Finding Contentment

Secret Sister & my absence

Ah, Vista. One day maybe I will be singing its praises, but for now I am having violent urges towards the program. When I had to buy a new computer a year ago, I was forced to get Vista as it was the only Windows program available in stores.

I have been having problems ever since. In all reality, it's not really Vista's fault. It's that all my programs weren't compatible. By now most of the programs I use have patches. Most.

About six months ago my computer crashed, and the technician said I had loaded a program that wasn't compatible with Vista. But who knew which program caused the problem, since most of my programs weren't compatible yet. I just kept going.

A couple of weeks ago my computer crashed again, and I went on a mission. Rather than having a technician tell me the same thing again, I decided to find the culprit. I would do a complete systems restore on my computer (back to its original factory settings) and then one by one download every program back onto it. Eventually, it would crash again, and I would eliminate a program and begin from the beginning. But I discovered the culprit. Actually, I already suspected the culprit but didn't want to admit it.

The bad guy was my beloved HP All-in-One printer, copier and scanner. Which utimately meant I had to buy a new printer. What did I get? Another HP All-in-One, of course. But this is an updated, fully compatible version and, unlike my old one, it has a lot of new features like a niffy LCD screen on the printer.

So I am happy with my new printer, but all that crashing and reloading took time and I was without my computer for awhile.

When I finally did figure everythng out my computer sat for awhile except for a couple of absolutely essential things, because I didn't have the heart to work with it after it dissapointed me so.

But I have slowly but surely began using the computer to once again manage my life (no lectures, please... I KNOW that's bad). Which eventually brought me back around to my blog. Maybe tomorrow I can get back around to beginnng to read everyone else's blogs again.

Unfortunately, unless you are a homestead blogger and listed in my friends (or are listed in my links), I may not find you again as I lost all my bookmarks in the Great Crash.

On another happy note, during my online absence my Secret Sister sent me some lovely lavender smelling, hand poured, soy, tea candles. Which I would have taken a photo of if I had my digital camera program reloaded....

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03:40 PM, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427

My husband the computer geeek is with you on your complaints of Vista!!! He hears from customers almost on a daily basis that are singing their....um....well definately not praises!!!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

Glad to have you back

10:53 AM, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 .. Posted by bodkin

So glad you are back with us! We have all had those computer problems and they are just so horrible.....I always say it is just pen and paper for me afterwards - LOL.

Come visit me if you have a chance. Here is my "address" in case you have lost it:

www.homesteadblogger.com/HoneyHillFarm/

Talk to you soon,
Shan