Downgrade

[howeird]

I figure they've had long enough to clean it up, so bit the bullet and installed SP2 on the home PC. Still have SP1 at work and on the laptop because one of the company's video players croaks under SP2.
Did it the Right Way™:

• Nuked a bunch of software I don't use anymore
  
• Updated my virus software and did a full system scan (it was clean)
  
• Ran SpyHunter, and killed a bunch of adware
  
• Set a restore point
  
• Did the upgrade
  
• Crossed my fingers
  
• Un-crossed my fingers so I could reboot the system
  
• Watched in amazement as nothing went wrong
  

When SP2 boots for the first time it put up a simple but annoying configuration screen. Which reminded me to do a couple more things:

• Turn off the effing MS firewall
  
• Turn off the effing taskbar "red shield" warning icon which says the firewall is disabled
  
• Turn off the effing taskbar "yellow shield" warning icon that virus protection is out of date
  

Then I tested all my favorite programs, and watched in utter amazement as they all functioned correctly.

But there's always Karma. Somewhere, someone is installing SP2 and it's frying their hard drive, zapping their network card and making their monitor implode.

Comments

[scendan.livejournal.com]

Glad it installed well. Tried to think of witty follow-up to your (as always) well-written and entertaining post. Failed.

Sorry about that.

I fell on my sword, witty-comment-wise.

[howeird]

Sorry, no sword-falling permitted here. Had enough of that Bible class.


Samuel I Chapter 31

3: And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

4: Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

5: And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

6: So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

7: And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

8: And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

9: And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

10: And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.


And people wonder why I'm an atheist...