I don't reset my computer very often -- I usually leave it on to make major backups or downloads at night. For that reason, and because I have Vista Ultimate, I install updates nearly every time I reset. This most recent time, it installed 19 updates.
And suddenly, everything that has giving me trouble over the last year or so works.
Two things particularly had given me so much trouble during the installation process that I gave up on them. The first was a panel of card readers on the front panel of the computer. When the computer was originally planned, I was going to have a ton of fans. It proved to be impossible to fit them all into the medium-sized case. The panel I bought is a Sunbeam 5.25" panel that has slots for SD, CF, SM, and MS cards, 2 USB, 1 Firewire, 2 SATA, and various media connections. Crucially, it also contained a temperature gauge and fan speed dials.
Of course, I use the fan speed and temp gauges, but the cards wouldn't work. Today, they do. So I no longer need to use my USB adapter just to copy things onto my phone mini-SD card! Hooray!
The other thing is my Palm -- it always refused to sync, even via Bluetooth, with Outlook. Now it does. I tried it on a lark - what I felt was a futile gesture ended up being perfectly productive. Now I just need to actually get my contact list back up to what it used to be, and start using my calendar again.
I'm almost there. The organizational Nirvana of creating an item on my calendar on my phone, coming home, and seeing it in Outlook is near...Labels: computers, electronics, Microsoft, miracles, Palm |
