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Strike Two, Microsoft...
15 years ago
Up until last night, my Windows 7-running comp was running fine.
Today, it all went to hell. It's suddenly developed all sorts of compatibility issues between the old 32 bit programs held in the x86 folder. iTunes won't work, although that's not much of a loss. I can't run Java in Firefox, and Windows Media won't play DVDs. Most other files seem to be working fine, but then there's the other batch of hateful little errors, and the big daddy fuckup to boot.
The little shits are in my System32 folder, fucking with something called the Cryptographical Service. I have no idea what it is or what it does, but it's not working and it seems to be keeping me from getting new, 64 bit-compatible versions of the programs I need. There are also these error messages that pop up during startup and while my messengers run, citing incompatibility from DLL apps like "AudioSes" and "rasplap". Those are annoying, but I could live with them, if it wasn't for the aforementioned giaganto-asspain that the last thing wrong is.
No. Sound.
That's not completely true; the system beeps and dings still work, but nothing else comes through. No sound on my browsers, no sound on downloaded video, no nothing.
What pisses me off the most is that this came out of nowhere. My upgrade from Vista to 7 went flawlessly, and had been working like a charm for the past few months. Then my computer freezes. I manually restarted, to be greeted by disc checks and all the rest of this horrible crap. So far I've spent around $70 bucks cleaning up my computer, but the fuckups persist.
Seriously, how did Microsoft manage to get where it is today?
Today, it all went to hell. It's suddenly developed all sorts of compatibility issues between the old 32 bit programs held in the x86 folder. iTunes won't work, although that's not much of a loss. I can't run Java in Firefox, and Windows Media won't play DVDs. Most other files seem to be working fine, but then there's the other batch of hateful little errors, and the big daddy fuckup to boot.
The little shits are in my System32 folder, fucking with something called the Cryptographical Service. I have no idea what it is or what it does, but it's not working and it seems to be keeping me from getting new, 64 bit-compatible versions of the programs I need. There are also these error messages that pop up during startup and while my messengers run, citing incompatibility from DLL apps like "AudioSes" and "rasplap". Those are annoying, but I could live with them, if it wasn't for the aforementioned giaganto-asspain that the last thing wrong is.
No. Sound.
That's not completely true; the system beeps and dings still work, but nothing else comes through. No sound on my browsers, no sound on downloaded video, no nothing.
What pisses me off the most is that this came out of nowhere. My upgrade from Vista to 7 went flawlessly, and had been working like a charm for the past few months. Then my computer freezes. I manually restarted, to be greeted by disc checks and all the rest of this horrible crap. So far I've spent around $70 bucks cleaning up my computer, but the fuckups persist.
Seriously, how did Microsoft manage to get where it is today?
stormywolfpup
~stormywolfpup
if its just the release canidate its expired. if not well then i just sound like a dumbass
Orbital_S
~orbitals
OP
Nah, it's the full version. I was on the phone and chat with them for a couple hours today, and we've nailed down that there are a bunch of corrupt files in the system folders. I've gotta do a clean reinstall of the whole thing. XP
stormywolfpup
~stormywolfpup
horray virus's :D i just had to do that to mine i switched back to vista though windows 7 just wasent my thing. and it kept murdering my webcam and bluetooth stuff
Orbital_S
~orbitals
OP
It's not a virus, just a screw-up that got into the code somehow. Probably a power surge or something. 7 didn't crash for me as much as Vista did; just seemed to run smoother and stuff.
