Minecraft, coding, my computer, and angry. Four things that should not mix. Especially what just happened 15 minutes ago.
\nI wanted a way that something would automatically make a map backup. Angry helped set up a script to do this.<\/p>\n
However the script isn’t perfect. It launches, trying to find the server even if Minecraft isn’t running. He had me put a few things in.. things I believe caused a five-alarm scare.<\/p>\n
Started as a typical late Monday morning. Browsing Facepunch. Listening to Pandora. Angry’s in bed. Right at 3:30AM, my system locks up for no good reason.
\nI try to do a restart, notice how much longer it’s taking to boot. See a black screen. No desktop. No nothing, except my mouse cursor.
\nI click the left mouse button, both screens flicker, keyboard locks up, mouse is stuck with an hourglass cursor, but not frozen.
\nThen I see this transparent white overlay covering both screens.<\/p>\n
Everytime I attempted to restart, same..fucking..thing! I panic, grab my cell phone and try to send a voice txt message to angry, pleading for assistance. I know he’s asleep, but I was hoping when he’s in school, he’ll use it and hear my plead, knowing I’m fucked and have taken my computer up to the shop.<\/p>\n
What was good is Windows was still working in Safe Mode. I tried to disable angry’s files from executing, hoping that would stop this. Couldn’t get the Schedule Tasks window to show in Safe Mode.
\nSo I tried moving his files to a temp folder, thinking that if the scheduler doesn’t find the file needed, it won’t launch and stop this.
\nI was wrong…<\/p>\n
Again, to Safe Mode. I notice the popup to the right, saying I could restore my system to an earlier state. It recommended I selected the one after I updated Paint.NET.
\nDid it, system restarted… saw the desktop! YES!!<\/p>\n
My nerves are still on edge from the ordeal, and I’m concerned it may happen again. But this system backup was before angry had me make changes to his files. And now that I got the scheduler disabled for the backup task, it shouldn’t happen.
\nIf it does, I’ll be forced to take it up to the shop.
\n.
\n.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: It’s still doing it. Turned on my computer this morning, same thing I got. Called the shop. They told me they probably won’t be able to get me in today.
\nAngry responded to my pleading voice txt, saying he’ll try his best to fix it when he gets home from school.<\/p>\n
I tried an idea by inserting my burned Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit DVD into my drive. Attempted to do a repair. It recommended I do another system restore, so I did it. And now it seems<\/em> to be working OK.. for how long I don’t know. I’m doing Antivirus scans and everything else I can think of to isolate the issue. I’m hoping it’s not necessary to take it up to the shop and just fix this on my own.<\/p>\n I really don’t know if this is angry’s doing at all. It could be a virus. The fact the program in question launched perfectly before I ran Minecraft, is baffling. That’s why it has to be something else. Something I downloaded by mistake.<\/p>\n One odd thing about this. When I was doing the Windows Repair, it listed Windows being on my E drive instead of my C drive. Yet in Windows Explorer, there’s no WINDOWS folder on my E drive. Minecraft, coding, my computer, and angry. Four things that should not mix. Especially what just happened 15 minutes ago. I wanted a way that something would automatically make a map backup. Angry helped set up a script to do this. … Continue reading
\nAnd then there’s the ironic thing. After my system “recovered” from.. whatever this is, the Action Center flag icon popped up and recommended I back up my files.
\nI try, and when it lists the drives, it doesn’t show my C drive being in it. Yet it does in Windows Explorer. Also lists my E drive as the recommended destination for the file backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"