Finally!!!

[jeweledvixen]

Whew! I ~finally~ got my internet to work on the laptop, so I'm back on line. My computer died Sunday night, so I got out my laptop that I've never. I had lost the power cord, so I had to buy a new one. Then I had sooooo much trouble getting on the internet. Nothing seemed to work. Now, I'm not a computer genius by any means. But I have set up a few and know how to do it. But I kept getting messages that it couldn't connect me and that I should check my internet connections.

Seems that it was a problem with IE because as soon as I downloaded Firefox, I was online. So, now I need to see if I can recover all the stuff from my old computer. I'll have to take it to an expert for that. If it's truly dead, I will cry. I have thousands of pictures, documents and music that I will have lost. I can't even bear to think about it all being lost.

Along with the dead computer, I lost access to my graphics programs and to my Tony's Tuesday Review pic spam that I had almost finished. :'( Hopefully I can get something else together before tomorrow night.

Now I need to check my e-mail and inboxes. Then I need to catch up on both Dreamwidth and Live Journal.

Comments

[dragonheart]

IE is famously unreliable - I am a google chrome girl myself.

*crosses fingers* that you are able to retrieve all your documents, pics, etc. I can't even imagine losing everything on my computer which is why I back up everything to an external hard drive. EHD's are relatively inexpensive these days depending on how much memory you want and it is a life saver in case of a computer crash.

welcome back to the cyber world!

[jeweledvixen]

Yeah, I thought about getting a EHD, but that's as far as I got. :/ I'm definitely going to get one now...now that it might be too late.

[proseac]

Three cheers for Chrome!! It's the most user-friendly browser I've ever used, and I'll never go back. I haven't used IE for YEARS, but I was a Firefox girl for quite some time, until suddenly about a year ago it started crapping out on me for no apparent reason.

Backups...I'm seriously considering this one. My consulting client has used it for years, and the prices are ridiculously low. They even have a free version!

Good luck, sweetie! I hope you can get everything back without any trouble.

*hugs*

[jeweledvixen]

Thanks! I'm going to check out Google Chrome. I also bookmarked Crash Plan and I'll absolutely be using that! :)