icelightning | Computer Troubles Be Gone!

Yup, my computer's been sick these last couple of days, but I finally fixed her up. The fixes, in order:

1. I DVD-Red approximately 45 Gigs of movies, files, and etc. off of my harddrive. (I had to group files first, then 20 minutes per DVD, and I wrote out 10 DVDs.... Then I had to check each DVD to make sure the files copied right.)

2. Defragged my C (System), D (Applications), and E (User Files) drives for the first time ever. I would have defragged sooner if I wasn't afraid that Visual Studio was going to rape my system for doing so. Because that program is a BITCH.

3. Had Dad help me discover approximately 2 gig in useless files on my System drive. Thank you very much, Microsoft Visual Fuck-You Studio. (It also managed to kill my memory and cause hundreds of memory errors long before I decided that Computer Science wasn't worth my time if it was going to kill my computer whenever I did a project.)

4. Uninstalled DivX.

5. Deleted more useless programs and shit. All from Computer Science. Sorry, that major is too disorganized for even me. Made us install a ton of programs we'll never use.

6. Found out it was Severus Snape's birthday on the 9th. Hah.

7. Had Dad reallocate the drive that was supposed to be for the CS Linux install to my System Drive. There shall not be another "You are low on disk space." message on this computer! It went from 2 gig of freespace to 17.6 gigs of freespace.

8. Defragged C, D, and F (Multimedia). F's first time being defragged. Man was I seeing red. Lots of fragmentation, and more had occurred on C after all that file deleting--although the disk space from the Unix Install that never happened wasn't fragged because it had only ever held 2kb of data. Heh. And I had waited to defrag F because that's where the most of the 45 gig came off of. Although it's more like 43. Oh well.

9. Uninstalled IrfanView (because I was certain DivX had f'ed it up).

10. Reinstalled IrfanView.

11. Reinstalled DivX.

12. Cried for joy at how my computer now booted up as if it had been reborn again.

13. Got Everquest working through the firewall again, intent on giving my stuff away to other players so that Mom could cancel my account.

14. Got readdicted to Everquest. Oops.

15. Saved some newbie asses on Everquest. Superior Heal feels nice, doesn't it? Especially when you get it for free and get exp from the mobs afterwards.

16. Went to bed early again. This had happened over a good number of days, but I can't remember when I started it nor how many times I went to bed inbetween start and finish.

17. Marvelled at my happy computer.

Lessons to be learned from this:

1. Don't install Microsoft Development Software. It'll rape your system and then piss on it afterwards. There's no other way to describe it.

2. Defrag more often.

3. If you do not have a DVD Writable Drive, GET ONE AND GET SHIT OFF YOUR COMPUTER.

4. Once addicted, Evercrack shall never let you go.

I went from "running out of space" to having 63.35% freespace. Out of 114.36 gigs (120 before formatting) of space, I still have 72.45 gigs remaining. Yay. Now I gotta figure out what the hell to do with it.