If it ain't broke...
December 24th 2007 08:06
One of these days I must attend to my computer here at home. I haven’t had to deal with it while we’ve been in the UK because we took the laptop; the PC might have been a bit difficult to lug around!
When I open it up I get two messages which warn me about something – I never notice what it is anymore because clicking OK gets me past them. And then another message arrives telling me that the computer can’t find something on the hard drive. I ignore that too because obviously the computer can manage without the file it’s talking about as it’s managed to do so umpteen times.
And then, when I’ve finished working on the thing for the day, it often won’t switch off by itself. Sometimes I’ve forgotten to check, and gone to bed, or come home after a day’s work, and find that it’s still telling me it’s closing down. I know it’s not, because if it takes eight hours to do it, it’s forgotten how!
It’s a bit like a funny rattle in a car. As long as it’s not stopping the car going from A to B, you tend to ignore it (unless you’re a mechanic, which I’m not). I’m sure these things could be sorted; maybe I could even sort them out myself by going on Google and checking them out, but blogging and writing and composing and other things are more interesting, so the messages and the lack of ability to close down happen every time I use the computer.
Perhaps it’s risky to leave it. Perhaps not. Perhaps in the end it’s not worth the time I could spend on it.
If it works, get on with life!
When I open it up I get two messages which warn me about something – I never notice what it is anymore because clicking OK gets me past them. And then another message arrives telling me that the computer can’t find something on the hard drive. I ignore that too because obviously the computer can manage without the file it’s talking about as it’s managed to do so umpteen times.
And then, when I’ve finished working on the thing for the day, it often won’t switch off by itself. Sometimes I’ve forgotten to check, and gone to bed, or come home after a day’s work, and find that it’s still telling me it’s closing down. I know it’s not, because if it takes eight hours to do it, it’s forgotten how!
It’s a bit like a funny rattle in a car. As long as it’s not stopping the car going from A to B, you tend to ignore it (unless you’re a mechanic, which I’m not). I’m sure these things could be sorted; maybe I could even sort them out myself by going on Google and checking them out, but blogging and writing and composing and other things are more interesting, so the messages and the lack of ability to close down happen every time I use the computer.
Perhaps it’s risky to leave it. Perhaps not. Perhaps in the end it’s not worth the time I could spend on it.
If it works, get on with life!
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