March 12, 2009, MicroSUX, updated my computer for me overnight. Got up to find my mouse and keyboard no longer worked. Spent several hours trying to figure out how to fix it. The PS/2 mouse and keyboard worked on my XP, but not such luck using the XP mouse and keyboard on the Vista machine. Thought of hardware failure, and about to rip the cover off (almost literally), and check it out, but remembered I had a USB optical mouse stuffed in a drawer, that I never got around to using. Plugged it in, and worked fine. So, messed around, with the diagnostics, downloading new drivers and such. Still no keyboard, which makes it kind of tough to navigate. Rolled back two days, to the reset point before the updates, and the PS/2 stuff worked again, but kind slow, because Windows was busy with the hard drive, trying re-install the updates, which again disabled the keyboard. Went to Walmart and bought a cheap, $9.98 USB keyboard, problem solved, until the next update.
Was wondering if anybody else got the same gift from Microsoft, or if there might be some other conflict. My free subscription to Norton Anti-Virus expired months ago, but its been pestering me to fix. They want 50 bucks to upgrade, since my version is no longer supported. Wondering, if they are foul enough to send me a little late night incentive to renew my interest in their over-priced product. Spybot and Windows Defender both say my computer is clean...
Just needed to blow off some steam, wasted half a day on this thing.
Was wondering if anybody else got the same gift from Microsoft, or if there might be some other conflict. My free subscription to Norton Anti-Virus expired months ago, but its been pestering me to fix. They want 50 bucks to upgrade, since my version is no longer supported. Wondering, if they are foul enough to send me a little late night incentive to renew my interest in their over-priced product. Spybot and Windows Defender both say my computer is clean...
Just needed to blow off some steam, wasted half a day on this thing.