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I’m up and running!

I didn’t get to bed until 1:15 Saturday morning. The recovery took five hours!

The rest of the time was reinstalling the backup. And guess what? I still needed to reinstall programs and serial numbers. I used the backup that I’d made Tuesday morning and the only thing it seemed to be useful for was as a guide for what I needed to get back on the system. Some of the things were there and didn’t need to be reinstalled and some of them just needed a serial number, so that was good. That saved a little bit of time.

Yesterday I spent most of the day reinstalling graphics programs and plugins. And the movie making software. And once again, it was the Ulead software that took so much time. The fact that you can’t install an upgrade program unless you install the original program first can be a real PITA. And if you don’t get them in the right order, you don’t get them installed. I’m very pissed off that I can’t get my Paint Shop Pros installed. I can the pre-Corel versions, but Corel has this thing in place that you can only install them so many times, then the number is no longer any good.

Figure the computer problems I’ve had this year, the old computer, the new computer….sheesh. I emailed them. That just sucks. I’m running a trial version of PSPX. Can’t get PSPXI running at all.

But, everything else seems to be working as it should. The wireless mouse wasn’t working this morning, so I plugged in the adaptor from the old KVM switchbox and the mouse is working nicely. I guess just using the computers for power wasn’t enough to drive both the mouse and the keyboard. I’m glad I still had it plugged in. And I’m glad it fit the new switchbox.

Anyway, things seem to be running smoothly.

Yay!

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Sunday, November 26, 2006