Sad Apple

Z wrote:
>
> It keeps telling me how worthless it's life is now
> that I spend most of our time on the Internet. It
> says it has no reason to go on. I tried to cheer it
> up by running a few programs off line, but that
> didn't seem to help.

Ogr81 wrote,

There are several reasons your computer may be feeling blue. One may be an overabundance of microsoft software, which, when confronted with all the other types of software available on the net
just wants to be left alone.
Another problem your puter may have is defining a meaning for its' existance. Perhaps when confronted with all the information on the net, it saw its existance as futile, almost in an existential kind of way, and has become complacent with that absurdity. Perhaps if you confused it out of this complacency by putting up pictures of things that start with a cerain letter and .....oh....never mind....
Or perhaps you may want to upgrade your media card with the latest "cheerful" option, which has settings from 'pensive rainy day' to 'MANICALLY FREAKIN' FANATICALLY EXSTATIC!' I find the 'Everythings Groovy' setting is a happy medium, and not nearly as rude as the 'gay paris' setting.
Talk to your computer. Let it know your concerned. Reach out to it and really let it know its' not alone. Hug it. Tickle its' widdle hyphen until it's a tilden. Take it on walks or out for an evening on the town. Play dress-up games together, whatever, but you have to go that first mile for it. It needs you more then ever right now.
And finally, try a reboot. Hell, it works for me for just about everything.