Missing?

Yep, I’ve been missing in action.

Every now and then I get an overwhelming urge to ‘re do Windows’.  Most of the time I shrug it off and keep on going, but early last week, I just re-did Windows.

For some time I have been keeping a special file directory containing all of the programs, utilities and settings I need. I keep the activation codes for the programs that I have bought online in this file. I keep this special file directory on an external drive (actually more than one), so after I did all the updates I copied this directory to my freshly installed Windows and put everything on it that I need/want.

Sounds like a good plan, but as everyone knows, sometimes things just don’t go as planned.

Nearly everything did go just fine. Nearly.  Unfortunately the thing I usually rely on the most had some ‘glitches’.  OK, a LOT of glitches.

I have just way too many email accounts. I want to keep them separate, so I use several email programs. Outlook 2010, Windows Live Mail 2012, Thunderbird and eM Client are my email programs.  (I am eventually going to replace Outlook with eM Client. I am still checking it out, but it is looking good.)

For several of my accounts, Thunderbird would not accept the passwords. Try as I could, just couldn’t get those accounts to work. Eventually I just had to go online and change the passwords and finally they all worked. As for Outlook, well I almost just forgot about it, as I managed to make a huge mess of that. Put that on hold and started over and it went without a hitch. I know better, but I kept trying when I was really tired.  After a good nights sleep, things worked better.

I thought I had a more recent backup of some of my files, but of course that was one of the things that went awry. However, the important stuff is always backed up daily, so I am now good to go.

So now that is all done, I'm back!