The Friday of someone possessed on fixing their computer.

WARNING!!!

Please read the August 3rd 2006 post prior to reading this post.

You will get more out of this.

I talked to some Windows IT people at work about the IE problem. They suggested that I might have to either download and install Beta IE7 or take my computer into the Geek Squad.

Z and I found a phone number for Microsoft. We paid the $35 for the consult. I spent about 3 hours with him as we went through the procedures. This is all what he instructed us to do.

NOTE: Restarting this XP Home Edition Compaq takes close to 15 minutes!

1. Restart computer
2. Uninstall IE through Uninstall Window Components.
3. Restart the computer
4. Install the IE - Still couldn't type in IE address bar
5. Shut off computer
6. Start computer by getting into safe mode - Couldn't get into safe mode
7. Uninstall the HP printer drivers (wasn't using them anyways)
8. Restart
9. Check to see if HP drivers are uninstalled
10. Go to start - Run Programs and then type msconfig... Couldn't type in anything there as well.

Finally tech guy put me on hold for about 5 minutes. When he got back on the phone, he stated that I would need to find the Windows XP Home Edition CD. I don't have one. I explained to him. They never gave one to me with the computer. He said that I could use one from a friend. Perhaps My brother or Dad has a copy. We decided that we would contact each other on Monday.

Was having trouble - Couldn't type in Internet Explorer

Read this post before you read the posts on August 4 and 5th.

Tonight something interesting happened to my computer. For some reason, in Internet Explorer (IE), I wasn't able to type anything in the address bar or on any web pages. This means that I couldn't post a message, search on google or anything.

Fortunately, we have two computers that are networked together so I was able to search on the working computer for what would cause this.

One recommendation on the internet was to do a system restore. I felt that was a drastic measure and wanted to do that at the last resort. Other sites stated that some malicious Spyware or Hijack program was the culprit. So I updated and ran both Spybot Search and Adware and they found no problems.

I tried going to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions - Still no help.

It was working a few days ago so I resorted to Restoring my computer to an earlier time. I went back one week. Still no help.

I finally found out that there were some issues with a Microsoft Internet Update named kb908531. The post was from April 2005 but I was running out of options. The post said that it should be removed, So I removed it.

It is around 11:30 pm and I'm tired and I am going to bed.

Angela and Jay's New And Improved Wall!

This is my sister Angela and Jay's house. They just got the wall put in, by a new contractor, after having a contractor rip them off by not finishing the job after he had removed the old wall. It look great! I happened to be driving in the area earlier in the today and decided to take a look at it.

My sister Angela fosters dogs for Last Hope.

Last Hope is an all volunteer no kill foster based rescue.

Last Hope, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping unwanted, abandoned and homeless animals. With the help of volunteers and members, Last Hope has placed more than 15,000 animals in good homes since October of 1985.I think that is really cool that she helps these animals.

My friend at work adopted his dog Bailey from Last hope - He really cares for Bailey. He actually found his dog through: http://www.petfinder.org/. He connected with Angela and then only realized that Angela was my sister.

Last Hope website is: http://www.last-hope.org/