Re: [book_talk] have been away off and on, mostly off, trying to fix computer situation.

  • From: "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:03:35 +1100

Hi Audrey, it appears you have been having quite a hard time with technoligy 
lately. I know a bit about computers however allot of what you have said 
goes straight over my head. I am running windows ExP home and just did an 
update yesterday. Now you have me wondering if it has caused issues with my 
computer too. I have been trying to play a Solitaire game ever since the 
upgrade and I was thinking it was something wrong with the game so I tried 
to remove it and re install it. However the computer froze during the re 
install and doing the normal control, alt, delete had no luck so I have to 
turn the computer off with the power button. I was lucky however because the 
computer would still work so I was able to save and close the rest of the 
things I had opened it was just the instalation that froze.

Well I have written to the maker of the game and if I have no luck with them 
then I will see if my brother has any ideas. My brother is in I T so 
hopefully he will have the fix for me.

Well better go I have a few things still to do before going to bed and I 
have a trial walk tomorrow with a possible new seeing eye dog.

Bye for now.
From Shaz.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Audrey" <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [book_talk] have been away off and on, mostly off, trying to 
fix computer situation.


| Wish I had not taken the first 2014 update tuesday.
| My computer is a mess y'all!  It is driving me crazy since the January
| Microsoft Windows updates!
| The driver they sent out, must have been corrupted or something.  Sadly I
| cannot successfully put any drivers back now,
| without having a mismatch with what bios says and whatever the new driver,
| or even the ones that first came with the Operating System disk say.
| I can get the computer semi functional, but if I let the update run again,
| or try to install even the original driver back on, as soon as some 
program
| tries to use
| VGA, like for instance the Window Eyes demo, the whole computer freezes
| again, and has to be hard powered off.  It was sadly compacting mail 
folders
| the last
| time it froze, and while it seemed like things were okay after I finally 
got
| it safe rebooted and was able to remove the drivers again, later, after I
| created a backup of the Outlook Express mail, I realized about 6 folders
| weren't working.  It claims to have a massive amount of stuff in the book
| talk folder, and that it cannot display it due to not enough space, or
| memory, possibly, but the other 5 folders seem to be empty.  I'm now
| noticing the newer Book Talk mail is staying in the inbox instead of going
| to the Book Talk folder, even though the rule has not been changed.  I'm
| guessing it is as though there is a space problem, even though there is
| plenty of space, but have now noticed there is perhaps way more items in 
the
| Book Talk folder than were in there before.  I'm wondering if in the power
| shut down all the empty folders following the book talk one, threw their
| contents into the Book Talk folder, making it be extremely loaded with 
mail.
| There are a few folders after that, which must not have started the
| compacting process in the power off, and stayed normal.  I didn't notice 
the
| missing folder stuff until after I had cleared the recycle bin, of the bak
| files that were created during the compacting that froze.  I did that 
right
| before making a new dbx set of files to save to a new external hard drive.
| This is my first external hard drive by the way.  One terrabyte Toshiba,
| $69, at Walmart.  I googled around trying to figure out how to work it.
| Finally had to shut the computer down to safely remove it.  I hope I will
| actually be able to use it for putting things back without total chaos
| later.  I was just trying to save what I could before attempting to get 
some
| working drivers again.  I'm afraid to take the February update, even 
though
| I was hoping it might fix where the Jan., one went awry.  I am not finding
| microsoft acknowledging that it did go awry any where, but tonight I met
| three guys walking home and asked if they had it happen, and one of them
| told me that yes he also had the same thing happening.  It's kind of like
| you can't get your computer to fully reboot enough so you can get to the
| place where you can restore or remove the graphics drivers.  It took 
several
| tries.  I didn't have any back up drivers to rollback to.  So any feedback
| is having to trickle in from cell phones or other operating systems.  I'm 
on
| XP Pro sp3.  I hear the most stable drivers are 314.22, but how to make 
that
| coincide with how Nvidia lists its drivers is a mystery to me.  It also
| doesn't match the VGA that the bios says.  I went to Gateway, and 
downloaded
| and saved some drivers, but it is not clear if those would match the bios
| either.  Finding a driver to match the bios is what I need to do, but it
| seems like a needle in a haystack.
| Jaws 10 only partially works.  I keep getting the video intercept error
| again, every reboot.  I tried a method for fixing that from the freedom
| scientific site but it is not going to work without a VGA driver installed
| anyway.
| I've tried repairing Jaws 10 to its latest update, uninstalling it and
| reinstalling.   Jaws doesn't read in notepad any more, except for calling
| out individual letters as I type.  Works in wordpad.  Does not read 
anything
| it should read with the reading keys, like EULA's on new software or
| updates.    Have checkmarked wrap under format, and gone over settings.
| Scrolling seems to be doing something strange too,  Need to use Window 
Eyes
| for the last part of paying Reliant Energy bill!  Jaws can't ever land on
| that last submit button.  I would always switch to Window Eyes to do that,
| and now it can't.  It seemed to take 3 hours for the new external hard 
drive
| to save everything.  I hope it's really gonna work.  There were no
| instructions.  I only wanted to save Documents and Settings but it seems 
to
| have saved Everything!  Everything but the missing mail folders,one of 
which
| was business receipts, and new account set ups.  Another was cousins and
| uncles communications.  Those are gonna be hard to reconstruct, but
| hopefully possible.  I had intended to make a separate boot disk, and use
| the external hard drive like a storage facility.  I hope it doesn't try to
| auto reboot, as though it, is the regular hard drive.
| I'm rambling all over the place I know.  Hoping other clues might surface.
| Sorry I'm not keeping up very well on any postings.  Would love to be lost
| in a book for awhile.  Had started a book called No Physical Evidence, by
| Gus Lee.
| This fifteen seconds book, that Don found, sounds like a wild high 
cortisol
| ride.
| Glad to have had a warm evening to get the mile and back errand done.
| Strangely encountered the three missionary boys trying to give me a 
Domino's
| pizza even though I was freshly full from Arby's.  That, and prayer
| offerings.  I went ahead and took them up  on the prayers, but had to
| decline the pizza.  They weren't offensive in how they did this, and it 
was
| kind of sweet, sort of like a catch and release, lol.  I had been feeling
| somewhat orphaned on the journey out trying to meet dire needs, and began 
to
| feel cosmically amused at the delivery of attentiveness in the median
| points.  All in all, I feel like I completed a four hour Mardi Gras circle
| around the neighborhood coming back down the other side of the street 
across
| from where I live.  Had to wait a while before crossing over to my 
driveway.
| Lot of loud masking sounds the last few minutes.  Two ambulances, and two
| trains, and no big traffic gaps till a minute or two after the second 
train.
| Like summer.  Was wearing a fleece throw that I've sewn into a shawl like
| cloak, and only wore it on the way back home.  Two nights ago it was like
| Arctic.  I could not have stood it in a snow suit.  Pushed the wheelchair
| down the street like it was a float.  Walking toddler style.  Ribbons and
| lace trailing off my gaffer taped white stick on the front, and couple of
| lights swinging from the top of the cane through the ribbons, and the 
center
| of the backpack, riding on the top of a very large storage box in the seat
| of the chair.  CVS was closed, but Walgreens worked!  It's great to be 
back,
| 'cause once I go to sleep, I don't think I'm gonna be able to move for
| about 3 days.  Should probably ice pack.  That's a hard thought though.
| Audrey
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: "book talk" <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 12:47 PM
| Subject: [book_talk] book review
|
|
| what a great book, first the anotation,  15 seconds, by andrew gross,
|               After Florida plastic surgeon Henry Steadman is
|                  pulled over for a traffic violation, someone in a passing
| car
|                  shoots the cop. Steadman flees in panic, and soon
| discovers
|                  that his golfing buddy is also dead and that the man
| framing
|                  him has kidnapped Steadman's daughter. Violence and 
strong
|                  language. 2012.
|
|
| wow, all i can say is wow, this one's at the top of all the books i've 
read
| this year, and maybe last year, talk about on the edge of your seat? 
didn't
| want it to end, but then again, didn't want to know, LOL, what a fantastic
| book, Don
| Don
| the curmudgeon has spoken.
| dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|
|

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