Merry Christmas to you all!
It’s clearly not my day, tho. I came home to find my central heating had broken down. That’s fixed – amazing to get an engineer on Christmas day! – but my Windows Vista laptop has decided to refuse to boot. It gets stuck running CHKDSK.
After some effort and running the repair program on the install disk, I have managed to get it to boot; but it’s still whining a bit about this and that, and it all smacks of hard disk corruption. This means, of course, that I can’t trust it with my data. At this moment I’m typing this using an old laptop, and trying to do a mass copy from the PC to an external hard disk. My data matters far more than the PC, although it’s only a few months old.
The reason I burden you with this is that it will probably affect the progress of my various projects.
What I will need to do is get a new laptop, and make sure the thing has XP on it. I have never had these problems in my entire career – until I bought a machine running Vista, that is.