Well, all this talk about computer maintenance paid off… Saturday afternoon my home desktop was caught in a constant rebooting stage and, ugh, things looked ugly! Even my once-proven fool-proof backup of Drive Image didn’t pull through the first time.

We had dinner guests on their way in about an hour, so all I knew to do was to try a reinstall of XP. I thought I’d get it started and then entertain our guests. After they left, I was faced with an error message about a missing or corrupt hal.dll file.

Anyway, things looked bleak so I figured I’d better let my co-workers know I’d be out of commission until I could solve my own computer problems. Well, within about two hours, I finally found the answer on a Microsoft Support site.

No doubt, somebody was praying!

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