Due to recent occurances, Gaming has been difficult as of late. A Debilitating Virus that for some reason seemed to yield only the outcome of a complete reformat.. Including taking us back to Windows Vista. Initially I thought that this would be quite the negative thing, But I'm happy knowing that I can use Gametap again, All I need to do now is upgrade to their subscription based "Gold" service. Onto the matters at hand though
When I went back to Vista I lost all of the games and save information that I had on my hard drive. I had the idea to go ahead and "Back-Up" my collection and even my save files on my flash drive, But when I had my friend look at my laptop he stated that the virus had spread everywhere.. Except for the pictures! Ok, So the thing that I'm concerned about is that if I load up my flash drive maybe the virus had already spread to those files, and now they're on my flash? I don't know, mainly because I don't want to risk loading it up and having the virus wind up Infesting my Laptop again.. Anyway, that wasn't the end of it.
For some ominous reason, The internet connection at my house wound up getting all crazy and extremely slow. It allowed me to play some games online on my 360 still, but for some reason an error always popped up at the dashboard saying that "Some content can not be displayed at this time, It will reappear when it is available." and I wouldn't have access to any of the marketplace.. Weird.. All the while my laptop was running at a crawl. Of course, with my paranoid mind I was thinking all along that perhaps the virus had somehow spread to the other computers and perhaps even into our network or something! Directly affecting our internet performance! Flash movies, Youtube, Music Players, None of it was working properly, This even prompted me to think that perhaps even though I've put Vista back on my laptop, it still wasn't functioning properly, So what if it was nothing to do with my Connection.. Just my OS?
An overactive imagination indeed, For in two weeks everything went back to normal. I don't know what happened, but everything is working well now. I'm finally going to get back to doing some more web surfing and game playing. Despite these minor setbacks, my resolve is strong as ever!