

There are HOW MANY security updates?! Bargaining: I’d do anything to be able to use this thing! Depression: I’ve been uninstalling Norton components for 17 hours now. No, I don’t want a 60-day trial of Office 2007. Nothing can go wrong now! Anger: No, I don’t want to subscribe to AOL. Setting up a new computer goes through five stages:ĭenial: I’ve got a new computer. Which means a blank slate on which to impose my computer-using will. It’s about that time for me again: my desktop is a couple years part its prime and my laptop just died (no display, no hard drive activity, no wifi, and a recent history of turning off suddenly for no good reason – those are all bad signs, right?), which means the near future holds a new PC for me.
