Merry Christmas
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Dec 29th, 2008 | 04:58 AM
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I would have wished Fororits Merry Christmas, except both my computers too a trip this holiday seasons, and spent most of the holidays at the service department of Future Shop.
Lessons for us all:
1/ Even with good anti-virus software, it is possible to get hiot. (One one computer, all the icons disappeared off sccreen. When restarted, the icons would stay on-screen for only a second of two, disappear for a monute or so, returrn again for another second or two,...)
Nothing obviously wrong with the second one, but the technician reported a trojan.
Don't trust your e-mail program's sub-folders as an archive for e-mails. We carefully pulled out business messages we received and placed them each in a client specific folder, and now the folders have disappeared in the rebilding process.
3/ We were back and forth to Future Shop at least six times, and spent hours in a Starbucks in Chapters in the same plaza waiting for things we were told would take and hour and really took four, five, overnight..... Getting coffeee refills free with a Starbucks card is a good thing.
$/ Through ti all, we still think Future Shop service was good, even though we're taking the other computer back this a.m. to try to get contacts linked to e-mail, and find all the contacts added in the past four or five months. (At least we've recovered all the e-m,ails since April, which had disappeared for a while)
6/ TEchnicians recommend a manual backup, in addition to automation. Just drag the documents folder to an expertnal hard drive every once in a while.
All in all, annoying but none the less relaxing -- got to read and watch tv and play with a visiting dog plus our own dog..
So, HAPPY NEW YEARTS from us.
BAK
Lessons for us all:
1/ Even with good anti-virus software, it is possible to get hiot. (One one computer, all the icons disappeared off sccreen. When restarted, the icons would stay on-screen for only a second of two, disappear for a monute or so, returrn again for another second or two,...)
Nothing obviously wrong with the second one, but the technician reported a trojan.
Don't trust your e-mail program's sub-folders as an archive for e-mails. We carefully pulled out business messages we received and placed them each in a client specific folder, and now the folders have disappeared in the rebilding process.
3/ We were back and forth to Future Shop at least six times, and spent hours in a Starbucks in Chapters in the same plaza waiting for things we were told would take and hour and really took four, five, overnight..... Getting coffeee refills free with a Starbucks card is a good thing.
$/ Through ti all, we still think Future Shop service was good, even though we're taking the other computer back this a.m. to try to get contacts linked to e-mail, and find all the contacts added in the past four or five months. (At least we've recovered all the e-m,ails since April, which had disappeared for a while)
6/ TEchnicians recommend a manual backup, in addition to automation. Just drag the documents folder to an expertnal hard drive every once in a while.
All in all, annoying but none the less relaxing -- got to read and watch tv and play with a visiting dog plus our own dog..
So, HAPPY NEW YEARTS from us.
BAK
