8.19.2009

laptop woes

dont ever download customized windows logon.


coz i did, and it slowed down my laptop especially when its starting and shutting down. i should never believe product reviews coz the main point of it is to sell the item. of course everything will be flowery to convice downloaders. i was one of those suckers. it says in the review that i can customize the way windows starts, so i was thinking i could set my own wallpaper or something like that. i dint know that the program would not allow you to do that, it would only give you 2 options to choose from: a fugly wallper about saving the earth and the other one i cant remember anymore. so after installing it, i gave it a few days. i realized i couldnt really stand it anymore so i uninstalled it. well what do you know, even after doing that, it still there.

i downloaded another program to uninstall it again and totally remove it from the registry but its still there! i checked the program files and there still is a folder of customized windows logon w/ one file remaining: vocgina or something like that. i tried to delete it but it just keeps giving me an error. so i looked it up online and one forum said i should rename the file. and i did. it says search for the file in the registry and rename it. i restarted and thats when all my problems started. it wont restart. i tried to do a system restore, last known good config, safe mode, to no avail. had no choice but to contact aj again, my tech guy.

of course he fixed it. he only charges me P250 for formating and reinstalling everything., which i think is cheap already. im sure he's thankful that there are wanna-be geeks like me who download anything and everything they can get their hands on just to pimp their desktop.

this all happened last sunday. i brought the laptop to him last monday, got it back tuesday. im sure you dint even notice i was gone :)

so my tip for all those wanna-be's who are thinking of pimping their laptops, think again.

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