Gremlins!!!

Hi. So I know I haven't blogged in awhile. I just haven't had any sparks of inspiration these days and have been rather preoccupied in the maze of my own thoughts.

Yesterday, while tapping away at work making appointments for people, each of my programs shut down (without my permission mind you!). My workstation is rather sluggish as it is....and I always have about 6 screens going all at once, so it pretty much takes foreeeeever to log back into everything again. What a pain.

It happened again today, about 10 minutes before I was due to take my lunch break. Sweet. So I called the help desk (aka tech support) and told a nice guy named ---well I don't remember his name now so we'll call him James. The conversation went something like this:

"Thanks for calling the Help Desk, this is James, how can I help you today?"
"Hi James, I'm so-and-so, I seem to have some gremlins in my computer and everything just shut down on me."
"Sorry, what did you say?"
"Oh I'm having some problems with my computer, all of a sudden it kicked me out of all my programs."
"Right, but what was the first thing you said?"
"Gremlins got in my computer somehow I guess"

Well, he chuckled. Probably made his day a little more interesting.... If I didn't have to meet a quota for calls, I'd try to make people laugh more. That would make MY day more interesting. ;)

So I get the report back in an email (whenever we call with a problem we get an email from the techies after we hang up). This is what I got:

"So-and-so's computer has been randomly shutting down her computer; not freezing, or crashing, just begins shutdown procedures. The problem began happening intermittently as of yesterday;


Remoted into her PC, and was unable to find any recently installed programs that might be responsible; it could also be an auto-update on an application that could need restarting, but isn't prompting her.

Checked her installed programs and the startup programs (msconfig), but didn't see anything unusual; really didn't have any way of knowing for sure, So-and-so said there are 'Gremlins' in her computer; I couldn't prove otherwise (smile)

Forwarding to Remote RPC for review;
(demographics are up to date)

Haha. PS, the "gremlins" thing was my co-workers idea and I decided to run with it.