Thanks, I'll keep you in mind.
Don't worry though heh, I've done silly things too.
I've wanted to change my XP theme to a visualstyle, but you know how you have to hack the uxtheme.dll file before Windows accepts it and all? Well, I did that all manually, except.. I think I had something else on my clipboard, and instead of replacing the original dll with the hacked version, I replaced it with a different system file on my clipboard (I think it was explorer.exe). I didn't even check to make sure it was right, and I cancelled my way out of Window's evil "Replace if altered system file" policy thing, and rebooted. Argh. Computer boots up with "uxtheme.dll not found in library", with - no desktop, no taskbar, no.. absolutely nothing. No Explorer, especially. Only thing I could do was Ctrl+Alt+Del. Safe Mode was exactly the same. Oh, and no mouse either.
Then I was hit by a brainwave. I went to my little brother's computer, copied the original dll file onto a USB, and came back here. I figured I'd replace it. But.. how, if there's no Explorer? I tried Safe Mode with cmd prompt, and had to remember how to change directories. I
cd'd my way to the guessed drive letter of the USB, found the file, but - I hadn't a clue how to copy it. Oh well, I scrapped the whole idea because I was so sick of command prompt.
Then another brain wave hit me. You know in Ctrl+Alt+Del, that "New Task" button? Hit Browse and.. it takes you straight to Explorer! Oh joy! From there, I found the USB, copied the system file and placed it onto my computer, rebooted and.. ta-dah! Life was good again.
It was pretty stressful for me though, I had a hand-in assessment on the next day and it was all on my computer. Hadn't gotten into the habit of backing up. Now I always backup to a USB, external drive and FTP server. Talk about paranoia.
Anywho - that was my little adventure. lol
During these holidays though... I want to open up my computer and check which type of RAM I have. Can't remember if it was DDR or.. whatever the other one was. SDR. DD. SD. I don't know, lol. Something like that. And then I can graduate from my inadequate 448megs. *shudder*
Oh and I also want/need to reformat my external drive, and vacuum the dust out of my computer. It's.. dusty in there. :mad1:
Kaitlyn.
(who's well and truly done ranting for a little while
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PS: bringbackshred, which distro are you using now?