What a crappy day...

First I was looking at the forum here and I got to thinking that the thread titles seemed a little faded looking. I looked at another site or two and checked my monitor driver... still, the they headers looked faded grey when I thought they should look more black. SO... I went into personalization, under "Ease of Access"... and proceeded to mess up all my colors and fonts and couldn't figure out what to do to change things back. I had a purple color on my taskbar and the font at the very top of a window was a smallish bold looking thing that was horrible... so I decided to do a system restore. The system restore fixed all my fonts and color scheme but it disabled my anti-virus. I use Norton 360 Security Suite because it works and is free with Comcast... however I was not paying attention and downloaded something called ConstantGuard... I stopped the install before it was finished and wound up having to open regedit to get rid of the Norton 360 that was aparrantly still here but not so I could see or use it... and I could not delete in because it said it was in use by another program. I FINALLY got it and constant guard OFF my machine by removing what I could from the registry then I could delete the rest from the folders where it had lived.
So.. I am not downloading Norton 360 again, praying that it will work. There is nothing like spending half a day trying to fix something that wasn't broke (until I broke it).
As for my display, it seems to involve the angle of the monitor. If I angle it back just a bit the colors are more vibrant and don't look faded however at this angle I get a glare from a lamp. I also notice with this forum that if the monitor is tilted either forward or back, little squares, maybe 1/2" in size appear on the sides of the screen and the colors fade. If I get it where the squares are completely gone, then it looks best but.. there is the glare. I don't know why I have never noticed this before or why it became a problem for me today. I guess it was just slated to become a problem today... If Norton gives me any more trouble I will try MS Essentials unless there is something better, secure but less intrusive I can use. I can put Norton on "silent" mode so it wont do anything while I am working and that seems to be fine but I am pen to using something else, especially if I have ANY more trouble.
Oh, we had a few inches of rain last night and today and the power went off twice. I got up in the night and unplugged the laptops and my amp... well I thought I did, I actually unplugged my laptop from the computer and then from the surge protector where it an my amp are plugged in. Thankfully we didn't get a close strike... however the chicken I was slow cooking almost didn't get cooked. I lost a couple of hours when the power went off around noon. It kicked the crock pot off and I didn't notice it until 2:00.
I'm glad every day isn't like this.
The grand daughters were a nice treat but the 11 YO slept till 11:00 and the 5 YO got up before me (I got up when she did).. ate some cereal... had tummy trouble while the 11 YO watched a movie on her iPOD with headphones. I almost get the feeling that they really don't want to be here as much as they once did... especially the older one. We have always been really close, I know... she is just growing up, hormones.. cries at the least little thing. I'm sorry... I know you don't need to hear this crap but I needed to say it.
70% downloaded.... man this is a slow download. I better d a speed check... I really do think I need a new router.
 
So, how is your day?
 
J

Sorry to read that.
Hang in there, my friend.

Thanks guys... I wish kids could stay 6yo forever.
 
Norton is fixed, fonts and colors are fixed... all is well (knock on wood).
 
J

And you're imagining the little squares.
We all are.

Today's a new day, J!

craigb

Beagle
Today's a new day, J!

You sure?  'Cause it seems recycled somehow... 

Bill Murray?

Is it today again?? LOL