blind vista

windows vista is locking up again... task manager is locking up after i closed the browsers that were locking up and closed a mess of svchost files... one of those refused to allow me access to close it or get properties on it or anything else and it locked up task manager when i tried... i can still type into the notepad and save it, but the computer just popped up with a "failure security options" dialoge box when i tried to get task manager to open again... now the task manager window is just a black hole in the middle of the screen blocking out the desktop behind it and it is not responding so i am forcing it closed... after closing, bow it will not open again and a security box issue keeps popping up when i try to open it... so i will have to reboot windows vista to use the computer... thanks again microsoft, for not letting me use my computer...

so i return and all is well and i decide it is finally time to back up stuff on an external drive and i decide to use kaspersky back up which is part of the security software and it seems to have four preset backup modes for documents, photos, videos, and music and all four are not selctable at the same time so it is a four step four click operation and it seems to be taking forever to transfer the files so i will try drag and drop next time and see if it any faster... computers require more time than they should to maintain them...

of course kaspersky decided it was time to update as i am backing up the drive so there are backup errors and slowing to a crawl... you'd think they would write the code so that the right hand knew what the left hand was doing, but not kaspersky... it may be rated one of the best protection programs, but it's really not very smart...

elapsed time 38 minutes 38 seconds and 18% is backed up... i wonder if it continues if the computer goes into sleep mode as it does when i walk away or does kaspersky expect me to keep using the computer for a few hours while the backup continues... the more i use the computer, the more errors i suspect because it can't very well backup files i have open... not impressed...

elapsed time 1 hour 3 minutes and 27% backed up... about 25 GB have been backed up... very slowly... i wonder if this is going to be a disk drive image for restore purposes only and not easily accessible files... kaspersky doesn't say much...

i went to sleep... it finished, more than 100BG used (for less than 50 GB of files), but i don't see files so i will drag and drop for easier access anyway...