I'm not sure why Windows Vista feel that, even though I've set up my updates to be manual, if I click the "remind me later" option, it decides to install them without my permission at some point while I'm not at my computer.
It seems every time it does so, something goes wonky.
Before, it's lost files that I'd left open, it's developed a glitch that wouldn't let it come out of hibernation, and last night, well, I'm not sure what the hell it did.
Initially, it wouldn't come out of hibernation. Fine. A restart fixed that usually.
I restarted.
Monitors weren't working. Not even a BIOS screen. Weird. Graphics card must have gotten loose. No idea how, but whatever. Pulled it out, reseated it. Oh good. We have visual! Let's restart.
Windows freezes when starting.
WTF?
Restart with last known configuration.
Freezes on startup.
Restart in safe mode. Everything works fine and sure enough, it apparently updated without asking me last night while I was at a play. Fine. I'll just restore back to before it went stupid.
Restore.
Freezes on startup.
Bah. Back to safe mode.
Can't load safe mode.
Restart. Safe mode works.
Restore to a month ago (when after 5 months of owning Vista, it finally recognized I had a sound card installed and found drivers for it). Restart.
Windows freezes on startup.
Dammit all. Going to have to reinstall Vista.
Grab CD and begin install.
Freezes on install on final step after an hour.
Restart and pray it was secretly finished.
Starts up.
And freezes.
Restart install.
Install completes.
Now to find drivers for everything and reinstall all my plug ins, bookmarks, codecs, programs and everything else....
Monday, October 05, 2009
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