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akujunkanOkay, swear I'll stop spamming everyone's flists after this post, but I do wonder.
A curious thing occurred about a month or so before ye olde computer stopped working. The recycle bin icon was always on 'full', even if there was nothing to be recycled in it. When I'd go to delete whatever mystery file the computer thought was in there, it would ask me, 'Do you want to delete the program WINDOWS?'
The new computer is now doing the exact same thing, within two days of my having brought it home. The only programs I've downloaded onto it are winamp, aim, and opera, and I do have the firewall and virus checker enabled. What on earth could be causing this, and can I expect the new machine to fry within the month?
And as a corollary, about the external HD.
It too has become fried, with several hundred undeletable crap corrupted files spontaneously appearing. I bought this external three months ago, so it's still under warranty. I can take it in and have it fixed. Problem is, every photograph I've taken since May is on there, as are most of my mp3s, the rips I've made of rented DVDs, and my pornography. I don't want to lose these files, and I'm not sure how much poking around (or more importantly, talking) Japanese tech guys do.
So if you were me, what would you do? Take it in or not?
That will be all.
A curious thing occurred about a month or so before ye olde computer stopped working. The recycle bin icon was always on 'full', even if there was nothing to be recycled in it. When I'd go to delete whatever mystery file the computer thought was in there, it would ask me, 'Do you want to delete the program WINDOWS?'
The new computer is now doing the exact same thing, within two days of my having brought it home. The only programs I've downloaded onto it are winamp, aim, and opera, and I do have the firewall and virus checker enabled. What on earth could be causing this, and can I expect the new machine to fry within the month?
And as a corollary, about the external HD.
It too has become fried, with several hundred undeletable crap corrupted files spontaneously appearing. I bought this external three months ago, so it's still under warranty. I can take it in and have it fixed. Problem is, every photograph I've taken since May is on there, as are most of my mp3s, the rips I've made of rented DVDs, and my pornography. I don't want to lose these files, and I'm not sure how much poking around (or more importantly, talking) Japanese tech guys do.
So if you were me, what would you do? Take it in or not?
That will be all.
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on 2005-10-04 01:40 am (UTC)1It's not infallible, as one item it claimed to be a threat was an EA autorun executable in a temp folder. I deleted it anyway ;)