Computer destructed.

Friday afternoon, via a horrendous registry accident (LOL PAY ATTENTION IF YOU ARE MANUALLY DELETING VALUES DIRECTLY UNDER THE SOFTWARE TREE, BECAUSE IF YOU MISCLICK, YOU DIE), I completed destroyed my main PC. After a failed restore/merge of my backup software hive, somehow Windows XP died on reboot, and now completely refuses to get past the initial boot screen. To top it all off, it has locked me out of all my own accounts and/or changed the password algorithm, so I can't even access the recovery console to repair my registry. I spent about 6 hours trying to do everything to get around this, up to resetting all admin passwords to blank, yet it refuses to authorize me..so I'm guessing I royally fucked up whatever component checks passwords. My only option is to reinstall Windows XP, but I can't find my disc, so I will have to wait until next week to get ahold of a new one. In the meantime, I will opt to play PS2 a lot instead of try and use my secondary PC which sucks.

Thus, I will not be making any new updates aside from this one for however long it takes me to fix my desktop.

Posted by Paranda at September 4, 2005 4:19 AM

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