After a highly discouraging bout last month with Katie’s evil, evil PC, I once again made the trip to Jersey to attempt fixing it.
This time, I followed along with Gina Trapani’s excellent PC resuscitation guide by bringing a copy of Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware anti-spyware software and a copy of a Fixefox 1.0 in case Internet Explorer kept pissing me off.
While Internet Explorer updated via dialup from version 5 to 6 (a leisurely two hours), Katie and I ordered some pizza and played Scrabble. (I won by one point.) I ran Ad-Aware several times and installed Firefox for good measure. Oddly, everything seemed to be working OK on the ‘net via both Explorer and Firefox. I was able to connect to various web sites, including the previously inaccessible Hotmail, even after restarting the computer and trying again with a new connection.
My fingers are crossed.