Home and waiting...
Mar. 29th, 2005 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI'm home but Sheri's not due for another 30 mins so I'm cooling my heels waiting.
Work was interesting. I had a major fight with my computer. I think I won but I'm not sure it was a bloodless coup. I never shut the sucker down and rarely reboot. It's a desktop. Today it was just slow - sounded like it was grounding hamburger. Finally, I got to a semi stopping point and ran two different spyware programs and then rebooted.
Only she no boot back up... she stick in the loading up Windows state. Hard reboot. Same thing. Hmmmmmm Now, here's a nice little tribute to XP. I have no clue how to boot into Safe Mode. Never had to do it.
I call help desk. I'm pretty sure the help desk people are in India. They are paid a bonus for each time they use your first name and each time they give you an affirmative response. This dude's affirmative response was "of course.' "Susan, I can get that information for you, of course. Please hold. Thank you, Susan for holding, of course. Now, Susan, am I correct that you want the information on how to boot up in safe mode, of course? Susan, of course, are you still there?" Etc. Etc. Etc. 200 words (60 Susan's, 50 of's and 50 course's) to tell me F8.
I cranked her into 'last successful' and up she came. Ran both spyware programs again. Told her to rest up and I'd see her in the morning.
Work was interesting. I had a major fight with my computer. I think I won but I'm not sure it was a bloodless coup. I never shut the sucker down and rarely reboot. It's a desktop. Today it was just slow - sounded like it was grounding hamburger. Finally, I got to a semi stopping point and ran two different spyware programs and then rebooted.
Only she no boot back up... she stick in the loading up Windows state. Hard reboot. Same thing. Hmmmmmm Now, here's a nice little tribute to XP. I have no clue how to boot into Safe Mode. Never had to do it.
I call help desk. I'm pretty sure the help desk people are in India. They are paid a bonus for each time they use your first name and each time they give you an affirmative response. This dude's affirmative response was "of course.' "Susan, I can get that information for you, of course. Please hold. Thank you, Susan for holding, of course. Now, Susan, am I correct that you want the information on how to boot up in safe mode, of course? Susan, of course, are you still there?" Etc. Etc. Etc. 200 words (60 Susan's, 50 of's and 50 course's) to tell me F8.
I cranked her into 'last successful' and up she came. Ran both spyware programs again. Told her to rest up and I'd see her in the morning.
