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28/02/2005
More Computer Updates
The new mouse really does seem to have solved the problem. The lesson from all that? Remember to look for the simple solutions first. In the meantime it's been a whole weekend reloading everything on this computer and all the problems associated with that. Huge downloads. So much time taken up. I should have been typing for my assignment for the Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, but I have weeks to go on that so I wasn't too worried. Windows Update. My Win98 disc not working. Luckily cleaning it really thoroughly did the trick. I'm thinking I really should invest in Ghost or something. Make life a lot easier. Some of my documents I uploaded to my web space that I get with my internet account and then downloaded again, and some I burnt to a cd when the computer was behaving. I forgot my bookmarks again. I always do. I should also invest in a checklist for when I have to reload everything! Not that I actually had to reload this time, but sometimes I really do. And the conflict I always have when I load my video and sound drivers. I always solve it, but I can never remember how I did it last time. I have to disable the dos emulation parts. It always stuffs up my display and takes me half a day to work it out.
The last thing I had to do was get my email working. I'd click on the icon and get an illegal operation. MSOE.dll. I go through the knowledge base at MS for a solution and read every article that seems relevant. At least I didn't try the most complicated solutions first, no editing of the registry. I found the solution just before I went to bed last night, on the last page that I'd downloaded: this will happen if any of the email boxes are marked read only! And hadn't I burned the email .dbx files onto a cd? And don't and files burned onto a cd, when copied back on the hard drive automatically become read only? And don't I already know that? Of course.
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