manches ändert sich wohl nie

Some things probably never change….

This is the editorial of a computer magazine I saw this morning waiting for the doctor to call me in.

I had to go to the doctor again since my cold - sore throat, no voice - was much better on Thursday but it kinda hit me worse than before over the weekend. I am having sinus-headache and you do not want to know what comes out of my nose. I told the doctor there must be secretly hidden antra in my head to produce those quantities of snot. But I don’t want to spoil your appetite. So back to the editorial.

It talks about how you can tune up your windows operating system so that it runs faster and much more stable. And I remember that there were exact the same articles to find in pc-magazines at least ten years ago. During the last 15 (?) years. The only thing that changed is Windows 98 /2000 / XP / Vista.

... and sometimes it takes awhile...

... but it is right in time, always!

Yesterday I told you, how fast God sometimes takes action. This is so encouraging and I am still amazed.
But at the same time something else happened and I needed to be patient.

Earlier this year SP3 for Windows was released and for me it was no question to install it when I got the message. But when the download and the installing was finished and I was asked to restart my PC it didn't boot up! For me this is kind of a worst case scenario because... well, if you know something about PC's, I don't have to explain. And if you don't know it doesn't matter anyway.
I got it fixed somehow but since then my system acted funny and after a while I decided to format the hard drive and recover the system. But now the really worst case came up: I couldn't find my system recovery DVD's (windows xp media center edition)! I think I put them somewhere extra-extra to not lose them and I still have no idea where that special place is, ARGH! I only found the bonus system recovery CD containing some extra programms. Not very helpful.

A couple weeks passed - I had to go to hospital etc. - but in the first days of October I decided again to go in for fixing my PC and I did some online research. I found a place on the hp-sites where I could order a set of the system recovery version that was made for my PC. I think it was October 3rd or something when I placed my order.

After some days I went excitedly to my mailbox every day, waiting for the system DVD set.

After 10 days I was wondering why it didn't come by.

After 20 days I was concerned 'cause there were still no DVD's arriving.

One week ago I thought that very likely something went wrong with my order and I decided to fix my PC using an older version of XP Home I bought maybe 4 years ago.

So last Friday evening I formated the hard drive and installed this old XP Home Edition just to get started and went to bed.
The next morning I got up very early to continue. But as soon as I switched the PC on, nothing worked. Yes, the system software went fine but the sound didn't work, the internet didn't work etc. It took me some time to remember there was one thing I hadn't considered before: this old XP Home version had almost all of the drivers missing I needed for the hardware of my "HP Pavilion Media Center" and I had no idea where and how to get them. Downloading was no suitable alternative, 'cause internet didn't work.

I prayed hard and tried to call a friend a couple times (he never answered the phone) and a service hotline (called this one 2 times!) but they had no idea how to help me. After 4 hours altogether, I prayed again because I felt like all was hopeless now and went to my kitchen to have a snack. While drinking a tea I decided to go downstairs and get my mail.

Could you imagine the expression on my face some minutes later when I came to my mail box and found the HP SYSTEM RECOVERY DVD'S there???

Needless to say that now fixing my PC was a breeze!

And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear. Isa 65:24