Lucking Tough

My speedup process yesterday didn't go quite as well as I wanted to. Some unknown DLL file went missing and I had to do a standard system restore. Only did a partial replacement though, in order to keep all files intact, but the system was still bugging when I logged in and thus I had to go through safe-mode to retrieve the files I wanted to keep, run them all over to an external drive, and then wipe the hard-drives clean for a clean install of Windows. It took me a few hours, and a couple more to install all old and new updates/other programs, but I'm happy for the opportunity. PC runs faster than I can remember it's ever done before, boots up in about 15 seconds and shuts down in less than 5. I installed Opera as my default browser as a change, and I think I'll be liking it more than I did FireFox before, maybe, it's blazing fast and filled with a fleet of neat features.

System is still a bit awkward, among other things there is no sound, and I'm wondering if maybe I should have just wiped out the C drive and not that other one as well... oh well. Made the mistake of surfing online to grab myself a firewall and a free Anti-Virus before I actually had one installed, big mistake, now a Trojan is winding its way through my system and I'm doing both an automatic scan/removal and a manual such where "Some files cannot be healed", no doubt some of my programs will start malfunctioning again with some files missing here and there, it's a bummer. I think I'll just leave most of my stuff on my external drive and buy myself a brand new spanking stationary PC after summer, this one no longer has the sufficient resources I need. 512MB Ram and a 160GB drive no longer cuts it, even though it was the best of the best seven/eight years ago. I can't run GTA 4, nor the latest Adobe CS4 suits, not even my modded version of GTA SA any longer! Figure it's best I get a drive big enough to keep all my files on as well, so the external can be used for backup purposes only, would be a shame if it gave up on me whilst being the only source to my gigantic archives of files.

Bad things always come in trilogies, so I guess these were the ones for me this May. Three accounts hacked first, Invoice overdue second, Computer crashed third. Sounds reasonable? Only one of the three proved fatal, but it's a bit irritating that all this tough lucking comes now. I really really have to finish all studies before summer, I have times scheduled for all three driving tests (risk/theory/official) the coming two weeks, and my buddy Andreas apparently has a short one week vacation this time of this month as well, won't be able to spend as much time with him doing muchly nothing as I would have liked, had I been in time with things.