I’ve been away the past couple of days re-installing Windows XP on my computer which, as anyone else who has done it will testify, is a huge task. Not only do you have to re-install Windows but you also have to re-install the browsers, the drivers, the printer, scanner, USB devices and software. So this blog had to be put to one side for a couple of days.

I’ve known for a while that I had to do a XP re-install but I thought I could wait a bit while I caught up with the multitude of other tasks clogging up my to-do list. But the other day, while I was having my fifth cup of tea of the day, the computer did a Borg on me. It started deactivating all my sound drivers and printer drivers. The start menu preferences were all changed and programs started booting up and shutting down, and then XP started shutting down. I half expected the speakers to start droning “we are the Borg….put down your cup of tea and prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile!”

So to quote Tom Hanks - “Houston, we have a problem!”. Time to re-install!

But everything seems to be OK now. It’s times like these that you realise how valuable Google is in your life. Without Google, I would never have found the right driver for my old antique deskjet printer or how to re-install the sound driver.

I have a huge backlog of stories I want to get through here. I’ll be back later with the first of them.

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