Hi Everyone!
After an involuntary "vacation" away from my PC (and this forum), it's nice to be back!
On Thanksgiving, I was a "good boy" about staying low-carb and did not gain any weight.
However, I did eat more than usual which I believe has stalled my
weight loss.
I'm confident it will get going again soon!
Staying low-carb and reducing my food consumption will force
weight loss to restart.
So on to the "why" of my "vacation"...
Weird things started happening on my PC around the middle of this month.
The desktop screen would sometimes partially blur.
The machine would just lock up and require power down and up to run.
The PS/2 keyboard would not work. Had to plug it into USB.
Files on my local hard drives would start disappearing. This was VERY scary! I take backups so nothing important got lost (whew!).
Plus a bunch of other strange things were also starting to occur.
At first, I thought it was a virus.
So I scanned the machine using several different anti-virus/malware products, but found nothing.
At that point, I was convinced that my 6 1/2 year old PC's main board was dying.
On November 18th, I took my PC to the shop for repairs. The repair guy verified that the main board was going out.
He replaced the main board, CPU, memory, and power supply (to be safe).
He also re-partitioned my hard drives and reloaded Windows.
The holidays is NOT a good time of year to get an unexpected bill for about $600.00!
But my PC now runs MUCH faster than it ever did. And the PC upgrade was about 1 1/2 years (and 8 PC generations) overdue!
This will be my Christmas gift this year.
To add insult to injury, after I got my PC home on November 26th, someone hijacked my e-mail account!!!
E-mails with links to weird sites (like Viagra) were being sent to everybody on my e-mail contact list.
How embarrassing!!!... One of them was even sent to Doug who contacted me about it!
I had to change my e-mail password to stop the e-mails.
So now, I'm reconfiguring my PC to be the way I want (e.g. screen wallpaper). This will take some time to do.
But at least now, I can again stay in touch with all you great folks!
Tony (mouseissue)
