intended. I didn't realize my color choices would cause so many people problems. To help the situation, as it has been described, I've dropped the font in the body of my blog back to the BC default. I've also tried several different colors for the text.
Are the new options better or worse?
Why even play with different colors, you may be asking yourself. The answer is simple, it's because I'm a colorful person.
As for my signature line, no apologies, I like it the way it is.
Colour choices
I personally don't have a problem reading the text in the colours you have chosen. However, as a professional web developer I know that picking colour combinations is something that needs to be done carefully in order not to cause trouble for readers with colour deficiencies.
I myself have the classic red/green problem, one of the most common. I can't tell the difference between the wiggly underlines in word for spelling/grammer, and I have to look very closely before I can work out which is which.
When picking colours there are mathematical formulas that can be used to determine if the combinations are readable. There is a very nice piece of free software that can check the colours for you and report on their suitability: http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.html
I find this very useful when picking colours to use on web pages. It will even show you what the colours would look like to colour blind individuals.
D.L.