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The good news: the store is FINALLY ready to open, I have tomorrow off, and Margaret is coming to visit.

The bad news: next week's schedule still isn't up and my desktop has crashed or something, I don't know. Doing another Windows Repair installation to try and fix it, will report back. Thank dragons for the netbook.

Also, Elphie is cute.

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Still having "fun" with my desktop. VERY frustrated because today was supposed to be day to relax and just run a few errands until Margaret gets here. Not deal with this crap (and not be facing the reality that my desktop might actually be dead for good because if I can't fix it myself, it's not worth paying someone to fix for me).

I'm getting this error on start-up: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file."

I'm working my way through the potential solutions listed here. Currently on option 4 because the first three did not work. Edit: Make that option 5 -_-



Also, just FYI, no idea what caused this. Dad came to my apartment yesterday, turned the computer on, and this popped up. I have NO idea what triggered it as I haven't changed anything on the computer since the last re-start (which was worrying because I had installed a new driver for my video card and that historically has NOT worked out but this time it did...my computer was actually running pretty good before this *frustratedface*)

SEND TECH HELP PLZ!

Okay, computer people. As mentioned in my last two posts, my desktop is giving me weird errors. I've tried all the solutions I could find at PC Support EXCEPT for a clean install. That is the option I am facing now.

I am sure there are some weird things going on because when I go into the Repair Console it gives me two options of installations to repair ... neither of which are "Windows" (one is Mini-something and the other is I think the i-some numbers thing).

I don't want to clean install because I have put all my files BACK on my desktop from the netbook. But there is nothing on my computer that I can't replace (my writing is all on the netbook, which would be the main concern).

So, if anyone has any other ideas, let me know. If not, I'll do a clean install at some point and hopefully that will fix things (and if not then I clearly know the computer is toast and will figure out where I go from there).