Written from the kitchen table

[kinzel]

I'm writing this from the kitchen table, via Haysus the Asus, while the "big machine" in my office is going through a Windows nervous breakdown, telling me that, multiple times, that "we're sorry, Windows did not start normally" ....

This is not good news on account of I don't want to have to reinstall every single bit of software I have on that sucker in case there really is a problem ...if it doesn't route through to the desktop this time I'll move the box and push all the add-on cards, memory, and etc to make sure nothing urgent vibrated free during the overnight ...


UPDATED ...

the "return system to factory default" option seems open, but that's the pits ....
I have grabbed the most recent work on theo from the back-up drive, which is looking precious ......
sigh

Comments

[muehe.livejournal.com]

Probably to late for suggestions, but.
Did you try starting up in safe mode?
Before you go into any extreme measure -- pull your hard drive and copy the "important" files onto another machine. Of, course that does not help with the installed programs. I guess I am assuming you have access to another machine.
Windows does have a fix OS on the disk I have. A couple of times it fixed everything up real nice. One time it made it worse. Had to do a complete re-install.