One of THOSE days

[Mistyeyeddreamer]

I've just had one of THOSE days, when as soon as you get up you know things aren't going to run smoothly. The eye test wasn't too bad, I couldn't focus for a while afterwards but nothing too drastic.

Then my computer froze!! I've spent the last 8 hours trying to restore it to some sort of working order. I called the support line, was talked through reformatting my hard drive, switched it back on....guess what? It was the mouse that had stopped working, not the computer...aaarrrggghhhh. Luckily I had a spare mouse so I installed that. Then I set up a a connection to the internet, but the socket I plug my modem in has mysteriously broken. Trip to the shops, buy a new extension. Plug in....won't work! Forced to use ISP software so I can connect..works like a dream. I still don't know why my new dial-up connections won't work though *sigh*.

Anyway, that's why I've not been around much today. Will spend tomorrow re-installing all my software, won't that be fun...........not.

Wish me luck http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif

Misty_using_her_new_vibrating_mouse http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Mistyeyeddreamer]

Badger, yes I had to reformat the hard disk, was talked through it by a chap at the computer helpline. Then reinstall everything.

I&#39;m fairly sure my TCP/IP settings are correct, they worked before the crash. I&#39;ve now installed software that I got from my ISP and it works ok with that. I was connecting with the server but then getting an error message saying the computer I was trying to connect with wouldn&#39;t accept, or something like that. The only trouble with the ISP software is that it&#39;s set up to use IE4 and I&#39;m using IE5 right now, but would like to update it to IE6, so I occasionally get conflict messages.

I&#39;m using a pc with windows98 which was preinstalled when I bought the computer. I only use one ISP but they have about 20 different phone numbers that I can connect with.

[Matthew]

Yikes Misty&#33; http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif Hope you&#39;ve got things sorted, on another note, isn&#39;t it extremely boring reformatting and re-installing WinDOZE?&#33; http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif It&#39;s like watching paint dry.....ZZZzzZZZzzz&#33;

I suppose most of us are forced to become &#39;Computer Geeks&#39; to some extent, if we don&#39;t we&#39;d never get our PC&#39;s back working again (or Macs if some of us use them&#33; http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif)

I&#39;ve been saving this new emoticon http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/online2long.gif , but it seems relevant to add it now....&#33;