| Current mood: |  angry |
| Current music: | The TV. |
godddamnit.
Excuse me, I have some rage. ♥
So, for those who haven't been following along, my mother is godawfully inept with computers. My computer has lasted me somewhere around six years. In that time, she has gone through three. This latest, and most epic, fail started when spyware masked as security said that she had a virus. She clicked on the notification without noticing that it wasn't from an anti-virus that she has, and. . . She tanked the whole computer.
Now, remember this, whenever my mother can't get net on her computer, she takes away my net. Because, clearly, my computer is somehow sabotaging hers.
I was upset at losing net, so I decided to fix-up her computer after she spent all of the previous net screaming at until it was righted. (Honestly, I could live without net for a long time if she didn't have extreme rage-ons that involve throwing stuff and hitting. Do not come to me with uncontrollable rage, because I will tolerate from only one person in this world.) If I could get her to use a safer browser with anti-virus and so on that has not failed me, she surely couldn't screw it up. Except when I did this fix-up, I overwrote her Outlook Express with a newer version that didn't have her password and so on. So, she decided to switch to a system restore point. . . It tanked.
She called a technician from a company that she had good experiences with to come over. After about two hours, the computer was once again fixed. In the time that she came home and spent an hour on her computer, the computer was once again tanked. I delivered the computer to their office, and they spent an entire agonizing four days with it. (Note: They told her that she could pick it up, and I went there to find out that it was not ready. This made me late for work, so I don't particularly like them. ♥) Now, after about three hundred dollars in repair costs and a remformatted hard-drive, this computer could not go wrong, could it?
Yes. . . Yes, it could. My mother tried to re-install Microsoft, but she started an install of XP Pro OS when she already had XP on it. She couldn't finish the install, so booting has become an interesting debacle that induces screaming. Then, the internet has always been batty, and it doesn't like this new computer.
So, I am on my brother's laptop once again to say that I will be on a hiatus until. . . Well, my mother stops being incompetent with computers. This might take awhile. ♥ At least, there is always net at the school computers.
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