Cav's Place

Decided that something’s really wrong with my Windows 7 install, so after fighting with myself over it over the weekend, seeing as I was too afraid of messing this up as well, Monday I installed Vista again on the second HDD, with all the old drivers and the old versions of all programs, to at least get back to what I had and know that I’ll have this to fall back to whenever something goes wrong, and perhaps also when I happen to want to watch something on TV, seeing as the problems my old TV tuner has with Windows 7 are undeniable. Next would be reinstalling Windows 7 and taking it step by step with drivers and newer versions of important software, to see what goes wrong and when and then decide where to go from there, but I don’t see myself doing that while I’m in such a state and don’t see myself getting out of this state unless it’ll work, and possibly not even then, so that’s a big problem.
At the same time, BitDefender seems to have launched an offensive against MiniDuke, the result of which is wrongly flagging many simple executables as variants of it, including my one attempt to make an actual Windows executable while briefly trying to teach myself D, back in 2010. There seem to be other issues around this time as well, with many others complaining on the forums of similar issues with very simple programs written in a variety of programming languages, false outbreak detections or wrongly blacklisted sites, so they certainly broke something in the definitions database while trying to look for variants of this and it sure came at the wrong time for me, one little issue being that, after I had to undelete the file, it obviously no longer has its original date to mark when I gave up on trying to learn that.

Seeing as I was alone these days, I also wanted to put the old IDE HDD into dad’s computer and, while I was there, also scan a few more things for MobyGames, and perhaps also for Goodreads. However, though I kept saying every few hours that I really should get to it, I never even got close to that computer, and the only time I touched the old HDD was when I put it in the box I hold all other computer stuff in before cleaning my room today, so at this point I’m not sure when or even if I’ll manage to get myself to do that.
It should all start to slowly fall into place once I’ll find a starting point and then learn the quirks of Windows 7, as well as those of all the other new programs and versions, but that’ll require trying first. I mean, Vista is very quirky, but I’ve been using it for nearly five years now, and have also been using the other programs for many years, the video driver is still the one from 2009, so I had a very long time to get used to all the issues and know how to mitigate them. For example, avoided a computer freeze just earlier today, after spotting the signs right away and immediately doing what a lot of trial and error taught me has to be done in such moments. But having any new issue, which I won’t know how to deal with, pop up when I’m in such a state will just make me freeze in panic, so I really have no idea what to do…