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PC brought back to life

Ok, it took a day or so of messing about, but I’ve got the machine up and running again. After 11 years of daily use, 6-15 hours a day, my hard drive final developed a single bad spot. About 40,000 hours I think. Wouldn’t you know it, it was right on the boot information area. So I had to do the full rigamarole to make it better. Boot from a disk - ha, what’s a disk? Took me 2 hours just to find them! - run the diagnostics, move the files, mark the sector, clean out the trash, toss extra files, uninstall junk programs I never use, compress and defrag the HD, et cetera et al. I have a whole slew of digital computer tools that almost never get used, but when things go all topsy-turvy, I’m glad they’re there. That is, if I can get the machine up and running in Safe Mode to get to them.

So anyway, crisis avoided, Window put back in, service packs and a quarter million security updates reinstalled, blah blah blah ... and it’s a computer once again. And it even boots a bit faster, now that I’ve once again trimmed down all the myriad background processes that Windows wants to run.

Hey Peiper, nice cartoon with the bears there. Looks awfully familiar somehow! LOL Thanks again!!

Meanwhile, I’m spending today ... cleaning grout!  Did you know that there are actual blogs devoted exclusively to cleaning grout? Wow. And you thought BMEWS was dull and boring sometimes. Ha! But when you really need to learn what works, those grout blogs are priceless. Baking soda and lemon juice not doing the job? Worried about using Clorox? Should I scrub down the grout lines or across them? Grout blogs have the answers!

Allow me to save you time: Go buy a couple pounds of pure, unencapsulated sodium percarbonate. Put a double handful in a gallon of hot water, and mix it with a wooden stick for 3 minutes. Mop it out on the tiles, let it sit for about half an hour, then scrub it a bit. Then mop it up and then rinse things off a couple times. Ta da, done. Better than in your wildest grout cleaning dreams. [ and if you are dreaming of cleaning grout, you really, really, really need to get laid!!! ] Sodium percarbonate is the stuff that puts the Oxy in OxyClean. Except that OxyClean is only about 50% percarbonate, the other 50% being sodium carbonate - also known as washing soda and soda ash; ie, regular detergent. The pure stuff is about 4 times more effective than OxyClean, but you should wear rubber gloves and eye goggles. And you have to rinse things. Who cares? This stuff will clean everything, from wooden decks to shingles to concrete to dentures to yellowed curtains to killing the algae in your little pond to cleaning carpet to dishes, laundry, and you can even use it to sterilize your wort pot and your carboys if you are a home brewer or winemaker. For as big a revolution as Billy Mays started, he was really only selling you the mild version of the chemical. The only thing is does poorly is soften up soap scum in the bathtub.

But Google up the grout blogs and pay them a visit anyway. Those folks have put in a lot of effort, so they deserve some readership.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 11/14/2010 at 02:12 PM   
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