Yesterday while doing the job search, our mouse finally stopped working. It had died a slow death, and then finally moved its last cursor. We had a brand new mouse here so I didn’t have to run out and buy a new one and this new mouse, in the words of my husband, is the Mercedes-Benz of mouses. It’s cordless and reacts instantly to the slightest move. You know how you have something for a long time and you just assume it’s still working as well as it once did? Like when you get new glasses and you realize how much you’ve been missing? We knew our old mouse was slowly slipping away but we had no idea just how sick it was until we installed the new one!
Feeling like a tech pro after setting up the new mouse, I decided to tackle another issue. When I was scanning those writing samples the other day to apply for a job, I was reminded that our scanner wasn’t working properly. I was unable to scan directly to the computer, but had to put an SD card into the scanner (it’s a printer/scanner/fax/copier all-in-one) and scan onto the card. At one time I could scan directly to the computer but haven’t been able to for a long time.
I Googled some info and then got on a live chat with HP. They basically led me back to the website I had found on my own and I started working through those steps. I didn’t get the scanner working, but I did manage to mess up my McAfee Anti-Virus program settings. I finally figured out what I had done there and adjusted the settings back to where they were. Then I realized that when I installed McAfee for the first time last May, that’s what caused the scanner to stop “connecting” with the computer so I reinstalled the HP all-in-one software and now the scanner will work directly with the computer!
Don’t get me wrong I am so glad I got the scanner working but what should have been a 30-minute to an hour process became hours spent trying to get things working again that were working fine to begin with. Things start out smoothly and you start feeling like you know what you’re doing, only to find out that you really don’t.
When I was signing on for the live chat with HP, they ask you to rate yourself as far as computer knowledge. I gave myself an intermediate rating (between beginner and expert).
What the rating should have read was “Knows enough to do some real harm”. Know your limits people, know your limits.
