THAT is a good, secure system. You have the best of both worlds: “random”, unique, long passwords and encrypted, handwritten notes to aid your memory.
Yeah that really is a good solution to the password problem!
That said, I believe everyone’s prayers are beginning to help. Earlier I was going to do a Windows Restore and for some reason, my wireless keyboard refused to allow me to use the F8 key during the booting process. I tried at least 3 times because I thought that perhaps I wasn’t doing it at the right time. I also hit the F8 key several times during each try because I know how easy it is for a speedier computer to zoom on by the boot process part that requires you to hit the F8 key.
Anyway, I because it refused to let me use the F8 key, I shut down the computer manually before Windows finished booting. I know that this is normally a potentially dangerous thing to do as it can mess up your Windows loading process.
Well, I was in luck. By some miracle, I chose to give Windows one more try and to search for another solution. As it was booting up, Windows Startup Repair Wizard came on. I let it do it’s thing just in case there was any startup problems. Well, there was a problem because it fixed something that was preventing my Norton 360 3.0 from letting me know about Norton 360 4.0 and my eligibility to update it.
Needless to say, when Windows booted up and Norton notified me of the new update, I immediately downloaded it because I knew that the new version of Norton would be far better than my then current version which was 3.0. I then finished updating it (ran Live Update several times to make sure it was updated) and once that was all finished, I headed back to the tech support forum that was giving me advice on how to fix this.
The technician on this free site then told me to download, run, and save a log file of a popular diagnostic utility. I did so and then put the contents of the log file in a post for him to review. I am now waiting on a response about my log file and what I need to do to fix any problems.
If this doesn’t work, I plan to scan my computer for viruses again soon (which I’ll do within 24 hours anyway so it’s not like it’s a special job that I have to do) in order to check once again for viruses and other malware.
Hopefully the solutions that I have in mind and/or the solutions that the technician has in mind will solve my problem. If it doesn’t, I may very well resort to a Windows Restore. I really don’t want to do that though cause I have at least 50 GB of data on this computer including approximately 30 GB of files that I don’t feel like taking the time to back up right now (I neither had the money nor the discs to back up my files in the past and so I neglected it). I am still pondering my solutions and other things related to the problem. As I continue to think, I will inevitably come up with some sort of solution whether that be a Windows Restore or just a heck of a lot of steps to fix my existing installation of Windows. I honestly prefer the the complex process (latter process/solution) because if I have to download and reinstall Windows Updates, all my programs (that are safe and wanted), and all other files, it could take a good week or so to get that done. I have DSL but some files on my computer have setup files that are pretty big 100-500 GB and those take an hour or two to download on my DSL sometimes. Plus there is the fact that I am not sure how to download Windows Updates and Norton 360 updates using a secure connection before any other programs are allowed to load. The reason I mention this is because if I have to connect to the internet using a temporarily unsecured computer, that still gives hackers plenty of a chance to reinfect my computer and start the process all over again.
So yeah, please continue to pray that God will give me the knowledge, wisdom, patience, and anything else needed to fix this computer without doing a Windows Restore! Thanks!
