(81) Whoops

Guess I forgot to blog last night. But if I would've blogged, it would have been all about my fantastic new Dell laptop!

Well, not really new. As a matter of fact, its the same one I've had for the past three years. But it certainly runs like new. After reinstalling Windows 7, everything magically disappeared. Music, software, The Sims, uTorrent, everything gone. It started to prompt for all kinds of new updates, a lot like the ones that pop up everyday when you get a new laptop. It even had to reinstall a driver (pardon me if my computer ignorance is babbling about wrong things), such as my ATI Radeon graphics... card, thing. I then had to reinstall all updates and antivirus/firewalls that I already had, so it seems to have pretty much restored itself!

When I spoke on the phone with the Dell representative, he told me the first step of a system restore was to reinstall Windows 7, followed by a few other things to reset. Apart of me feels like my restore isn't quite complete, and the packed Recovery drive seems to be vouching for that theory. I have 220 MB free out of 10GB on my D drive, and before I tried to compress everything I only had 14MB. It was fine and had plenty of space before I brought my laptop home from school. It doesn't seem to be causing any major problems, so I guess I'll let it sit tight until I know what to do.

Regardless of my worries, this is fantastic. a 1MB download takes a few seconds rather than a few minutes to download, videos on YouTube run smoothly, I found some hot themes that I never knew existed for Firefox (realistically I never could've gone anywhere near them without my computer freezing), my internet actually runs at high speeds, my computer takes a minute to fully boot up (last time it took 10-15 before I could run ANY programs), and its so refreshing!
Ah, the age of technology. A slow computer made me depressed and I was sucuumed to a feeling of helplessness. Now that its fast and refreshed, I have become lively and happy!
We are so dependent.

In other news, I should be over at the new house today helping my mum and Jim strip wood, but I forgot my phone at Kyle's house last night, so my mom has probably been calling me. That's okay. If she really wanted me there today she would have woken me up this morning and told me to be there at a certain time (snicker). I knew I forgot my phone the moment I got into my car last night, but the last thing I wanted to do was to go knocking on his door while his family was asleep. Sigh. I'll bet people have been calling me, too. Sorry if my phone is going berserk!

I guess I'll be bloggin' later tonight. So far it looks like I have no plans, so I guess I'll write about something that actually matters ;p