Occam's razor still works

Last edited Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)

A few months ago, my second desktop, running Win 7, decided that my user profile wasn't working. Not quite the Blue Screen of Death, but enough that I could only run the computer in safe mode. So I started looking online for a solution and found a bunch of them that practically required a doctorate in computer science to understand. I called a computer repair shop and they basically told me the only way to fix it was to dump everything and reload Windows, which of course would have been 10. My biggest issue was that I had some software on it that I downloaded and paid for, and I didn't want to have to buy them again.

So yesterday, after talking with some folks about removing the hard drive and using it as an external drive and finding out that I probably would not be able to use the software on it due to its not being listed in the Windows register, I decided to look for a solution again.

And voila! I found a five-minute video that talked you through how to fix it. The guy started off by saying he wasn't going to talk about what caused it or why it happened, and just focus on what to do. It was so simple it was pitiful. Five minutes. A few simple steps. I don't know why I didn't find that video the first few times I looked, but there it was.

Yup, Occam's Razor still works.

[Edit] A couple of members asked for a link, so here it is: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=win+7+user+profile#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f7b9a41d,vid:rtw5N6SQBpA,st:0