Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / July 2006

I've been having a *lot* of computer problems this last week, first my
virusscan bit my firewall and then the firewall bit back, which led to a
big mess. Long story, never mind, I seem to have fixed it (knock on
wood).

I have also been having XP problems. System repair won't respond
sometimes or it will tell me it is impossible to make a (what's that
called in the English version?) repair point at that time. When I later
had a look, it *did* make system repair points. In fact, I had made lord
knows how many in a time space of a few minutes, simply by retrying
because XP kept on telling me no system repair point was made. A similar
problem occured with the Defragmentisation function. Everything was
fully functioning, I could click on whatever button I wanted, nothing
started to happen.

Next to all this, I have been experiencing problems switching the
computer off. I'll go through the whole procedure, but nothing will
happen. Even pushing the switch off button on the computer itself
doesn't work at all. Reboot button works, as does switching off the
power, and the computer doesn't crash either, everything will continue
to work, it's just that the switch off process won't always start.

And now tonight: aaaah, charming, a new problem <sarcasm>. Suddenly half
of my folders in OE had disappeared, including everything in them. It
wasn't just mail folders either, one NG had disappeared as well. Oddly
enough when I tried to subscribe to the NG again, it was missing from
the list of NGs on that server. It took resetting the account properties
for it to re-occur. I solved the problem with the disappeared mail
folders by taking a backupped version of folders.dbx and overwriting the
current version. That did mean however, that all the NGs reset to the
date the backup was made. No, I'm not saying that correctly. They didn't
reset. I had manually deleted most of those old posts from the NGs,
leaving only recent ones. Now all of a sudden all the months old
messages reappeared and were added to the messages already in the NGs.
Suddenly I have nearly 6,000 posts in AM (I have no idea how I can have
messages dating back to May now, when the German news server won't even
carry messages that old). Needless to say I have just made a new backup
of OE, having corrected everything that needed correcting. I really
don't want to have to use another ancient backup should the problem
re-occur.

It's so many things all at once. Oh forgot to say: been getting a few
messages saying OE wasn't the standard software used for email and would
I like to change that, same thing for IE as my browser. Both have
*always* been my standard software.

I swear something on this 'puter has started to lead a life of its own,
but *what*? Virusscan, firewall, spyware, nothing found on my scans. I
have no ideas what's going on. Thoughts anyone?