Good grief, what a morning it has been. We sweepers tend to set up routines for our sweepstakes entries and it is upsetting when we are thrown off pace. I blame my computer.
For the past two or three weeks, the desktop computer was rehabbing in the repair shop. After a few false starts, it has finally returned home. I have the backup laptop (a fabulous win!) set up for sweepstakes, but I just don't like it as much as the desktop. It was great to see the computer fire up this morning, but disheartening to see that all my Favorites, and Roboform, were gone. Argh!
Past experience has taught me to be prepared. Every so often, I send myself an email note with all my vital email links. If I am at a foreign computer, or my system wonks out like it did this time, I can pull the note out of my mailbox and put the links back on my computer.
To re-do Roboform, I went to SweepsAdvantage (after re-saving the link to my Favorites) and searched for “Roboform”. It took me to their website where I was able to download the current edition. Once I typed my information back in, I was good to go. I also noticed that it gave me the option of saving my info to the system so that I could download Roboform anywhere and it would have my information. I don't remember this option on my previous desktop only account, so that was good to know.
The toolbars still don't look right, and my computer wants to go to Bing instead of Google now and the pages aren't opening full screen. And I haven't -wince – tackled iTunes yet. However, it is with a great sense of relief that my sweepstakes links and tools are back – I'm ready to go win something.