The bad news just keeps on coming...

I've just spent several hours trying to figure out why my connections (both internet and home network) had slowed to a crawl.

Finally tracked it down. The router was going bad. And failed completely shortly after I confirmed that it was a problem.

Now, being a bright geek, I'd long ago picked up a spare. Identical make/model. So all I'd have to do is hook it up and load the saved config, right?

Unfortunately, I'd already done that a few months back. And hadn't gotten around to sending the original unit back for repair ($75)

So now both the master and the spare were dead. I dragged out another router from the junk box, only thing is, I can't even *do* some of the config stuff that I could with the other. And a few things I can do, have to be done a lot differently. Argh...

MS suckage...

Working on Lin's computer.

The hardware upgrades went fine but at some point (probably when I imported the settings and mail from her old system) automatic updates forgot a number of the updates it'd done and can no longer install the ones it thinks the system needs.

So I'm spending hours downloading fixs by hand and installing them one at a time.

MS *really* isn't ready for prime time...