Sunday, March 06, 2005
Self Help May Be To Step Back
Sometimes, helping your self can be a matter of back-pedaling, admitting something is not working, cutting your losses and moving on.
Irritating, but healthier in the long run. I hope.
My computer has been playing up ever since I installed anti-spyware, and towards the end of last week it became almost unusable.
First attempt to help myself was through the company that makes the software. Two months of fruitless inquiries.
Today I applied a different software to root out the causes. By lunchtime - having tied up the machine so I could do no other work - it was still trying to make up its mind. So I killed it.
Fingers crossed. For this 5 minutes, everything is working fine.
Irritating, but healthier in the long run. I hope.
My computer has been playing up ever since I installed anti-spyware, and towards the end of last week it became almost unusable.
First attempt to help myself was through the company that makes the software. Two months of fruitless inquiries.
Today I applied a different software to root out the causes. By lunchtime - having tied up the machine so I could do no other work - it was still trying to make up its mind. So I killed it.
Fingers crossed. For this 5 minutes, everything is working fine.
