The other day I was doing the norm on the computer, surfing Digg, Yahoo, Google, blogs, Revision3, Flickr, ect. Then I downloaded a new program, thought it was safe, read comments reviews at multiple sites and nothing bad about it. After I downloaded it I scanned it Like I mostly do, clean. And it was, but it didn’t work well with 64-bit VIsta and some other programs already installed. So instead of fixing the problem manually, felt lazy, I just set it back with Windows restore point, it was one right before a Windows update, thought alright only one day loss of work, but haven’t really done anything on the computer worth backing up so I continued. And well when it restarted it hung on the green windows loading screen then loaded a blank screen with the mouse pointer, and after awhile the screen saver came on. So I was like this is just awesome.
And I have tried everything so fix it, unplugged all USB devices running checkdisk with install DVD and checking memory and all checked out, I have yet to reformat and have to redo everything since the backup I made with the built in backup to DVD isn’t recognized, great. I do have most of my music backed up, if I don’t I have the original cds I can re rip, so no big problem there. But I will lose all my videos and Vegas files since the backups I had were on my USB drive and someone stole it, don’t worry most files were encrypted. 
So for now I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 Live Disc until I can find a way to fix th problem, or at least back up my data since there is an error on the hard drive linux won’t let me mount the drive. I know that is what I get for not backing up in the first place, even though I did have one on DVDs but for some reason VIsta didn’t like it, even though it made it for me. 
Oh well I will hopefully figure out a way to get my data and restore my computer and get it back up and running. Good thing I don’t really need it this week, besides maybe a paper or two which I can type on Google Docs till I can get Windows to work again.