Recently, I did battle the Great MicroSatan.
Two of our workstations have been going for about 4 years without a fresh install of the OS. One machine started to act-up and it corrupted all the MSWord templates it touched. The documents it created were everlasting problems on other machines. The offending machine would hang-up, crash, and generally make everyone’s life miserable. The Great MicroSatan was wreaking havoc upon our little company.
It wasn’t hardware. It wasn’t the drives. Took out the drives and ran checkdisk on them using another machine, everything was OK. Diagnostics found no problems. It was the work of the Great MicroSatan!
Spybot-Search & Destroy found thousands of temporary files, but nothing untoward.
Norton found nothing.
Using CCleaner, I removed all the temporary files.
Using Little Registry Cleaner and then CCleaner I removed all the dross in the registry.
Nothing helps — oh, despair, woe is me — the Great MicroSatan is too powerful!
Then salvation appears in MSWord, Help>Detect and Repair. Great MicroSatan, get thee behind me, you are defeated!
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