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

  • From: Audrey <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:25:47 -0600

Good luck with the trial walk Shaz! Audrey

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> On Feb 17, 2014, at 5:03 AM, "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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