A random glance at our home computer the other day from the far side of the room made me jump with surprise. There moving across the screen was the unmistakable green trail of some sort of progress going on.
"WTF" I said to myself. (You will probably never hear me swear – but that doesn’t mean I might not think it.)
I dived at the PC.
Uploading Adobe Acrobat Update was just about to
... eh??..... what?..... finished!.....Gone!
"Bloody Hell" (That’s about as bad as it gets)
"Why’s it done that"?
The Brom PC is a ship that I run in a very tight fashion on the seas of the
Treblew. (And no, I don’t wear tights fashionable or otherwise – I’m definitely a stocking sort of guy)
"Updating Flash Player" announces the new box which appears on the screen.
"WHAT!!!!???, why...? What’s going on??"
The commotion attracts Mrs. B.
"Have you....?"
"..........No" she replies, cowering in the corner. "You know I never say yes to anything it asks. I leave all that stuff to you"
I stare at the screen baffled.
"Errr.............."
"Yeeees?"
"But I did just Hoover the keyboard"
"OH!"
We stare at the computer, I try a few applications and stuff, all seems OK.
"Wait a minute........Look at THOSE"
And here dear reader is what we saw.

Don’t ask me how, but several icons had lost their usual names and had adopted a code like identity. Including the blooming Recycle Bin. I soon discovered that the Recycle Bin is not like other desktop icons. Its name can only be changed via the registry. How very odd!
Various diagnostic tools and virus scans have failed to find any problems, and apart from the icon names (which I quite like), everything else seems in order.
We remain baffled as to exactly what happened. For now I will remain at the helm keeping a watching brief, and have issued orders that the vacuum cleaner is banned from keyside duties until further notice.