Ok, new enemy, Windows Vista. It now takes the place over Windows ME.
Yes, Vista is beautiful in appearance, but her looks are deceiving.
I've finally taken the plunge and installed SP1, and a ton of other updates. And guess what, after waiting what felt like an eternity, my computer had to restart to finish applying the updates.
Well, I restart, I'm at the logon screen with the 'Installing Updates' notification. Five minutes goes by, computer restarts to a black screen. (Yay)
Well, I turn the computer off and on manually, after waiting for a good while to make sure it wasn't doing anything important. (Better safe then sorry.)
Then, on my next boot up, lo and behold, there the error message be. "Winload.exe is either missing or corrupt."
That's when I picked up my computer, and threw it at my monitor after breaking everything else in my home office. Or at least that's what I would have done if I was a man. Instead, I just bit my tongue, and spent thirty minutes looking for my Vista Ultimate installation disk to try to 'repair' the install.
After looking through two boxes of various CD's, I found my old Photoshop set and my old Quake cd-rom. Then after the third box, I finally find it.
I happily pop it in, (the cd) and restart. Vista installer starts to load, then I get a screen saying 'Stop Error 01x01003840x010'. I'm now very happy of course, so I hug my computer and say thank you for NOTHING. I reboot, and try again. Wow, same thing.
Well, I take out the pristine CD, wipe it off with my camera's lens cloth and try again.
BINGO! I'm able to 'fix' the 'winload.exe' problem and finally see my logon screen. But what's this? "Installing Updates"?! I wait another five minutes, and then It reboots. Guess where it rebooted to? If you said 'Windows Vista?' you FAIL. I got another BlackScreenOfNothing. So I cautiously reboot once again, let it start up, and FINALLY I get to my logon page WITH the password box. I then type in my password (wouldn't you like to know) and I get in Vista... FINALLY!
But then I get a little box that says 'The program *RunDLL* has stopped working'. The only choice I have here is the little close button.
But wow, way to be vague Vista... Seriously... 'RunDLL', is that like 'RunDMC'? Didn't think so.
In closing, Vista is my new arch enemy. I'll be installing Xp Pro this weekend, alongside WindowBlinds so I can continue to have my 'vista glass' effects.
Now, I'm off to bed. I'll sleep two hours, probably to wake up to a blue screen of death.
But hey, XP is only a day away.
Thanks for reading!
SOLIDUS
Yes, Vista is beautiful in appearance, but her looks are deceiving.
I've finally taken the plunge and installed SP1, and a ton of other updates. And guess what, after waiting what felt like an eternity, my computer had to restart to finish applying the updates.
Well, I restart, I'm at the logon screen with the 'Installing Updates' notification. Five minutes goes by, computer restarts to a black screen. (Yay)
Well, I turn the computer off and on manually, after waiting for a good while to make sure it wasn't doing anything important. (Better safe then sorry.)
Then, on my next boot up, lo and behold, there the error message be. "Winload.exe is either missing or corrupt."
That's when I picked up my computer, and threw it at my monitor after breaking everything else in my home office. Or at least that's what I would have done if I was a man. Instead, I just bit my tongue, and spent thirty minutes looking for my Vista Ultimate installation disk to try to 'repair' the install.
After looking through two boxes of various CD's, I found my old Photoshop set and my old Quake cd-rom. Then after the third box, I finally find it.
I happily pop it in, (the cd) and restart. Vista installer starts to load, then I get a screen saying 'Stop Error 01x01003840x010'. I'm now very happy of course, so I hug my computer and say thank you for NOTHING. I reboot, and try again. Wow, same thing.
Well, I take out the pristine CD, wipe it off with my camera's lens cloth and try again.
BINGO! I'm able to 'fix' the 'winload.exe' problem and finally see my logon screen. But what's this? "Installing Updates"?! I wait another five minutes, and then It reboots. Guess where it rebooted to? If you said 'Windows Vista?' you FAIL. I got another BlackScreenOfNothing. So I cautiously reboot once again, let it start up, and FINALLY I get to my logon page WITH the password box. I then type in my password (wouldn't you like to know) and I get in Vista... FINALLY!
But then I get a little box that says 'The program *RunDLL* has stopped working'. The only choice I have here is the little close button.
But wow, way to be vague Vista... Seriously... 'RunDLL', is that like 'RunDMC'? Didn't think so.
In closing, Vista is my new arch enemy. I'll be installing Xp Pro this weekend, alongside WindowBlinds so I can continue to have my 'vista glass' effects.
Now, I'm off to bed. I'll sleep two hours, probably to wake up to a blue screen of death.
But hey, XP is only a day away.
Thanks for reading!
SOLIDUS