Monday afternoon, winds above 15 mph, complete power outage. A tree limb had fallen on the power line into Madisonville (yes, THE power line.) APC battery backups kicked in saving both computers, or so we thought. Anna just turned hers off but gee, this is WIN 10 not DOS 3.3 so I powered mine down the 'approved way.'

Power came back on several hours later, Anna's computer booted fine (we have the exact same systems and OS) mine... Mine stopped at the welcome screen. Twenty plus attempts and it stayed stuck, the only option was a repair 'disk.' Anna made one using a 32 GIG jump drive as required by OS-10, nine hours to create. NINE HOURS! Next day I used it to get my system up... ONCE!

Finally I used the 'repair' function to 'fix' win 10, lost everything that wasn't Microshits software, which was most of the programs I use. Two days later and I had a barely functioning system, lost most of my Firefox bookmarks because my last bookmark file was in early 2014. I still can't get into several websites because I've long forgotten what the password is and I forgot to update my e-mail. Moving to this village (4420 souls, mostly Republican) so places like Deviant Art are still blocked, my book with all my passwords vanished while moving. Still hunting that and Firefox? Doesn't look anything like what I was using before, lot of utility programs are DOA as well, I paid for them but well....

Forget World of Tanks, World of Warships and Fallout Four, they are flat gone and I haven't had the password to the World programs in over a year.

Good thing is that after reloading and setting up Word Perfect all my writing is still accessible, that stuff was on the E drive (forget anything on the C drive, it's gone.) Be a year of three before I'm comfortable with what I have.

Reese

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