Computer woes continued.....

Some of the apps I was running at the time of the crash are now toast and need to be reinstalled. Office 97 (taskbar), Norton SystemWorks (an alleged problem with the license), Yahoo! Instant Messenger. Oh, I can dial out and connect, but then I get DNS errors, saying it can't find the server. So no more email and LJ from my desktop for a while.

At least I didn't lose any data, as far as I know.

Computer woes solved (for now)!

Between doing a system restore and attempting to remove both Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security -- both removals failed -- I was able to restore my ability to surf the web, download email, and read LJ from my desktop computer.

I still should try to remove and reinstall the Norton products, as pervasive as they are. [Updated 20-Sep 12:40 EDT] Thankfully Symantec has a Norton Removal tool available for download on their website. I'll try that tonight.

When did Symantec jump the shark? Their Norton Utilities for DOS were some of the best around.