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• Category: IT Blogging
• Current Mood: >_< Annoyed

In the past, many computers went down to the install of XP SP2 forcing many people to reformat their hard drives and start from scratch. Do you think Microsoft would have learned from this situation and not have another occurrence with Service Pack 3? Nope.

It started Memorial weekend when my grandfather just asked me to update his computer. I saw that the only update was Service Pack 3 for XP. It went through the first part of the install and then attempted to restart. Only to error out with the horrifying blue screen of death just after the XP splash...

• Category: IT Blogging
• Current Mood: >_< Annoyed

There's nothing worse than when an application crashes. Especially when it's an application that works perfectly fine and then crashes when you try to close it.

My task today was to rid a PC of spyware. Before I began my removal, I was browsing around to see what problems this spyware was causing. I noticed that the PC's ability to use a search engine was hijacked, IE crashed on exit, and that the PC was using over a gig of memory resources...

Anyway, a restart of the workstation toke care of the memory issue. That's one down. Next, I ran Spybot...