Yesterday after coming back from Boston I decided to fix my computer. It had been running slowly and randomly giving me the blue screen of death for the past few months, and I decided that a complete reformat and reinstall was the way to go. More fool I.
I backed everything up and reformatted the partition, and then reinstalled Windows XP. After a few hours of various installation stuff, I was prompted to log in. Once logged in the screen went blue. Not the blue screen of death, but a lovely robin's egg blue background with nothing on the desktop. I had a mouse pointer but nothing to point to. The mouse buttons did not work. CTRL-ALT-DEL did work so I was able to access the task manager, but that didn't help me any.
I'm going to try to reinstall the reinstall tonight, but I don't have high hopes. This kickstarted my decision to purchase a new computer, but it will be two weeks before getting it.
If anyone has mad computer skillz and can help me out, please let me know.
And heck, if anyone has a spare laptop I can borrow so I won't be computerless for two weeks, that would be much appreciated as well!
Lesson learned: Don't mess around with the computer - I'm not smart enough for it.
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Oh no! But you're my foreign tech support! How can I trust you now?
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