2005nov22. Mail.
hewloo man. are you out of safe mode now, or whatE?
Yes. Originally I got some old scanner software from a driver site. I installed it. The scanner did not work. I uninstalled it. Then I got the same piece of software – but it was built differently – from driverguide.com. I cannot recommend you stay away from driverguide.com enough. It is a horrible site with the most heinous registration hoops ever. Social Security Number? Here, enjoy a bunch of 0000000’s. Anyway, I got the software from there, installed it. The scanner didn’t work. Then the computer wouldn’t start -- kept rebooting. I spent about two days digging deeper and deeper into the amazing mysteries of the modern PC. Everyone told me to just give up and re-install Windows. I’m dumb, I don’t listen to people. So then I thought -- well, the first piece of software I had didn’t make the PC reboot over and over. And it’s theoretically the same piece of software. So if I re-install it, it will write over whatever is causing the PC distress and it will boot normally. And that’s exactly what happened, the end. When you’re dealing with the stupidest operating system in the world, think stupider.