Oh, my goodness!

I am now writing my first blog post on my new computer!

It WORKED!!!

It took a day and a half, and five tries at reinstalling Windows. My husband ended up creating a new recovery drive on another USB thumb drive before it finally worked.

It took a while to get that initial set up, of course, but it went through the whole thing.

Also, Windows 11 really, really wanted me to give it access to all sorts of things, then tried to sell me stuff. Granted, giving them access to things might make doing some stuff more convenient, but I’m not about to allow them access to my personal data for that.

I now have to go through what will be a long and tedious process to set everything back up again. Windows, of course, wants to us Edge as the default browser – it doesn’t come with any other – but in the data the computer repair guy saved for me on the external hard drive had a couple of browser files in my downloads. I installed that, but Firefox was not my default browser. I ended up going back to Chrome, which is where all my bookmarks are, but apparently, I don’t have the download to reinstall it anymore.

It’s going to take me weeks to get everything installed and back where I want them.

Meanwhile, the entire layout and appearance of the computer is different. Even the task bar is different.

I am not going to work on that tonight, though. I need a break.

My alarm just went off. I need to find and bring that fluffy tortie in for the night. Then I’m going to install @$%&*@#$ Alien Crossfire and de-stress with some mindless gaming.

I’ll work on it tomorrow, after I bring the cats home from the vet.

The Re-Farmer