Monday, May 25, 2009

My Wicked Weekend with Vista

Today I would like to share how I spent my Saturday evening until 3am. And my Sunday afternoon until 3pm.

For those of you who run Vista on your computer, will surely be able to identify with this post.

And for those of you who don‘t…YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU‘RE MISSING.

Having Vista as your software, is worse than being punished by the IRS for two years of tax evasion and finding out that you owe them an additional three thousand dollars in penalty fees.

It’s a nightmare, because it seems that the longer you have Vista, the worse it gets.

It’s strange, because my computer will run smoothing for a week or so, and then suddenly becomes possessed by what seems like Damien in the movie The Omen.

Updates are CONSTANT. And after every single installation my entire computer system becomes schizophrenic, which usually takes at least 3-4 days for everything to return to normal.

I know that part of my issue with how slow Vista runs, is that I need to get more memory. But that still doesn’t excuse how it screws up other things on my computer, such as, the clock, virus protection, keyboard, and word processor.

Anyway…

Saturday evening at about 11:30pm, as I was getting ready to go off-line, I noticed a message for new updates. And like an idiot, instead of waiting to do it in the morning, I thought I’d get it over with.

There were TWO updates.

One was for spyware and the other was for the new Internet Explorer 8.

The message said that the IE 8 update was HIGHLY recommended, so I went ahead and downloaded it.

HUUUUUUUGE mistake.

First, let me tell you how LONG it took.

Let’s just say that if I were a female cat, I could have gone through 9 ½ weeks of gestation and then 24 hours of hard labor, while giving birth to EIGHT kittens.

After the download…it took another 35 minutes to install.

THEN…I had to restart my computer, which took another 20 minutes to conform the installation.

By the time it had finished, I had watched 6 DVD episodes of Sex and the City.

At 3am...I went to bed.

When I awoke on Sunday morning, I immediately went online to check out my new Internet Explorer 8.

Well…much to my surprise, when I got to my home page there were two added toolbars (I detest toolbars), which made my nice 20 inch monitor look like 5 inches. I also noticed that my phishing security system was no longer working. And to make matters worse, browsing the web was excruciatingly SLOW.

So, I started googling the Internet to try and find out if other people were having any issues.

Come to find out, that IE 8 was NOT so compatible with Vista and that it was causing several people’s computers to CRASH.

SHIT!

Luckily, the Microsoft website explained how to uninstall the update.

And thank god uninstalling was so much less painful.

Because believe me…

…I live on the 21st floor of a high rise apartment building….