Silly Computers

They never like to work. I've been surprisingly lucky in getting mine to work over the last two years. Gary (my computer) has survived 2 serious viruses, multiple game crashes, overheating, battery issues, corrupt files and my attempts to run many high-capacity programs at once. I don't know as much as I'd like about how computers work and how to fix them, but I have certainly learned a lot about getting video games (especially old ones) to work on my computer. I think I've just been hella lucky! I've been trying to help a guy on YouTube get Dungeon Keeper 2 working for the past little while. The game didn't work for me either until I installed a NoCD patch, which fixed the game completely (though I still have no idea how). My problem however was that the game wouldn't even start. It would start loading, and then crash. Many people seem to have problems getting the game to work on Vista, which I too run. So I'm not exactly sure why my game runs nicely while others try the same fixes and continue to have issues. This hasn't just happened with DK2 though...Warcraft III, Half Life 1 and Dungeon Siege all have worked the same. Same with other programs like GIMP, Skype and some media players. I heard the version of GIMP (image editing program) isn't even compatible with Vista. So I think I've been hit with some sort of luck bolt. My computer runs fine (most of the time) and I've gotten a ton of things to work that others can't. Maybe it's a good combination of sound and video cards, maybe a well-built computer, or maybe I just installed/downloaded the right things at the right time in the right places...all by accident. Now if I were only that lucky in my searching for a job...