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WhoreosNMilf 11/05/18(Wed)10:31 No. 359

>sister's laptop is fucked
>spend 2 days trying various restore options
>all fail
>give up for a week and run XP in memory to at least get some use out of the processing power
>2 days til she comes home
>decide to get serious and try again
>still nothing
>suddenly, out of fucking nowhere SYSTEM RESTORE WAS SUCCESSFUL!
>mfw not a single program will run because "LPK.dll" is missing

>>	Anonymous 11/05/19(Thu)03:40 No. 361 Looks like it's off to the command line you go.

>>	Bob!!EwLGywAmHm 11/09/14(Wed)10:51 No. 402 Cool story, bro.

>>	Anonymous 11/10/02(Sun)05:58 No. 411 The important question is: Why were you letting a woman use a computer in the first place?

>>	WhoreosNMilf 11/10/02(Sun)09:37 No. 412 >>411 because she paid the $750 to purchase it

>>	11/10/05(Wed)01:22 No. 413 >>412 >750 on a computer >2011 ISHYGDDT

>>	Anonymous 11/10/07(Fri)02:34 No. 416 >>413 It probably had all of those new gizmos like an embedded webcam or a fingerprint scanner.

>>	Anonymous 11/10/08(Sat)20:16 No. 419 didn't you try a reinstall?

WhoreosNMilf 11/10/10(Mon)22:18 No. 429

>>416
webcam, yes
fingerprint scanner, no

>>419
Dell didn't ship it with one for whatever reason.

Eventually they sent a replacement hard drive that was pre-installed and a proper reinstall disc. Now there's just the problem of decrypting the backup files...

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