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miracleshaman · 12-19-2006, 04:42 PM

Maybe with all we've been doing, now things are incompatible or something... but this computer has been crashing all day! This has NEVER, EVER, EVER happened with this computer before! EVER! Last night (or was it this morning? whenever I wrote my last post...) was the first time. But today was like a nightmare! I lost all my work and had to start over 4 times, because everything kept locking up and I could not save anything, before either restarting IE or rebooting.

My "work" was online. I was uploading listings to ebay. And if I could even begin to tell you the frustration of getting descriptions done, down to the last sentence, and then having to start over again from the beginning. Over and over and over again! You don't want to hear the #!*@%$# words coming out of my mouth!!!!!

I must admit, all the freezing and crashing only happened during composing on ebay, so maybe it was on their end, but I don't think so. I think it only happened on there, because that is the only thing I was working on today. Or at least trying to!

The other thing going on was still trying to resolve the Updates problem. I had gotten to the point where I supposedly could now get Updates, but every installation failed! So the Updates guy had me do a whole bunch of other things, uninstall, clean, reinstall, download... and it seemed as if the problem was finally fixed. I was able to get 10 Updates from pretty far back.

So I'm supposedly caught up now. But the thing scans for over half an hour before it finds anything, and I had to run it 4 times, because everything kept freezing, so I had to keep starting over. So the frakkin' thing took ALL day! And added to the ebay data losses... All I can say is GRRRRRRRRH!

One scary thing is that simultaneous to the first ebay shutdown, a Snoop window opened and said someone was trying to read my keystrokes and if I kept typing they could read everything, so I should stop typing. But everything was frozen then, so I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even click on Snoop to say Yay or Nay! I had to do Cntrl-Alt-Del to close Snoop, and the same for ebay. The Snoop thing never came up again, but ebay froze 4 more times, as I've already said.

I reported all of this to the Updates person to see if there's anything he had me do that caused all of this. And at the very least, something is still very wrong there, because it should not have to scan for over half an hour to find any Updates I need.

So I am freaked! Things feel worse now than when we started. I have NEVER had any of these problems on this computer before today! Please help!

Jeez! Do we have to start all over again!!!!????!!!! What the Frickin-Frak is going on?

Oh Great! I can still type here, but I cannot do anything else! I wanted to send you the Registry Mechanic log, but when I try to click on ANYTHING I get that dull boop sound that lets you know your action cannot go through and you are stuck.

I swear I am going crazy!

12-19-2006, 04:42 PM	#22 (permalink)
miracleshaman Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 128 OS: XPSP2	Now I'm freaked! Maybe with all we've been doing, now things are incompatible or something... but this computer has been crashing all day! This has NEVER, EVER, EVER happened with this computer before! EVER! Last night (or was it this morning? whenever I wrote my last post...) was the first time. But today was like a nightmare! I lost all my work and had to start over 4 times, because everything kept locking up and I could not save anything, before either restarting IE or rebooting. My "work" was online. I was uploading listings to ebay. And if I could even begin to tell you the frustration of getting descriptions done, down to the last sentence, and then having to start over again from the beginning. Over and over and over again! You don't want to hear the #!*@%$# words coming out of my mouth!!!!! I must admit, all the freezing and crashing only happened during composing on ebay, so maybe it was on their end, but I don't think so. I think it only happened on there, because that is the only thing I was working on today. Or at least trying to! The other thing going on was still trying to resolve the Updates problem. I had gotten to the point where I supposedly could now get Updates, but every installation failed! So the Updates guy had me do a whole bunch of other things, uninstall, clean, reinstall, download... and it seemed as if the problem was finally fixed. I was able to get 10 Updates from pretty far back. So I'm supposedly caught up now. But the thing scans for over half an hour before it finds anything, and I had to run it 4 times, because everything kept freezing, so I had to keep starting over. So the frakkin' thing took ALL day! And added to the ebay data losses... All I can say is GRRRRRRRRH! One scary thing is that simultaneous to the first ebay shutdown, a Snoop window opened and said someone was trying to read my keystrokes and if I kept typing they could read everything, so I should stop typing. But everything was frozen then, so I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even click on Snoop to say Yay or Nay! I had to do Cntrl-Alt-Del to close Snoop, and the same for ebay. The Snoop thing never came up again, but ebay froze 4 more times, as I've already said. I reported all of this to the Updates person to see if there's anything he had me do that caused all of this. And at the very least, something is still very wrong there, because it should not have to scan for over half an hour to find any Updates I need. So I am freaked! Things feel worse now than when we started. I have NEVER had any of these problems on this computer before today! Please help! Jeez! Do we have to start all over again!!!!????!!!! What the Frickin-Frak is going on? Oh Great! I can still type here, but I cannot do anything else! I wanted to send you the Registry Mechanic log, but when I try to click on ANYTHING I get that dull boop sound that lets you know your action cannot go through and you are stuck. I swear I am going crazy!