A friend of mine did a full format and reinstall of the hard drive on my main computer. It runs so much better now, it's like it's brand new!

I lost a couple things in the sweep that came with the compy as "trial offers" that I never got rid of, but weren't packed in with the backup software. In a way, this is bad, because the stupid PaperPort thing that my Visioneer OneTouch 7100 scanner is supposed to use never actually outputs like it's supposed to... or at least not that I can tell.

But in another way, it's good, because it's forcing me to give up Corel Painter Essentials and start using GIMP. I already like it quite a bit, although it always amazes me how these awesome programs make seem bizarrely difficult to do something as simple as trimming a few pixels off the edge of the image.

Whatever, I can copy and paste it into MSPaint and do that. Shut up, don't judge me.