computer glitch

Today was stressful one

@rsa101 (40953)

Philippines

September 3, 2018 10:59am CST

Just as I arrived in my office and opened my pc, I noticed that the way it behave was already odd. I noticed my wallpaper was changed and my applications was somehow missing or is not the way it used to ran. I almost panic and felt that I am immobilized. Most of my works we’re there and I could not connect to anything anymore. But just right before I got home my instincts told me to find that system restore button. I was hesitant at first because It might worsen my situation. But out of hopelessness I decided to click that button. I saw the last time I used it was August 31 and hit the continue button. After waiting for about 10-15 minutes it rebooted and poof everything went back to normal. Whew that was close. I almost gave up but in the end i got a happy ending. Just wondering if my Tuesday will be a bit lighter than today.

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

5 Sep 18

That would have caused me extreme stress, too. I'm glad you were able to get it restored.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

5 Sep 18

True I guess instinct proved me right that I would be able t solve it.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

7 Sep 18

@DianneN I dunno but that day I felt that someone was telling me to do it. I do not know if it was my guardian angel or just my subconscious mind telling me to do it.

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

7 Sep 18

@rsa101 You are very lucky! I wouldn't have known what to do.

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@SIMPLYD (90717)

• Philippines

10 Sep 18

At least you know what to do when that happened.

Had that happened to me, I will immediately call our IT staff to see what happened. I am so not techie that is why and fears hitting a button to fix it, because I am not sure about these things.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

10 Sep 18

I was really feeling helpless and in a brink of a being panic mode. It just pop out in my mind to look into window restore function. I research about it on how to do it and just closed my eyes when I press to proceed with it. Good thing it did what it was supposed to do restore to Aug 31 setting the last time I used this PC that was in order.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

10 Sep 18

@SIMPLYD Our IT guy was not able to make a solution so I tried to do on my own

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@SIMPLYD (90717)

• Philippines

10 Sep 18

@rsa101 That's very courageous of you!

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@flapiz (23530)

• United Kingdom

4 Oct 18

Good thing you knew computers! Well done.

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@flapiz (23530)

• United Kingdom

4 Oct 18

@rsa101 That’s true. But most of the times it’s right.

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@sol_cee (38669)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

It's like someone played a prank on you.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

15 Sep 18

@sol_cee I guess so. Although I was in panic mode I didn’t show it and tried everything to solve it. Good thing something popped up in my mind and followed it.

@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

I don’t want to suspect but I felt like that during the panic mode I had yesterday. Good thing my guardian angel somehow whispered something to me to check the restote button hidden somewhere in windows os.

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@sol_cee (38669)

• Philippines

15 Sep 18

@rsa101 I'd say it was your instinct guiding you to do the right thing. Grace under pressure. hehe

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@ilocosboy (45155)

• Philippines

28 Sep 18

So relieved, I can relate, it also happen to me. Thanks to technician who fix my laptop.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

28 Sep 18

Good thing you have a technician to rely on. In my case I was the one who resolved my problem and it was a risk I took and it ended well in the end.

@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

28 Sep 18

@ilocosboy It was risky move since restoring a computer OS sometimes doesn't work because if the backup copy is defective already then it will not correct itself. I guess I was lucky that my backup copy was still a good backup else it would have been a different story.

@ilocosboy (45155)

• Philippines

28 Sep 18

The good thing is that you fix it.

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@nitirrbb7 (4317)

• India

9 Sep 18

Glad you recalled about the system restore point, but I guess you must have lost anything that you saved on your desktop in the between the restore date. I advice you get your PC scanned for virus and do make a backup of your daily work so that you don't come across such incidents.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

15 Sep 18

@nitirrbb7 Yes I was a bit worried about that but everything went well.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

9 Sep 18

Looks like there were no lost files. Checked all my files and they were intact and no changes. I noticed it happened when there was power interruption in our ofc for a short while. After l turned it in the settings seemed changed already.

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@nitirrbb7 (4317)

• India

15 Sep 18

@rsa101 Glad you din't have to face any of work being lost in the incident.

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@popciclecold (40215)

• United States

28 Sep 18

I bet that was an awful feeling, I probably would have panicked for sure. Glad it worked out for you.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

28 Sep 18

I was panicking from the inside but I tried not to show it and work as if nothing happened. It was just good timing that I thought of restoring from a week before backup so. I remembered that the Friday I left my PC was still good and working fine. I relied on that and took the risk.

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@popciclecold (40215)

• United States

28 Sep 18

@rsa101 So glad you remembered.

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

10 Sep 18

I'm glad you were able to restore things. I'm having some issues of late, can you tell me where I would find the "system restore button"?

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

11 Sep 18

I would have to look it up on my desktop pc again. I guess it was on your control panel and with the function back up and restore. But I would caution you to be sure that the date you will restore to is the date were your pc was working fine because it may not restore if you choose the wrong date.

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@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

11 Sep 18

@rsa101 Thanks!

@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

4 Sep 18

Relieved you have found the solution, indeed all that is unpredictable.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

First time to experience that. I was really clueless about what happened. Good thing i was able to figure it out and today I am back to normal but still catching up with the backlog it caused

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@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

4 Sep 18

@rsa101 Hopefully it can be completed quickly.

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@jobelbojel (36796)

• Philippines

23 Oct 18

Do you back up your files in case something happen to the computer system?

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

23 Oct 18

Well I have a few files that I upload to cloud from time to time. But I guess I am not backing up everything that I have on my PC.

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@jobelbojel (36796)

• Philippines

23 Oct 18

@rsa101 You can back up those that are really important at work or personal use.

@bluesa (15022)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

19 Sep 18

That can be extremely stressful. Good that rebooting helped.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

20 Sep 18

Yes lucky me. I was hesitant about it doing it but finally gave in out of desperation.

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@JudyEv (381928)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Sep 18

Oh, that would be very stressful indeed. I would have been in a panic too.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

Lots of backlog jobs i left last night hopefully thing will be better today.

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@JudyEv (381928)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Sep 18

@rsa101 I hope so too.

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@ridingbet (66854)

• Philippines

13 Sep 18

wow, at least you know something about computers. i am so naive of it so when there is a problem, i always seek assistance from my son

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

13 Sep 18

Well yes I was geeky when I was young. My father bought me a simple PC back then and it has roused my interest every since.

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@ridingbet (66854)

• Philippines

14 Sep 18

@rsa101 for me, none. i am always asking from my son if there are problems with my phone or even on desktop

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@ShifaLk (17811)

• India

17 Sep 18

O thank God, everything came out well. It can be really tough to see the computer or mobile settings touched/disturbed

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

17 Sep 18

True. All my works are stored there and if that fails it would be hard to recover and start all over again

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@ShifaLk (17811)

• India

17 Sep 18

@rsa101 yeah and that would be a big trouble

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@Letranknight2015 (52665)

• Philippines

15 Sep 18

It's like the world went down on you when ever something happens to the computer.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

15 Sep 18

True that computer was there for me for the past few years in my work. So I guess I was pretty worried if I will have to change my pc.

@jstory07 (148731)

• Roseburg, Oregon

10 Sep 18

I hope tomorrow will be a lot better for you.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

10 Sep 18

It did since I was less stressed. Although I have to catch up with lots of backlog of work due to the problem I encounter.

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@acelawrites (19272)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

Good thing your day was not ruined at all!

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

Well partially yes since i have a load of things to do but I wasn’t able to finished because of that

@Courage7 (19626)

• United States

4 Sep 18

I am so happy that this worked for you and it is very distressing when this happens I understand my friend. Hope your life is going good.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

For now I am trying my best to catch up with the backlog it created yesterday but at least my computer is working fine already.

@Sojourn (13833)

• India

3 Sep 18

Yaah.... System Restore is a nifty tool... but did you get to know the cause behind it ?

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

3 Sep 18

Unfortunately i did not know what the cause was. We transferred to a new office. For several weeks we encountered several times power outages.

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@freelancermariagrace (29342)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

Glad to know that the problem has been fixed. I just hope it won't happen again. If that happens to me, I would probably have a panic attack.

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@rsa101 (40953)

• Philippines

4 Sep 18

I almost panicked but I maintained my composure to not get attention from others. It worked for me since my mind did find solution to it.