It did not work, but was kind of relaxing

Hello all.   So Sunday I decided to dump my video computer, clean out some old stuff, clean it up, reorganize it, and tweak the setting.   The reason was I had a Microsoft security update that kept faulting out on installation.  I did a quick search on it, did not see anything about it online, and Ron kept pushing me to do stuff to distract me.   I had suffered from the resurfacing of some abuse memories, I was feeling sick because on Thursday I had steroid injections into my spine, Friday I got allergy shots, and then this weekend I was to take my testosterone injection and that really hurts.  Then to top it off, the new roof has leaked and water leaked down into the ceiling and now we had mold growing in the bedroom.   

I decided to do a full deep clean.   I could have just reset windows and left the drive alone.   But I wanted a good clean up.  So I had the computer wipe the drives, remove everything on them, which means I had to rebuild the directories, switching things from the C drive to the D drive that has twice the room for data, photos, videos, movies, TV, and any other storage needs than the C drive which I save for program files.  That took most of one day.  Then Monday I was really feeling badly, and noticed I still had the same issue.  This time I did a deep dive search in the error codes and self repair.  It involved the size of the rescue environment section on the hard drive.  I was seeing how large I would have to make it to fix the issue when I saw that a lot of people who tried this self repair did not get the issue fixed and had to end up reinstalling windows and or repartitioning their hard drives again.  While I have good software for this and have done it many times, I was not wanting to spend the time because I was not feeling well.  Still am not. So I did what I should have done in the very first place.  I started reading the Microsoft Windows support community posts, and more important, the replies from Microsoft staff.   Turns out on Jan 10th they released a statement acknowledging the problem, the failure of the update to install on a lot of computers and they were working on a fix for the next batch of Windows updates.  Everything I had done until then and the next day and half of putting all my programs back on and their settings correct, was not needed.   Grrr.   All because I did not want to spend a half a day wading through all the community support stuff I ended up doing anyway.   Well I was distracted from the other issues.   Hugs.   Scottie

2 thoughts on “It did not work, but was kind of relaxing

    1. Hi Ali. Been a hard three days here. I have not been able to sleep, but too tired to do anything. But yes I think it will be OK. I have a drag issue on that computer I am concerned about. If I think it cannot be fixed, otherwise I may have to drop the same computer again. Hugs. Scottie

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