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  • AVG 8, My computer and me

    by SlightlyInsane @ 09. Jul 2008 – 15:18:51

    You may or may not know from my previous posts that I had had some issues with AVG 8 and my computer.

    I managed to fix this problem.... or so I thought. Lo and behold, when yesterday my boyfriend turned on my PC to check his e-mail and the PC rebooted itself whilst loading up...

    Whilst loading AVG, I tired everything that I'd done the day before but unfortunately it didn't work this time thus I have had to use system restore to take my computer back to Saturday's settings and thus no AVG which is most annoying.

    I shall now have to try and contact AVG (though they're only e-mail based) to get my £50 back. Shocking I know. I thought it would only cost 36 but obviously that was without tax and at first glance I thought that the backup CD they send as an extra was free... It wasn't.... grrrrr. That'll teach me not be stupid again....

    Anyway I should get ready for work....

    xxx

    PS: I still haven't made back up CDs  I promise to do this soon though.... I think!!!!!

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  • I joined the gym, aren't you proud of me?

    by SlightlyInsane @ 07. Jul 2008 – 14:07:20

    I joined the gym. Are you proud or are you mocking me with your thoughts of "your fitness attempts failed before"....

    I am still slightly in awe of the fact that I have now been to the gym and swimming twice since Thursday. Granted I am not pushing myself amazingly hard as I know what happens when your ideas get the better of you. It never quite works and you just end up feeling achy and cursing the world. Just like that friggin Davina Mccaul work out video with the squats from hell. I think that squats were created by the devil (NB: I'm not in anyway religious, sorry to offend anyone who is!) as every time I do them I cannot walk correcly for days afterwards. In fact I think I resemble something out of a Western movie from decades ago with my bent legged walk. Yet I walk in pain. They walk like that because... well I don't know it's just the cliché cowboy-western walk is it not?

    But yes anyway, I will have to pay about £17 a month since I am a student yet due to the fact that is usually cost £7 to go to the gym and that an adult membership is £35 a month then I think I am rather well off. Unfortunately there is a stupid join up fee of about £30 which will lighten my pocket but I'm sure that it'll alll be good in the end!

    Thursday was my first day and I have to say that I was very nervous. I wasn't as nervous as the guy who gave us the induction though. He was very lovely and kind but he stuttered a bit and you could tell by his selfconscious demeanour that he wasn't the usual gym worker who tend to be very self assured etc. He obviously wasn't one of the 'cool kids' at school. I immeadiately took a liking to him.

    I felt a bit stupid when I first started using the bikes as I couldn't quite get the pin out to lower the seat which was embarressing and then made me wonder if you were even supposed to remove the pin which I'm sure made me colour up to a lovely red colour. I hate the fact that I always blush.... Grrr......

    I finally got the pin out and glanced through the programs picked a manual and then begin palying with my MP3 player to find something to listen to. Obviously the bikes don't have any electricity to them and it's your movement which keeps the screen on -this took me about 3 attempts to realise which then made me understand why the Gym guy (I should really find out his name) said that they were self powered!- I finally started pedalling and really got into it. I then moved to the corss trainer and the rowing machine. Each time trying to remember what I used to do at the last gym (during year 10 I joined the gym next to my school and went on a Tuesday and a Thursday)  and also trying to look like I knew what I was doing, and reading the instructions whilst pretending to check my MP3 player.

    I didn't dare try the running machine. Not yet. I'm most definately not fit enough, and running next to Adam who easily completes 7km in half an hour (though of course very sweaty etc) but still he has the fitness and the driver to do it would make me feel very small and stupid.

    I also have a a propensity to need to pee whenever running on a running machine. I don't know why.

    I even get off and go to the toilet to find what felt like I was going to embarress myself turns out to be so insignificant that I finally understand how my mum felt when she was heavily pregnant with me!

    I also did some sit up's. The gym guy came and commented that I was doing it right and well done... I didn't tell him that I knew because I used to do an abs session at my last gym!!! It made me feel 'wiggly' non-the-less. (Wiggly is my reference to how a happy puppy seems to wriggle with excitement rather than wag!)

    Adam and I also went on Saturday and did some swimming too. Due to forgetting my sports top (which Acts as my sports bra a I have small enough breast and I know if I wear a sports bra I will have non, thus I wear my sports top over my bra but under my top.... I'm not ready to show off my middrift whilst working out. Not that I'm big, but my stomach isn't toned and thus i hate the way it bunches together when I lean over on the bike.... Gosh I'm more of a priss than I thought!

    Ah well. Tonight I'm going to work and then I'm going to the gym. I'm really looking forward to it and tonight the sauna shall be on, so I'm looking forward to that very much!

    xxx

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  • AVG 8 and a computer that wouldn't stay on!

    by SlightlyInsane @ 07. Jul 2008 – 13:44:42

    Last night was a very interesting night. I decided at 9 that I should probably purchase the full version of AVG due to the fact that my virus protection wasn't that amazing and I know that I should try to protect my computer a bit better.

    So there I go to the website and purchase said AVG 8 and begin to download. First time it went a bit odd but second time it was fine. Went through the whole procedure and then restarted the computer....

    Logged on, waited for th the various bits and bobs to load which is basically only the internet and the antivirus. - I hate having more than 3 icons in the bottom right I don't relish them using up valuble CPU and RAM when I'm not even using them. - and the AVG box popped up, and then the computer restarted itself. I was rather shocked at the time and I'm sure my boyfriend -who was on the phone- found it highly amusing when I suddenly stopped midsentene to exclaim "what the buggery?". It then rebooted itself and we went through this process three more time before I realised that this was not going to get better.

    Now I'm a clever user of computers, yet I have been amazingly lazy at not making back up files *blushes accordingly* yes I know very naughty of me *smacks hand* but I am always putting it off until another day. I suppose when I finally do get the blue/black screen of death I will eventually realise I should have been better and be very sad about the millions of things I will have lost and then shell out goodness knows how much for someone to save as much as they possibly can for me!

    I got a bit frantic, and asked my boyfriend to log on and check my e-mails and pass on any details I may need in contacting AVG and he e-mailed them for me.

    Then I had a brain wave and realised that my mum's partner had an ibnternet phone (as have I but being on pay as you go I am loath to use it) thus I used his and connected it to his laptop and went online to figure out what the heck I should do. Finally I figured out how to get the pc into safe mode (the begining screens don't help you do this just tell you F1 for boot option and others that had nothing to do with it.

    Spent about 3 times working out when exactly to press the required f8 and loaded it into save mode and reverted all savings to yesterday. The computer was then fine *big sigh of relief* I re-downloaded the AVG thining there may have been an error but it persisted again, I tried to run the file fixer that comes with the download but obviously pc had other ideas and rebooted before I could do anything. How Joyous!

    I then had another brainwave and started the pc up in safe mode, ran this file fixing thing and with trepidation I rebooted the computer. I let it load and waited for it to laugh in my face and reboot...... Thankfully it didn't and I am now a very happy bunny!

    Needless to say I have yet to make backup copies but I am going to do so tomorrow most definately..... I'm not stupid and I'm not playing with fire anymore!!!!!

    x

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