My personal computer hasn’t shut down on its own, yet. My work computer, on the other hand, decided to act funny yesterday. It was moving so sluggishly I decided to reboot. Looking at the desktop, I thought, “let me see if I can clean this baby up!” So I ran System Maintenance and I deleted and compressed tons of old files. Next I ran Crap Cleaner and Ad-Aware. Once finished I felt proud of myself. I rebooted. The computer turned off, it turned on, I logged in and it hung at the Windows Wallpaper screen. I have a mouse. I have a Task Manager. I can even click the New Task button and view the contents of my hard drive and I can open Word documents and run certain applications. I just don’t have a desktop or Start menu. I called my company’s help desk and they told me I would have to send it to Chicago. This wasn’t the answer I wanted and so I tried to troubleshoot on my own but I got nowhere. Finally I realized I had no choice but to send it to them. I called them up and said, “My computer is in a box and on the way to you guys via FedEx. Please overnight me a loaner laptop, the programs I need loaded on it are…”
“Just send us an email, Donna”
“An email?”
“Yeah, put it in an email.”
“Let me repeat myself, MY COMPUTER IS IN A BOX ON A FEDEX TRUCK”
“Oh! I guess you can’t send an email then can you?”
And this is the person who will be fixing my computer. Ugh!