Still a techie, sort of

Got home late from Copenhagen last night. Sat down to check my emails and then got a message for Windows Update. Did the update and then no connection to the Internet. Too tired to bather I thought it might be some work going on with my ISP. It was after all close to midnight. Nothing had changed this morning, but I went to work still believing that my ISP probably was doing some sort of work.

Home again and still no connection, which is so annoying. I mean nowadays we do everything on-line and without no connection one is more or less lost. Scary isn't it? So I started to check everything and restarted both the router and computer. No change. Argh! After spending almost an hour trying to check and do different changes I gave up and called my ISP.

Going through all those "Press 1 for this, Press 2 for that" I got a message saying "Have you updated your computer with Windows Update the last couple of days and use Zone Alarm as a firewall and now you can't connect to the Internet? Microsoft have been notified about the situation and are now working on it. Turning off the firewall might help" OK, so at least I had an answer to why it didn't work and thankfully it wasn't my fault or something wrong with my computer.

So to start with I turned off the firewall to check, but still no change. Sigh! But then suddenly I remembered those updates can be uninstalled and the old techie in me came to life. Searching for a while I found the update and then did an uninstall. The system asked me three times if I was sure, and yes I was very sure. I tried to connect to the Internet again and volá it worked. The first message I got was "Please install the latest Window Update". No, thank very much...

So even though it's been a long time, once a techie always a techie I guess...