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Oh Woe is me!

Oh Woe! Woe! Doom and despair! Oh pity poor wretched me who has melted down his computer!

Bummer.

I was fooling around with part of the operating system I ought not to have been fooling with, since I do not know what I am doing. Changing "skins" for windows, making it look "cool," as I thought. And I found upon the World Wide Web a place where one said he could make my computer look "WAY COOL" and I did download his evil program and I did run it without looking at it or really thinking about it. And behold it did summon up the demonic blue screen of death, and did dump memory and did prevent booting up of the computer in any way at all. And lo, I was forced to format my hard disk and reinstall my system to its original factory issued state and all was lost... all was lost... woe is me!

But I have back ups of most everything anyway so it's really not all that bad :-) It is just a royal pain in the neck for sure.

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