Computer Woes

Why is it that everytime I think "hey, maybe it's time I burn a CD with all of the files I need from my laptop.." that my laptop decides to crap its pants?? I bought a pretty sweet Epson photo scanner on Friday night and scanned in a whole shit load of pictures, and though "I better burn a CD with some of these pictures I've been scanning". The scanner is very fast & very easy to use and after scanning a bunch of pictures, and burning the CD with all of my prized files, I decided to head off to bed for the night. I woke up Saturday morning & immediately started experiencing some "issues" with my laptop. To make a long story short, I think I had some type of virus that was hogging up all of my memory - I couldn't get on the internet for very long, and the computer would randomly freeze up & have to be shut down manually.

How great is that timing? I have 2 big tests that I have to take this week in my classes & alot of studying & online work to do. UGHHHHHHHHHH

Kristin (my 23 year old niece) came over on Sunday and worked on the laptop for almost 8 hours and after consulting with a friend of hers who seems very knowledgable about computers, etc, we decided the best course of action was to reinstall the whole operating system. Actually what I really wanted to do was to pulverize the shitty Dell laptop with a sledgehammer.

I WILL NEVER BUY A DELL AGAIN!