And so it goes on…

A frustrating week. I had hoped to prepare and send some poems off to a couple of competitions this week but that unfortunately, was not to be. We have reached Friday and the impending weekend alone with kids means I will have little time to do the things I want to do.

I have spent the last two days just setting up my laptop again. Once I had re-installed Windows, it immediately went off and found 111 updates. I installed those and decided then to install some of the other software I normally use, however it seems that everything moves with increasing speed and my operating system in its current state would not support the newer versions of the software I wanted. So back to Windows updater and another 83 updates later I have my computer up and running almost the way like it.

I still have one rather erratic and irritating problem that I have yet to mange to sort. When I type, every few letters the cursor jumps back either a few words or up a few lines and inserts the text I am typing there rather than where I want it to go, i.e. where it makes sense.

I have Googled this problem to no avail, it appears that it is a problem with this particular brand of laptop but no one has as yet come up with a solution that works. Changing the keyboard or mouse/touchpad settings as no effect. It wouldn’t be such a problem if it wasn’t so erratic, I have managed to type most of this paragraph without  a problem but then suddenly the cursor will jump half way up the page and to the middle of another word and insert whatever I am typing in there. As a  result it has taken me more than half an hour just to type this short piece, which is very frustrating. I guess I could just type and see what comes out but it would probably jut be gobbledy-gook.

So this is, necessarily, a short post and until I get this problem solved most of my posts will be short as there is only so long I can cope with this erratic behaviour.

(No apologies for errors or typos, it is not my fault!)

 

Damn computers!

My laptop decided to go doolally and wouldn’t load windows, so I have spent the last three days trying find a solution to the problem. Unfortunately, nothing I tried worked. I have just had to do a factory restore and reload all my software. I am very grateful for Google account which remember all my passwords and favorites. Thankfully, I also do regular online back ups so haven’t lost any of my files.

It just seems such a waste of my time, I wanted  spend this week writing, not messing around getting a computer to work.

However, I do feel inordinately proud of myself for being able to do it, many I know would have given up at the first hurdle and taken it to the nearest computer repair shop.