My wife was having trouble with her Dell desktop, so I offered to reformat the hard drive for her on Sunday. I’m only moderately computer ignorant, so I figured that I could accomplish this task with relative ease – particularly since I’ve done it before. Or, so I thought…

I struggled greatly with reconfiguring the network card and Internet connection. I spoke with Dell tech support (in India) and my ISPs tech support (in Alberta, Canada) several times before I resolved the issue.

I finally got her ‘puter up and working by Monday morning. Since I work graveyard and day sleep, I told my wife that I’d finish loading her programs when I woke up Monday afternoon. By that time, though, she’d loaded several and, again, mucked up her computer.

That put me back at square one.

Fear not, I thought – I’ll utilized the ‘restore’ function on her Windows ME operating system and simply restore her computer back to when I went to bed and I’ll load the programs more carefully.

But, the restore function didn’t work.

Hmm, I thought, I’ll go to the Microsoft Windows Update page to see if there is any kind of a fix or patch dealing with the restore function. Sure enough, there was.

I downloaded the patch and attempted again to restore a previous point on her computer. But, dammit, the download deleted my previously saved restore points. So my restore is now irretrievable.

I hate Bill Gates. You never hear of these types of problems with Apple. Microsoft puts out crap products.

Incidentally, while I consider myself a relatively even-keeled person, I tend to rage when frustrated with my computer. My rage is, of course, predicated on my own ignorance. I’m not mad at my wife or my computer, I’m mad at myself that I’m not educated enough on this issue to solve it in a timely manner.

I suck, but I still hate Bill Gates.

Oh, when I got to work, I found that there was no Internet connection at my work computer and because I work graveyard, the IT guy wouldn’t come in to fix it until regular business hours.

I hate Bill Gates…

Credits: Joe Kelley