Ephemera

I had one of those seriously not fun evenings on the computer last night. I’m still not sure, but I may have paid the price for practicing unsafe computing. It was majorly pooched and may have been the result of viral interactions.

Basically, I didn’t have Explorer. Not Internet Explorer – I don’t use that – Windows Explorer. I had to figure out how to do anything without that. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to limp around and get it to do enough that I could work on fixing it.

The Windows Recovery System worked every bit as well as you would expect from Microsoft… It made things much worse, without improving the situation at all. After attempting to use that to correct the problem, I had no display at all. But I could tell from the sound that it still wasn’t working correctly. That added another 60 – 90 minutes as I figured out how to undo what it did.

To make a boring story shorter, I eventually got Explorer back and things mostly seem to be working. So far two programs have required quick and painless re-installs in the aftermath of this. I have no idea how many more things like that I’ll find before things are 100%. But if Murphy has anything to say about it, I’ll have brand new problems before I find and correct all of the ones I currently have.