System Restore didn't work. I turned off automatic repair and FINALLY got an indication:
"A critical system driver is missing or contains errors."
File: Windows/sys32/drivers/pci.sys
Error code: 0xc000007b
How did system restore not fix A CRITICAL SYSTEM DRIVER?! That's the whole point of system restore!!!
Fuck, man.
I guess I'm taking it back to the repair place. At the very least, they say they specialize in recovering data if it's basically bricked and needs Windows entirely reinstalled. =_= I'd just rather have them do it than try to grab it myself. (Not the least of all because I don't know HOW...)
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I went to google search if my word files miiiight open in openoffice without me needing to individually open them all and Accept Changes, because I found out OpenOffice DOES have a Track Changes feature! I just don't know if it will compatibly open Word's version...
And all of my stories are in .rtf format, because that was the most portable, compatible, and easy for me with my limited range of programs and habit of uploading to fanfiction.net.
So I wanted to search if OpenOffice can open rtf's with tracked changes from Word.
Except I typo'd on "rtf"
and put into google
"can openoffice open rpfs"
and had to stop myself to laugh at the idea of OpenOffice banning rpf somehow.
Okay, I browsed the Firefox tag (sorted by recency), and I'm not seeing anything about this. Google search is only showing me things from three months ago. (This might be because I use the Web search by default, so I never have to see the AI nonsense, and I never give G*mini a prompt? Unsure.)
Anyways, if anyone else on Firefox is having a problem with YouTube not playing videos again: I updated Firefox (to 147.0.2), and that alone fixed it. :P
Dating this because it might not be such an easy fix for the same problem in the future: January 29, 2026.
These library computers are not conducive to proper typing posture, and my finger tendonitis is bad today, so I have to make to make this quick.
The computer problems escalated VERY quickly, to the point where I mostly can't get it to boot past the brand logo splash screen now, and if it does, it acts like the "/" key is being held down, thus preventing me from entering my user password to log in and, you know, actually USE the computer.
The held-down key might be as easy as getting a new onboard keyboard. (Probably something I should've done three years ago instead of installing KeyTweak, but tl;dr I don't know how to do that on a laptop.)
The not-booting-at-all thing, though... Well, let's just say I'm emotionally prepared to make this a data recovery situation. I can afford a new laptop if I make it cheap... It would just have to come out of savings. /:P
Either way, I'm definitely getting an external hard drive this time. I managed to back up the most vital files before it stopped booting entirely (stories, mostly), but if it can't be recovered for any reason, I'll have lost a LOT of data.
I do have an appointment at a repair place Saturday morning, so I'm going to bring it in. We'll see what happens, and I'll keep everyone updated.
Pray for my 9-year-old Windows 10 Lenovo G50. I'm not sure if those things are built to last, but I'd prefer to not have to replace it yet!
So my laptop forced an update, I've been trying to figure out how to get around this one but nothing worked. I've spent three days trying to make it let me shut down without updating. I finally had to restart it (and the only options were to shut down With Updates) because it started freezing with 100% of the C disc and RAM, and processor getting close to 100% too. Like, freezing so badly I get the crash pop-up that says something to the effect of "Microsoft Windows has stopped working". Yes, it says WINDOWS CRASHED.
I put my internet connection on metered YEARS ago to avoid this. Yes, I changed it to metered when I started using the Ethernet instead of WiFi. Yes, I set it to metered when we changed the network name/password.
But it apparently downloaded the update anyway. And gave me 3 days before it started trying to force me to update on shutdown.
I figured, I could let it run the update, and then roll it back, right?
WRONG!
I had it set to create a system restore point weekly, but apparently that didn't happen! Not even fucking ONCE!
I literally JUST installed the updates last night but it's telling me it did it over 10 days ago. Even my 3 days of stalling isn't 10 days ago.
They apparently put Copilot on Windows 10 now and we aaaaall know how I feel about AI.
Also my computer now takes a full 10 minutes after login to be USEABLE (typing this on my phone), so that's great. /s When it does become useable, the disk is constantly at 90% or higher. And I don't know why because the RAM is only at 50%. (Probably something to do with the DOZENS of "system host" processes in Task Manager now.)
The only sole singular Good Thing about this update is that they let you UNINSTALL copilot. u`_u
So I disabled the Windows Update service this time. I know ~important security updates~ happen, but I'd like to retain what little power of choice Microsoft is leaving us with.
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I just set my first custom keyboard shortcut! I finally figured out how to create a custom keyboard shortcut to open Flameshot. I've been trying for at least 3 days, maybe a week actually now that I think about it...
Long story short, I missed how in Windows 10, I was able to screenshot a portion of the screen, which would then be directly copied to the clipboard, ready to paste anywhere I want, with a simple stroke of Win+Shift+S.
Well, I recently learned the PrntScrn button functions a little differently in Linux Mint. I love that I don't even need a keystroke combo to take a screenshot; just tap PrntScrn and it's ready to save/copy wherever I want!
But that only works for screenshots of the entire screen. I haven't figured out how to edit screenshots as easily as I could on MS Paint, which I often use for cropping. So I found a lovely little program called Flameshot that lets me select a portion to screenshot (and it lets me adjust AFTER I set it, unlike Win+Shift+S which only gives one chance to highlight The Correct Area for the snip). I like that the screenshot'ing and markup are in one step too, it's very useful and I love it already!
What I didn't love is having to minimize everything (yes, this is annoying even with Super+D), to see the Flameshot shortcut on the desktop, and then click it it, and THEN choose the screenshot area. And I didn't want to pin it to the panel. (The icon's just obnoxiously bright and I don't want the entire bottom panel to be covered in icons.) But even pinning it to the panel and having to start it up is more steps than I want for my "workflow" (more amusements than work, really).
I figured out WHERE to set custom keyboard shortcuts within a week of switching to Mint. What I didn't figure out is how to set them to a PROGRAM.
The menu made it look like I need to find a file location that had the Flameshot .exe. Or something. Sites were saying .exe, but I think that might be a Windows proprietary file type? Could be wrong.
Anyways, point is, I could NOT figure out where Flameshot lives. I dug through the hidden files, kind of learning things about how Linux works as I'm exploring, but not finding the fricking Flameshot .exe. I did, however, find a Reddit post, in my frantic googling yesterday, that said Linux programs store files in a bunch of different places, unlike in Windows where everything's in its own Programs folder or something. So that discouraged me further. But I would not give up!
So today, staring at the shortcut on my desktop, I had an idea. Maybe the shortcut would tell me what file it links to, and I could tell the keyboard shortcut to use that same file location?
The truth was EVEN BETTER!
I right-clicked, hit Properties, and Right There was a beautiful little spot in the window for COMMAND. So I had my "!!!" moment, and tried something a little experimental.
Instead of linking to a file location like all the Mint forums said, I decided to copy that Command line and set the keyboard shortcut to run it.
Picked Super+shift+F (as an analog to Win+shift+S but with an F for Flameshot), saved it, gave it a name, and prayed I wasn't about to break Linux (again) as I tried it.
AND IT WORKED BEAUTIFULLY.
It's not the first custom keyboard shortcut I've set on the entire computer (that was setting my shortcuts in LibreOffice to toggle strikethrough and toggle hiding/showing markup), but it's the first SYSTEM shortcut~<3
I'm going to become a Linux power user one day, just watch! >:)
I did a small thing that somehow led to a massive fuckup and had to reinstall Linux entirely. {lD;;;
I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong? I'm trying to change the theme to something blue and transparent, but all the themes I've tried so far are only changing the... mint? menu??? I don't know what you call the equivalent of the Windows Start Menu on Linux Mint. Most of them don't even change the panel background!
But I wanted something that changes the applications windows, too! Mint/Cinnamon doesn't seem to come with an OOB way to change the colors like Windows does. (Although my w10 laptop won't let me customize the colors either, it refuses to click/activate the boxes once I set it o a high contrast theme, so that's. Weird.)
Anyways. So I tried to install a theme where the preview showed changed application windows too. The same exact way I've been installing every other one-- I download a zip (or some other kind of compressed archive format), extract it to .themes, and go to the Themes app to select it from the drop-downs.
Except as soon as I selected it, it froze everything but the cursor. Dead stop. Couldn't click anything.
So I tried to figure out how to undo it, couldn't, couldn't even get the system monitor running from the pinned shortcut on the panel, and restarted the computer. It let me log on, but the desktop environment showed nothing. Black screen. Just absolutely empty for all but the cursor.
Okay, that wouldn't work. So I figured, I could try using the Terminal to delete the file directory that I suspected was somehow incompatible and maybe (MAYBE! If I could figure out how), reset the Cinnamon theme to one of the default Mint-Y ones.
I wound up opening a command line, trying for ~two hours to figure out how to delete a file directory, but realized I couldn't remember the long name of the file directory I needed to delete. So even once I figured out which command to run, I couldn't actually do what I needed to.
I realized I could try to download the .zip on my Windows computer and peek at the folders, even if I didn't actually want to run any of them, just get a look at the file name so I knew which directory to delete...
But then it was time for driving lessons and I was developing a headache, so I decided to just re-install.
Spent about 2, 3 hours putting everything back the way I liked it, turning off ALL the AI flags in Firefox, getting the title bar buttons visible again, all that stuff.
So uhh. Even though I finally found a theme that looked like it'd do EXACTLY what I wanted it to do? I guess I can't use it. {:P
S i gh. It's looking more and more like I'll have to make one from scratch. (Or at least custom-edit whatever one I find first that actually changes the application windows, and just make them whatever colors/opacity I want...! But I'm no stranger to CSS, it's just a matter of figuring out which class/IDs belong to which part of the UI.)
